I just got home from leading my very first service trip for the Sierra Club (because obviously I need more hobbies), and I couldn't be more thrilled with how it turned out. I wrote the piece below with the intended... Continue Reading →
Two weeks in New Zealand somehow feels both luxuriously long and impossibly short. I experienced this firsthand during a recent visit to my mother on the North Island, where she's been living near Opotiki since 2015. Embarrassingly, this was only... Continue Reading →
It's usually true that the journey is more important than the destination, but when the destination is the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, it feels like it matters a little less how you got there. Whether it... Continue Reading →
Will and I made some newbie mistakes during our recent climbing trip to Cochamó, from getting ropes stuck while rappelling to having to switch campsites midway through the trip to not bringing enough food. The silliest of these errors was... Continue Reading →
During our 16-day climbing trip to Cochamó, Will and I took notes for things we did well and things we’d do differently next time. I thought it would be useful to publish some of the more general notes here in... Continue Reading →
It was bittersweet to wake up on our last morning in Cochamó in a wet tent. I am stoked to sleep in a real bed tonight, but also, I would stay here for another month if I could. The previous... Continue Reading →
Margaux Rhymes with Fargo 