Every entry, in one place.
Three years of field notes, essays, and the occasional gear obituary. Filter by tag, search the lot, or just scroll.
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Badlands by headlamp
Free BLM camping fifteen miles from the park entrance — cell signal that comes and goes, more pronghorn than people, and a moon so full we forgot we packed lanterns.
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How we pick a site
After three years of trial and error — mostly error — we have a checklist. It's not science. But it's saved us from a lot of bad nights.
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The generator question
We boondock four nights out of ten. Solar is not enough, lithium is not magic, and the generator question is louder than we expected.
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Three nights at Buckhorn
A Forest Service site we'd written off for years because the photos online looked grim. They were wrong. The site is grim if you're a sedan, gentle if you're a trailer.
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Valley of the Gods
Twenty miles of red-dirt road, no signs, no fees, no rangers — and some of the most cinematic light in the Southwest if you can stomach a washboard.
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