Dispatches from the field.
Long-form essays, packing lists, and short notes across fishing, cooking, hunting, surf, travel, and music.
The Slow Fire: Notes on Cooking Over Coals
Everything speeds up in a professional kitchen. Cooking over coals is the opposite discipline — and it changes how you cook everywhere else.
Six Days on the Bighorn
A late-season float through Montana, three broken tippets, and the brown trout that made all of it worth the drive.
Packing List: A Week Chasing Swell in Baja
Everything that actually earned a spot in the truck for a week of point breaks south of Ensenada — and what we left behind.
What We're Listening to on the Drive Back
The songs that made it into rotation after three days at the lake — mostly tape hiss, mostly a little sad, all of it earned.
Elk Camp: What Nobody Tells You About the First Morning
A first archery elk hunt, a pack list that mostly held up, and the lesson that comes before dawn on day one.
Three Routes Out of the City This Weekend
No fixed point this time — just three drives under four hours, each one worth leaving before sunrise for.