In this article, originally written for Mountaineer magazine, I got to talk about poop and advise readers of the best places to sit back (on the pot), relax, and enjoy the priviest views in Washington. When you’re sourcing content for a story about outdoor...
Today we’re exploring a new category of bailer that didn’t exist before: The COVID Bailer. Naming that COVID is horrible*, it has given us new vocabulary by which to bail and, frankly, better excuses for our own flakiness. Are you guilty of being one of these COVID...
Wikipedia has a bias problem. Join the efforts to change the narrative about who belongs in the outdoors by helping create pages for these 18 people. My friend Allison Cusick is an Antarctic Oceanographer. She spends a lot of time in the lab and about three months a...
A few years ago I agreed to give an informational interview to a recent college grad as a favor to a family friend. It was not a success. As soon as we started the video call it was clear they hadn’t done their homework. They knew very little about me, hadn’t prepared...
Last year, we mutually agreed that we’re bailers. You bail. I bail. We bail. This begs the question: What type of bailer are you? Since it’s not a matter of when you’ll bail, but how, Theresa and I created a list of the different types of...
The truth about bailing is that we’re all guilty of it. You are a bailer. I am a bailer. We bail. It’s not a matter of when you will bail, but how. Which begs the question: what type of bailer are you? As defined by Urban Dictionary, bailing is to leave a...
