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Intentional adventure.
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For more than a decade, I have written, edited, directed, and produced stories for National Geographic Adventure, REI, Osprey, Cotopaxi, Arc’teryx, Sidetracked Magazine, RANGE Magazine, One World Play Project, and more.

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National Geographic Adventure

Here's Why Patagonia Is a Climber's Paradise

At the southern tip of the Americas lies magical, mystical Patagonia. She is a vast, remote, and storied region and home to some of our planet’s most sublime mountains—and extreme weather. Taking in the region’s spires of granite and ice in the flesh sets Patagonian climbing dreams ablaze. Standing among the glaciers, alpine lakes, and green forests at the foot of her unique and tempting peaks, adventure stirs—a tingling mix of fear and excitement. What exactly makes Patagonia a climber’s paradise? Climbers in four of the region’s most-storied locations share their thoughts.

Sidetracked Magazine

Sounds of Silence

‘Sh*t,’ I curse into the open air as my ski boot pops out of its binding and my ski starts sliding down the side of the mountain. I’m in a steep, icy spot, and I watch in horror as my ski flies downhill, crossing the tracks I’ve traversed below. The frosty wind pushing in off the Sea of Japan weaves through the loose strands of my hair and nibbles at my cheeks, which are rosy and warm from the uphill climb. Around me, the mountains and hills of Hokkaidō slumber beneath a deep quilt of ice and snow. The landscape is silent yet also alive.

Osprey

The Things We Carry

“What are you carrying with you today?” As I add my pack to a colorful, imperfect pile of backpacks surrounding a bare-bones, army-green hut in Torres del Paine’s Campamento Italiano, my friend Lindsay poses this question to me. She’s not talking about physical items, the gear stuffed within my pack. She’s talking about my thoughts. What’s traipsing through my mind?

RANGE Magazine

Explore Without Limits: Making Outdoor Adventure Accessible to People With Physical Disabilities

When Alvaro Silberstein was 16 years old, he traveled from his home in Santiago, Chile, to Cusco, Peru. In the Sacred Valley, Silberstein took the train from Cusco to Machu Picchu. Unfortunately, the train sat idle on the tracks for hours that day due to a protest. When Silberstein finally reached Machu Picchu, he only had 30 minutes to explore the famous ruins. “I always said, ‘I’ll definitely come again,’” Silberstein recalls. Two years later, that thinking shifted when a car crash with a drunk driver left Silberstein, then 18, paralyzed and in a wheelchair.

Traverse Magazine

Knockout: Meet the all-female sailing crew taking the race scene by storm

On a Wednesday evening in early June, there’s a slight buzz in the air at the Grand Traverse Yacht Club. Dinghies hum their way through the water out to vacant vessels, and as the various crews (around 40, in total) gather on their sailboats and get ready to race, they breathe life into the warm summer air. From a dinghy named “Chase Her,” chit-chat and laughter float on the breeze, as a group of women motors out to their sailboat, a J/92 with a sleek, dark-navy exterior and a white deck. One by one, the women climb aboard the boat, and their chatter swiftly slides into a finely-choreographed symphony of motions and sounds.