Mountains of Faith

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Deep in the Wind River Range, a thick red notebook becomes a hiker’s last words and a testament to a faith that proves stronger than stone.

(Photograph by Mike Turner)

Published as "I Cried Out Aloud For You" in the June 2002 issue of Backpacker. Chosen to be featured in Best Adventure Writing 2002 (Avalon Press).
Canyon Morning

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It was dawn. She knew it even before she opened her eyes; a softening of the light, a feeling more than anything. Being careful not to disturb me, she laid back.

Published in July/August 2002 issue of Backpacker.
Search for perfect beauty

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In Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park, beauty by any other name, or no name at all, is just as wild.

Originally published in the May/June 2000 issue of National Geographic Traveler. Winner of a “Gold Medal” as “Best Adventure Travel Story” in the 2000 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards sponsord by the Society of American Travel Writers.