Art of Adventures

Any time you share a nice picture of somewhere beautiful on the internet, people want to know, "where is that?" In the last several years...

Where have I been for the last two years? The last blog post on here was posted only a few weeks before the pandemic began. Since then,...

There are many food dishes I've cooked only once, then moved on and forgotten about them, but campfire pizza isn't one of them. From the...

In 2019, it was my first time finding and identifying many of the Pacific Northwest's classic mushrooms that are considered gourmet...

You know how our wise elders have those things they tell us to never do...? For example, "never fry bacon while naked" and "don't spit...

There are a lot of photographers and bloggers (like myself) who are sharing pictures, writing about the amazing, beautiful places they...

When the inspiration to go out and shoot with my camera was evading me for a few months, I gave myself some simple, fun, daily goals for...

For a while now, I've been twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the Cascades mountains to begin their thaw around the lower elevations....

It finally happened: I awoke in my truck out in the mountains, to discover that I had become very stranded in a massive snowstorm while...

Autumn is the ultimate season for comfort food. Not only do the days get shorter and temps a bit cooler at night, instigating a...

On Saturday, October 13, 2018, a dozen friends and I banded together to pick up an astonishing 2,500 pounds of litter and garbage off of...

When I first started hiking a lot, I used to pore over hiking books and online trail databases for hours at a time, creating detailed...

Have you ever been driving down the road and spotted someone canning berry preserves out of their truck in the middle of nowhere?...

It was pitch black out in the woods once the sun went down. I was sitting alone in the dark, in the driver's seat of my truck outside of...

As an avid hiker, the Sawtooth Mountains have been on my radar since long before picking up outdoors photography as a hobby. It wasn't...

My mind is still riddled with daydreams of the desert, and the last few days back at work have gone by in a blur. Last week, I was...

It's my second winter of living out of my truck in Central Oregon, and so far, it's nothing like last year! At first it seemed like we...

Two nights ago, I was parked in the middle of nowhere near Denio, Nevada... watching a snow storm pass in the night, and making a...

I haven't been blogging lately, although it isn't because I've been terribly busy with adventures or anything like that. Quite the...

Ahhh, autumn is here. It's that beautiful time of year when the air cools, the trees change, and days gradually get shorter. It's also...