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Haunting the Hedgerow: A Nomadic Harvest
Haunting the Hedgerow: A Nomadic Harvest
It can feel a little disheartening if you focus strictly on what failed to make it to the table after all that heart-work.  But this is the humbling, mental training... Read more...
The Gritty Anatomy of Lughnasadh
The Gritty Anatomy of Lughnasadh
As someone who thrives on moving through the natural world, I know the true aesthetic of late summer isn’t a sun-drenched meadow; it is choking dust, a baking sun and... Read more...
Grit and Gloss: Lessons from the Raw Sky
Grit and Gloss: Lessons from the Raw Sky
The sky above this heather is rarely silent.  Usually, it’s filled with the morning song of a diverse mix of birds.  Other times, being caught in a heavily military area... Read more...
Shadow Chasers: The Mirage of the Open Ridge
Shadow Chasers: The Mirage of the Open Ridge
The true master of the landscape knows when to drop below the canopy.  They understand that real resilience isn’t about stubborn endurance under a merciless sun; it’s about knowing how... Read more...
Nature Over Numbers: The Wild Heart of Training
Nature Over Numbers: The Wild Heart of Training
This past week was an exercise in mundane, but essential logistics.  A marriage is a team like no other and with my wife traveling to Strasbourg for work, I stepped... Read more...
NCT: The Best Friends I Ever Bought
NCT: The Best Friends I Ever Bought
You see it under photos of matching outfits, identical aesthetics, shared political rants, or niche genre-loving fans: "If you get this, you are my people." Read more...
Litha: The Ridge of Returning Light
Litha: The Ridge of Returning Light
When you have thrown yourself into nature for many years, it shouldn't come as a surprise when conditions flip from pleasant to hostile in a heartbeat.  As we gained height,... Read more...
Skyline Runner 81: The Cost of the Clouds
Skyline Runner 81: The Cost of the Clouds
The first thing I noticed at that start line was a distinct lack of vanity.  I stood surrounded by hardened humans beneath an iron-grey sky, everyone stripped of their weekend-warrior... Read more...
The Stones We Turn, The Gates We Find
The Stones We Turn, The Gates We Find
Some toil, especially that within soil, gives back as much as it takes.  When we step onto a plot of land with nothing but a spade, a handful of seeds,... Read more...
The Bones of the Coast: Finding the Real Yorkshire
The Bones of the Coast: Finding the Real Yorkshire
Half a million birds clung to the vertical sheer rock faces, circled on violent rising currents, or swarmed in massive, floating rafts upon the rippling grey sea below.  The sound... Read more...
The True Cost and Currency of Woodland Leadership
The True Cost and Currency of Woodland Leadership
Volunteering is a beautiful concept on paper.  In truth, it is a heavy burden on time that generates natural friction with the rest of our existence. Every hour spent teaching... Read more...
The Fifteen-Year Loop: Gravity, Grit and the Cold of Buttermere
The Fifteen-Year Loop: Gravity, Grit and the Cold of Buttermere
I slept in the van that night, a sleep of a man with no cares.  I awoke to the honest conditions of the fells.  The sun was out, but it... Read more...