A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.