Outside
Where I keep learning after class: in the mountains, on a bike, and in a small plane.
In the air
Flight training
I’m working toward my private pilot license in Salt Lake City, in a Cessna 172. Every flight starts with the weather and a checklist and ends with a line in my logbook.
On a bike
Bike touring
Spokes was the longest ride, not the only one. I’ve done several other extended trips. A tour asks for the day’s miles, your own repairs, and a place to sleep by dark, and it’s still how I’d rather see a place.
Stanford Spokes
In 2024 I rode 3,500 miles from San Francisco to D.C. with five other students, teaching workshops in 10 states along the way.
In the mountains
Midway, Utah
Home is in the Wasatch Back, so the mountains are close. I backpack, climb, and swim, and it’s where I go when I need to think.
Stanford Sierra Camp
In the summer of 2026 I led mountain bike rides for families and guests at Stanford Sierra Camp on Fallen Leaf Lake, and worked the waterfront as a lifeguard. Guiding asks you to watch the whole group and ride at the pace of the slowest rider.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra