Travel writing has always been a love of mine; it's like reliving a trip when you write the tale of what took place. I've spent virtually all my recreational time as an adult poking around mountains on foot or on skis, or floating on rivers, lakes or the ocean. Sometimes I even manage to get paid for it: in 1996, I convinced the Free Press that the staff should take turns hiking the entire Long Trail, Vermont's 280-mile-long, end-to-end hiking trail. We used the trail as a lens to view Vermont's larger environmental problems, from air pollution to suburban sprawl. Readers loved it, and so did the judges. I won our newspaper chain's top writing award for the three pieces I wrote.
"Hut-to-Hut: Vermonters Heed Call to Norwegian Ski Trails," The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press April 10, 2003 full article
"New England's West Coast," Sea Kayaker Magazine, February, 2002 full article
"A paddler’s paradise: Canoeists come closer to nature in Ontario’s Algonquin Park," The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Sept. 20, 2001 full article
"Long Trail Diary: Pollution leaves its mark," The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Aug. 4, 1996 full article
"Long Trail Diary: On foot through a changing Vermont," The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 30, 1996 full article