Leave Fido At Home

If you’re unwilling to take care of your dog at the crag, kindly leave them at home.

The Cartographic Life

Personally, I jounce around between all sorts of metaphors for life, but one I keep coming back to is life-as-cartography.

Climbers, Please Help Protect Caves

Fun as it may look to scramble around on the walls of your local cave, the risk of causing irreparable damage is just too high.

On Gravitational Gestalt Shifts

We all know Earth’s gravity is balanced out by opposite forces. Otherwise the planet would implode and become a black hole. What if we focused as much on the outward pressures as we did on the inward ones?

Farming Versus Entropy

A day of sorting agricultural materials leads to an introductory foray into the land of entropy.

Pitfalls Of Adventure Media, Part 1: Taking Yourself Too Seriously

If you really think about it, all this adventuring is pretty darn rediculous.

Drawing Lines Between Graffiti And Cultural Treasures

For those of us concerned with conserving relics of ancient cultures, drawing lines around what needs protecting is indispensable. How do we defend the boundaries we create?

Holding True, Come What May

Humanity’s collective mind has devised all manner of theories about the true nature of reality. How do we adjudicate between them? What if we can’t?

You Could Be Doing Something Else

The explanatory power of classical Economic theory is often overblown. Even so there are some tidbits that can help us make better decisions. One such tidbit is the notion of “opportunity costs.”

Metaphors We Climb By

Frivolous as our comings and goings on this planet may be, we can’t help but infuse them with great meaning. Trouble is, sometimes the significance we bestow is toxic.

Farther Still

A map of one hominid's journey through Deep Time

Meditations