Field notes
A photograph and a few hundred words from the road. Kept for myself, shared for the curious.
N 33°49′ W 116°38′
September 18, 2021
Up the San Jacinto tram from desert heat into alpine granite and pines — pads down, chalk on, working a boulder problem a mile and a half above the valley floor.
August 14, 2021
Trail-running season in SoCal — a fulfilling sufferfest with a view — and a pause on the ridge for a stranger framed under a lone tree, above the haze.
N 41°48′ W 87°36′
March 10, 2021
Snow settling over the city at dusk, a job offer in hand and graduation a few months off — and the small certainty of a run planned for the morning.
N 41°47′ W 87°36′
September 15, 2020
College-era simplicity — a secondhand piano, a few floating shelves, and a lamp — the kind of small still life a life has before it gets complicated.
N 47°03′ E 8°29′
December 30, 2019
Europe's first mountain railway, still climbing the same rack it did in 1871 — a red carriage, a toothed rail, and the Alps laid out through the windows.
N 47°16′ E 11°23′
December 27, 2019
A medieval old town wedged between the Alps, the Goldenes Dachl at the end of the lane, and the Nordkette rising straight off the rooftops.
N 47°33′ E 10°45′
December 23, 2019
The most photographed castle in the world, caught in the ten cold minutes after the tour buses leave and the light goes blue.
N 45°26′ E 12°20′
December 20, 2019
Off the Grand Canal, into the quiet rii where Venice stops performing and simply floats — and a gondolier who steers by feel.
