In 2019, it was my first time finding and identifying many of the Pacific Northwest's classic mushrooms that are considered gourmet edibles. I spent much more time hunting for mushrooms than any other year prior... and went a little "mushroom crazy," quite frankly!

Mushrooms have something very...

There are a lot of photographers and bloggers (like myself) who are sharing pictures, writing about the amazing, beautiful places they discover in nature, and encouraging others to get outdoors more. The original intent of creating this blog was, in fact, to share trip reports of the best hiking adv...

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 motivation!

After a few scenic road trips at the start of this year, there were a handful of months that went by where I was just working at the day job a lot and t...

Here we are--it's June already! Ever since spring began, it feels like I've been twiddling my thumbs and waiting for an eternity in anticipation of the summer hiking season to begin in the mountains. Then, the month of May came around, and suddenly I was swept away on an almost daily hunt for morel...

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 sleeping... something I have both feared and oddly fantasized about (hey, off-roading and vehicle recovery can be fun), yet I didn't think it was actually possible...

Autumn is the ultimate season for comfort food. Not only do the days get shorter and temps a bit cooler at night, instigating a rather instinctual need to eat more food... but also, here in Central Oregon, the campfire bans of late summer are finally lifted with the first bout of cold, rainy weather...

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 China Hat Road, in the Deschutes National Forest. It was something I dreamed of doing for a long time, until I finally set things in motion by announcing a day and...

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 lists of the best looking trails. I had (er, still have) a voracious appetite to find and hike all the best trails in the Pacific Northwest. One destination has remai...

Have you ever been driving down the road and spotted someone canning berry preserves out of their truck in the middle of nowhere? Probably not, because normal people don't do that. That's what I did though. As an experienced "trucklifer" and outdoors chef with a bit of a pioneering streak, it was su...