Between Ridgelines
Life off the trail: film photography, coffee roasting, reading notes, and off-season rituals. The personality category that makes the site feel like a person, not a content machine.
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Craig Childs Author: Reading the Desert One Steady Step at a Time
Craig Childs author guides readers through desert writing, field notes, and essential books, with a quiet trail reader’s...
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kephart horace: The Quiet Craft of Walking and Camping
kephart horace shaped American wilderness writing with practical camping wisdom, Smokies knowledge, and a clear-eyed res...
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Ray Jardine and the Long View of Lightweight Backpacking
Ray Jardine changed lightweight backpacking with practical ideas on packs, shelters, and self-reliance. Learn what still...
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Roasting Green Beans in a Boulder Kitchen
Jasper shares his off-season coffee roasting ritual in Boulder, exploring how the precision of home roasting and pour-ov...
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What I Read on the Trail — and What I Read Between Trips
Jasper shares his reading canon — Abbey, Muir, Strayed, Matthiessen, Bryson — and explains how these books shape his men...
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Why I'm Writing This
This founding post introduces Jasper Knox, a 42-year-old former internet and education operations professional who lives...
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My Contax T2 and Why I Shoot Film in the Backcountry
Jasper explains why he carries a Contax T2 into the mountains — the discipline of 36 exposures, the fixed 38mm lens, wha...