Three Crazy Chance Encounters In A Not-So Big World

Hi friends – I’d like to briefly depart from the outdoor adventure content to tell [...]

North of the Arctic Circle: A Look Inside a Remote Arctic Base Camp

Recently I went hunting on my hard drive in search of one particular photo. I [...]

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My First Trip as a Canoe Guide: Lost Gear, Death Threats and More

“Matt, help! HEEEAAALP! I am on the ground! I am stuck!” As Matt, my co-guide, [...]

We were a generation of loneliness long before the virus

I wrote this blog post on a plane while solo traveling, long before COVID-19 and [...]

To all the gear I’ve loved before

Disclaimer I hope you enjoyed this little poem I wrote about all my good-enough gear. [...]

For now, stay in. Then, go outside with all your might – the outdoor industry needs your support.

As coronavirus sweeps across the globe, countries have responded with varying degrees of lockdown. Here [...]

Greetings from Kuwait, a sandy land of good food and better people

This post was written in early January while I was in Kuwait visiting my boyfriend’s [...]

Confronting our Romanticized Illusion of Wilderness

When I was studying in New Zealand, I wrote about the concept of wilderness for [...]

Midnight Sun & Treeless Tundra: Unexpectedly Falling for Nunavut

I can’t quite place when my fascination with Nunavut began. What I do know is [...]

How the Heck Did I End Up Living in Nunavut?

Shortly after telling someone I lived and worked in Nunavut, I usually get asked how [...]

Fear, friendship and film on the Missinaibi River

I close my eyes and I’m sitting at a patio outside a Shopper’s Drug Mart [...]

Up River Without A Paddle (or My Campers) – A Tale of Rapids and a Not So Rapid Rescue

On the surface, this is a story of one mistake, two tipped canoes, two lost [...]