Archives for July, 2008

Volunteer Backcountry Bridge Builders

  • Posted by dylan
  • July 23, 2008

I was climbing at the popular Las Conchas trailhead in Santa Fe National Forest when my curiosity was piqued by two 45-foot beams on a truck near the highway. When I saw what they were for, I had to document the way these huge beams were being moved into the backcountry:

The bridge builders were from [...]

Drawing Lifemaps

  • Posted by dylan
  • July 17, 2008

Outdoorists value the outdoors highly, so we naturally pursue an outdoor life. What are the options? As I meet and talk to outdoorists, I want to map those options out for others. To take a first step in that direction, I created a new Lifemaps page to contain my maps, and sketched out the first [...]

Treat it like a dog

  • Posted by dylan
  • July 3, 2008

My first dog taught me something that I hope to apply now to my outdoor life. I’d like to treat the outdoors as a whole the way I learned to treat my first dog.
I dropped out of college after my first semester, hoping to snowboard more. It was really my first attempt at an outdoor [...]