GUNTER GLIEBEN GLAUTEN GLOBEN.
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blog stuff
A list of names for chicken wing restaurants. All rights reserved.
I buy an old photographic plate while a climbing legend gives me the stink-eye, and then I start talking about mines 10 years later.
Look I’m not proud of this but whatever gets you through the day, right? Bwa ha ha!
Get a load of this fucker doing 60 on the wrong side of the freeway, nearly killing us.
Serious and important. All good.
The Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, vicinity of North Bend, Washington (9/9/22)
The orange glow on the rocks is sunlight filtered through wildfire smoke on a Red Flag Warning weekend.
Below: Lower Park Lake; Mason Lake; Lemah Mountain over Spectacle Lake.
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mountains, lakes, etc.
book stuff
I talked to the legendary director about his novel, Consumed. Just don’t call it “body horror,” like I did.
Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann discusses the Osage Indian Reservation murders, stolen oil, and the early days of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
If there’s one book that might make you a Bigfoot Believer, John Zada’s In the Valley of the Noble Beyond could be the one.
Dive deep into the Expanded Porky's Universe—and more!—with these classic movie tie-in novelizations.
I was anxious about talking to the Wilco frontman about his autobiography, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back). It shows!
The author of The Lost City of Z goes to the ends of the Earth in search of another doomed adventurer, Frank Worsley
It’s not easy to get the straight story out of David Lynch, but Kristine McKenna did it in her collaboration with the incomparable director, Room to Dream.
It’s spring, so you’re going on a Bigfoot hunt. Here are seven highly rated books to ensure your success.
Greg Prato—author of The Yacht Rock Book—presents his top 10 yacht rock album covers: a cavalcade of bare chests, feathered hair, and stylized ampersands.
Author Joe Hagan on Rolling Stone magazine, Jan Wenner, and the dawn of the modern celebrity.
John Hodgman tells me how long it will take my family to move on after I die. (“Sooner than you think.”)
Marc Maron talks about his influential podcast, WTF, and his book Waiting for the Punch. Do it up.
Wherein I revisit my first literary love - The Hardy Boys - and discover some weird shit.
The Mountain Goats’ frontman wrote a novel, and it’s creepy as hell. I asked him three questions about it.
Leif Whittaker grew up in America's premier mountaineering family. What does that do to a person? As it turns out, enough to write a book.
Many are saying these are the essential items to make your administration amazing, just really unbelievable. [Written before the 2016 election.]
A Q&A with American Heiress author Jeffrey Toobin on the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the SLA, and the Swinging ‘70s.
Peter Pomerantsev — author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia — saw it all coming.
The first American to summit Mt. Everest shares his memories of the expedition on the eve of its 50th anniversary. Includes yeti content.
I used to write about books, interview authors, and go to cocktail parties. Here’s some of that.
We have a project on Orcas Island. It makes for a good picture now and again.
Left: Starfish during the wasting disease epidemic, Fishing Bay (Orcas)
Below: Ferry arriving at Shaw Island; apple barn (Orcas); The Kitty B at Lieberhaven Resort (Orcas)
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san juan islands
hiking & backpacking stuff
Eating too many cherries on the trail is a disaster and my glasses are hilariously small.
I’ve been backpacking with my buddy Jay (and others) off and on since 1984. Sometimes I write old trip reports. All disasters and near-disasters fully disclosed.
NB to tablet enthusiasts: Due to the intentional limitations of Squarespace templates and my subsequent tinkering, readers may find formatting idiosyncrasies. It might be fine. Honestly I have no idea. If not: sorry, dad!
book stuff
I used to write about books, interview authors, and go to cocktail parties. Here’s some of that.
backpacking
I’ve been backpacking with my buddy Jay off and on since 1984. Sometimes I write old trip reports. All disasters and near-disasters fully disclosed.