Music, Outdoors, Life
Profile on prominent figure in music, outdoor recreation, environmental resilience.
The most cold-hard-facts line of 2025 was born from the grocery store checkout line. “I don’t know if I’m getting better / If I’m getting worse / But I’m getting by” I mean, have truer words been spoken for these times? That honest-ass line is the chorus of “This Kind of Rain,” a sunshower country… Continue reading Blue Cactus: Bound to Make You a Believer
“Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” That line comes from Miguel Cervantes’ seminal novel Don Quixote in 1615 – namesake and phonetic inspiration for this wonderful site – and a version of this sentiment has proliferated for centuries in a number of civilizations. We’re a social species and much… Continue reading What’s So Magical About Magic Al?
“Still on.” That’s the two word answer I got over email from Will Rodgers, Pilot Mountain State Park Crag Steward, at 6:45 in the morning on April Fool's Day. I had emailed him asking if we were still meeting up at the park with thunderstorms in the forecast. I was somewhat hoping it’d be canceled.… Continue reading Stewarding with the Carolina Climbers Coalition
You don’t move to Lake Tahoe for the money. You move there because that big-ass alpine lake looks like the best summer of your life and those gorgeous mountains look fun as hell to ski in the winter. You stay – always a couple years longer than you thought – because there’s an existential gravitas… Continue reading Squid and Friends: All Fun, No Money
Take a deep breath, close your eyes. I need you to imagine you are a small child, barely old enough to stand, let alone walk or speak. You're too young to understand where your parents are but you know they aren’t there. Some say they might have been in a car accident and they aren’t… Continue reading Connor Ryan’s Home in the Peaks
Normally, the last thing I’d want to do after a 45-hour work week is spend my weekend cutting brush and trimming trees on the side of a mountain in the summer heat. But this weekend wasn’t normal, it was Gladefest and I was more than happy to drive up to Rabbit Ears pass near Steamboat… Continue reading Gladefest at Bluebird Backcountry
The thing death robs us all of is the gift of new experiences. Until that fateful point, it seems life unfolds as the universe is, ever expanding outward into new uncharted waves in space and time. Every day, every minute, every second provides a new opportunity for life to exist and bring something new to… Continue reading Sound of A Memory: People Under The Stairs
DLZMKSBTS' shit is comfy. It's the first thing I think as the Denver beat maker and ushers me onto his couch, offering up a small menu of weed to enjoy and commiserate over. The couch is plush and inviting, presiding over a serene apartment lush with greens, browns and blues. Seinfeld plays on low, his… Continue reading DLZMKSBTS Is Layered AF
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