By all accounts, he wasn’t an easy man, my grandfather. He pushed hard, asked a lot, expected excellence - or at least excellent effort - from all around him. But, also by all accounts, he didn’t have the easiest beginnings, so his idiosyncrasies can at least be understood, if not justified. Sadly, I never met […]

As I wrote Tuesday’s “Mountains of Memories” post Do Hard Things, the photo of my friend Peter atop Bienn a’ Chruliaste made me think not just of the beauty of wilderness solitude, but also the loneliness and isolation felt by me - perhaps by many - during our current challenging times. So, a Thursday Thought […]

This post was written a couple weeks back, but I mistakenly saved it as a draft rather than publishing it. So, here it is, belatedly! Yesterday, I pored over photos from a decade ago, high in the remote, wild Picket Range of Washington State, stitching together a 350-degree panorama of these magnificent mountains from Luna […]

September 28, 2023, summit of Beinn a Chrulaiste, Glencoe, Scotland. A client and good friend of mine - we’ll call him John - has a motto: Do hard things. For most people, it would be just that - a motto, a slogan more political than practical, more aspirational than actionable. But not for John. In […]