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Personal Blog Covering the Environment, Sports, and Travel
ABOUT
I AM
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.... an environmental educator, thru-hiker, ex-wilderness guide, soccer fanatic, trail runner, brother, soccer and baseball lover, solar installer, and inspiring horse enthusiast (even though I haven't taken The Horse Course yet).
At The College of Wooster, I built long-lasting connections while expanding my world a hundred fold. I studied the twisting tectonic plates of and in New Zealand, chased disappearing glaciers in Alaska, and unearthed 520 million year old trilobites in Ohio creek beds. After that, life got a bit more complicated, but the adventures didn't end.
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In recent years, I've worked many different gigs, moved around the country, added to my list of best friends, and spent a lot of time on the trail. Most impactfully to my mind and health, I found comfort and inspiration in nature, which recharges my battery and fuels my imagination and sense of wonder.
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Since 2019, I thru-hiked the PCT and Wind River High Route, failed on the Grand Sierra Traverse, and designed and completed my own version of the Weminuche High Route. Day to day, I continue struggling to navigate climate anxiety and the role I can play to create a better, more sustainable world.
While earning my Master in Environmental Management from Western Colorado University, I worked with diverse stakeholders in rural and highly urbanized communities to explore the interplay of humans with the natural world. I facilitated workshops with natural resource managers, local business owners, and community leaders to find solutions to complex problems. I worked within committees to strategically plan and implement on-the-ground improvements to critical infrastructure, paving the way for wide-reaching and ambitious scientific research. Most of all, however, I learned how much I truly don't know about this big and mysterious world.
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Each day is a chance to uncover more of the world's wonder. That is the real reason I created this website. Understandably confined indoors or to one community, I lust for wandering the Scottish Highlands, for understanding the copper deposits of the Keweenaw, or for cursing Hertha Berlin's stubborn tactics on the football pitch.
Sweet release.
ORIGINS
I hail (HAIL!) from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I grew up outside, playing every sport imaginable until my legs gave out. Rain or shine. Not even an eye patch could slow me down.
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My most precious memories remain in the Upper Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior, collecting beautiful rocks, getting bit by black flies, and dodging black bears.
