Mountains

Bugs, Sweat and Bushwhacks is a collection of my written adventures and thoughts through photography, athletics, and conservation

A Grand Illusion

The Illusion Peaks were first ascended in September of 1961 by by Dick Culbert, Ronald Hatch, Monte Lasserre, and Arnold Shives. Since...

Of Ridge lines, Rivers and Everything In Between

Last Summer (2020) my good friend Justen Bruns and I completed a fifteen hour push of the North and Southern flanks of Mount Tantalus...

Lost in Translation

As Katarina Kuba and I toed to the start line of the Bokami Zapadnych Tatier, a well recognized Slovakian ski mountaineering race, a wide...

Backyard Exploration

Moving through mountains in tight clothes with feather weight skis, boots as light as my runners, and constantly looking ahead to hasten...