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“Temporal Gulch” tells the story of a hike I took with my friend, Lisa, a few years back to find an unnamed peak in the Santa Rita Mountains. The object of our adventure was to use an old guidebook to navigate to the peak. The area really caught my interest, so I paired the story…

Grateful to the folks at Deep Wild for sharing my short story, “Wilderness is Not a Luxury.” The story imagines a guy with a lot of work stress trying to navigate the backcountry alone, something that may be relatable to those of us who have been in that position. Get a copy here – https://deepwildjournal.com/

A while back, a friend and I explored the Alamo Tunnel on Tucson’s east side. It’s a long drainage that channels the Alamo Wash under the city. The tunnel is more than a waterway – it is a home, a canvas, and a repository for the city’s forgotten things. I composed an essay of sorts…

I love motion-activated trail cameras and often post my footage online via my YouTube channel, Lo-Fi Outdoors, and on the /r/trailcamera subreddit on Reddit.com. My footage caught the eye of journalist Hillary Hattenbach, who interviewed me for her article “At-home trail cameras: Capturing the secret animal reality show in your own back garden.” The article…

One Halloween when I was in high school, some friends and I came into the possession of an obscene quantity of eggs which we threw liberally at anything and everything, including this one kid who egged us and refused to run away when we returned fire with overwhelming force. The details of that night are…

Southwestern conservation organization, Sky Island Alliance, is overseeing a survey of decommissioned forest roads in the Huachuca Mountains. Volunteers like me and my compatriots use an app called Field Maps to document the conditions of unpaved roads the Forest Service has deemed no longer in use. In doing so, we gather information about the road…

Objects of Our Depiction: A Material Culture Survey is my new material cultures studies project that asks contemporary writers to answer questions about tools, toys, keepsakes, art, and other objects in their work. That survey can be found here. Material culture often refers to an angle of scholarship in which academic readers extrapolate on the…