Blue Marble Earth

26 Jan 2026

In October 2025, Lego dropped a set that perfectly combined my two formative childhood obsessions: building kits and the minerals exhibit at the Pink Palace Museum in my hometown. My face transformed

14 Sep 2025

In August 2025, work sent me on my most far-flung environmental due diligence site visit yet. I flew into Denver and drove four hours to the town nearest the site that had a hotel. This town was

24 Aug 2025

For Part 1 of this series, check out my previous post on Goat Rocks Wilderness Backpacking. I brought up a laundry list of geology questions at the end of my last blog post about the Goat Rocks

23 Feb 2025

When I first moved to Seattle, I bought a map of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness at REI and was so spoiled for choice that I barely looked elsewhere. But in summer 2023 some friends regaled me of their

16 Sep 2024

In my last post, I chronicled the 2023 backpacking trip to Deception Pass, Marmot Lake, Jade Lake, and Tuck Lake with my twin sister and OG hiking buddy, Heather. Now I get to nerd out about all the

23 Aug 2024

Like many of my Twin Trek posts, this is a two-parter: this is the travelogue post, with a geology post yet to come. Possibly multiple geology posts. In February 2023 I kicked into planning mode for

25 Jun 2024

I realize I haven’t posted in almost a year now, but I promise I have a good reason. You see, last summer two very important new (to us) rocks came onto the scene. My wonderful hiking companion and

7 Aug 2023

In my last post I explored how the construction of dams along the Cedar River led to Rattlesnake Lake swallowing the small town of Moncton in 1914. The dam-related disasters didn’t stop there, and

25 May 2023

My girlfriend and I put up with the crowds to spend a spring-like January afternoon hiking up Rattlesnake Ledge, one of the Seattle area’s best-known day hikes. The trail was a delightful conga

14 Jan 2023

So I dropped a lot of hints in my post about my Lake Ingalls hiking adventure about how I made incorrect assumptions about the rock. Every geologist is biased by the rocks they studied first. For me,