I guess it was in my blood straight away. I took my first breath in sight of Lake Superior’s icy waters in the clutches of a March snowstorm. My parents then lugged me to a crackerbox house in quiet, wooded countryside of far north Wisconsin, shoveling through cream puff drifts to the front door. From there, I piled up memories as a country kid, roaming the incomparable North Country and later my heady college years exploring up high in Colorado’s Rockies. I’m a vagabond hiker, backpacker, and cyclist, usually found on a hiking trail somewhere or with a bike and a wide open road (or sinuous dirt trail).

A long-ago father-son ride to northern Wisconsin, in a t-shirt, cut-offs and reject basketball shoes, stoked a passion for what’s Out There and writing about it. Years later I studied natural resources at Colorado State, in spite of irresistible alpine distractions (I might have skipped a class or two to go skiing) and somewhere in the fray, wrote a little mountain biking book. With an ambitious head of steam, I’ve released at least one title every year since, notched years of publishing experience and a stacked portfolio of books, articles, ghostwriting, and monthly news columns.

Among my work with some of the country’s top publishers are more than 20 where-to titles, regular appearances in Backpacker, Outside, Bicycling, Wisconsin Trails and other award-winning magazines, big names like Nat Geo and Forbes, and regional news columns. I also partner with some of America’s most influential business leaders to write their riveting stories, including an influential look at sustainability efforts around the world. Other efforts include publications in the sports world, government agencies, memoirs, historic preservation, and climate change, like Small Grass Big Earth, a student-led conservation movement to reclaim millions of acres of America’s lawns. And don't miss my first children’s book, a fun outdoor learning adventure story with a great message and start of a nationwide series.

All told, I write for and my work has been featured in places like this:

My home base is…..wherever I happen to be. I roam and write where my heart is, in places like Wisconsin’s woods, Colorado’s mountains and easy-goin’ southern Minnesota. 

Come along. I'll be Out There, living life at a higher latitude. 

Cheers.