🏔 Notes from the Mountain

The Rabbits Almost Won • Notes from the Mountain

The rabbits had every reason to believe they'd won. They underestimated one very important thing.

Sometimes You Just Have to Look Up • Notes from the Mountain

Sometimes the most interesting things aren't far away at all. We just forget to look up.

Milestones Have a Way of Making Us Pause • Notes from the Mountain

Every birthday comes with another candle. Milestone birthdays come with something else...a reason to look back, appreciate the journey, and think about the adventures still waiting ahead.

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 11

For twelve days, almost everything around me felt unfamiliar. Not just the obvious things. The plants. The color of the soil. The smell after the sun came up. The way people made use of what the l...

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 10

There are a lot of decisions that go into making soap that customers never see. One of them is ingredient selection, specifically olive oil. When I first started making soap, olive oil was one of t...

The Goats Might Be Onto Something • Notes from the Mountain

The goats never seem to be in a hurry. Somewhere between making soap and chasing deadlines, I started wondering if they might have life figured out better than the rest of us.

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 8

Mt. Harvard (14,421') as seen from Mt. Oxford (14,158') I’ve been thinking a lot lately about time. Not in a dramatic way. Just in the quiet realization that at some point, life stops feeling like ...

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 7

Lehigh Gorge, PA There’s no place like home. I grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, back before smart phones, social media, and constant notifications pulling everyone in differ...

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 6

I’m a planner. Even when something looks spontaneous on the outside, there’s usually been a lot of thought behind it. The spring lineup is no different. Every bar was mapped out months in advance:...

Notes from the Mountain - Issue No. 5

Blue Lakes - Breckenridge, Colorado There are places you don’t notice right away. Not because they aren’t there, but because they’re hidden. We drove up Peak 10 in Breckenridge, CO a few summers a...