Feature Essays
Driving Miss
Patience May 2003
When everything goes wrong with your ill parent
[7,600 words]
Expedition
Behavior February 2000
An outdoor educator's foray into the world of
youth-at-risk wilderness programs [12,000
words]
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Essays on the Outdoors
Backcountry Travel
[Jump down to "Outdoor Education"]
Memoirs of a Permit
Applicant May 1999
Will wilderness business learn from wilderness
travel? [1500 words]
After The Adventure
December 1990
Meeting the challenges of going home.
[900 words]
Embrace Tiger,
Return To Mountain February 1989
Tai Chi as an ever-available link to the outdoor
world [7600 words]
Outdoor Education
[Jump up to "Backcountry
Travel"]
You Are
Professional, So Stop Acting That Way
May 2001
Should outdoor adventure guiding be recognized
as a "profession?" [2500 words]
Getting
An "A" In Adventure June 1999
The perils of overuse of the school metaphor
in "outdoor education" [4500 words]
Wilderness
and The Adjacency Mathematics of Bathroom Tiles
February 1993
A fanciful journey in the equations of risk management.
[900 words]
Coyote
Goes To NOLS October 1991
A humbling experience for the legendary trickster.
[600 words]
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General Topics
The Toaster Warrantee
Guarantor March 2001
Some people are just harder on appliances than
others [1000 words]
Learning
To Think Like A Canadian March 2000
Reflections on testing for citizenship
[800 words]
Having A Kid
September 1999
Looking back at eight months
[1450 words]
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