Field Notes
Travels
Destinations, routes, and journals from a life built around getting outside — with a map you can click and a timeline you can follow.
Alaska
Glacier valleys, midnight light, and the wildest road miles in the country.
Interactive map
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Travel timeline
2026
Alaska road route
Two weeks north with a camera and a very full trunk.
2025
Hawaii island hopping
Coastal hikes, sunrise swims, and volcano country.
2024
National park circuit
Nine parks on one long western loop.
2023
First travel assignment
A new city every few months — and a hike in each one.
Travel journal
Above the clouds at 5 a.m.
The alarm is brutal and the payoff is unfair. Notes on why I keep doing alpine starts.
Charting in a new hospital
Every unit has its own rhythm. Here's how I learn it fast.
Ferry days
Slow travel in Alaska is the point, not the delay.
Favorite hikes
- • Harding Icefield Trail
- • Kalalau lookout ridge
- • Sky Pond
- • Mount LeConte
- • Angels Landing
- • Devil's Bridge
National parks
- • Denali
- • Kenai Fjords
- • Haleakalā
- • Rocky Mountain
- • Zion
- • Great Smoky Mountains
- • Glacier
- • Arches
Road trips
- • Anchorage → Seward → Homer
- • Pacific Coast Highway
- • Blue Ridge Parkway
- • Utah's Mighty Five
Travel tips
- • Book the flexible fare; weather wins.
- • One camera body, two lenses, no regrets.
- • Always pack a rain shell and electrolytes.
- • Ask locals where they hike, not where tourists hike.
Bucket list
- • Patagonia
- • New Zealand's Great Walks
- • Iceland ring road
- • Japan in autumn
- • Dolomites
- • Faroe Islands
Future adventures
- • A winter in the Alps
- • Sea kayaking Prince William Sound
- • Photograph the aurora properly