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Ideas Field Notebook Published Stories ideas March 07, 2011 On Patagonian Ice Dancing around on the toes of his crampons, he looks off the edge of our iceberg across a jumble of floating, bobbing chunks... February 09, 2011 In Patagonia... Its eyes go dim as he pumps out the last of its blood with a governing turn of his wrist... December 28, 2010 Dry Pinacate Scattered dead across the flats, they have already turned to bone... field notebook Spring, 2009 Utah I keep rehearsing in my head what it will feel like to walk straight to these cave-arches, congratulating the compass of my body, but poking down one bedrock draw after the next I see my compass is off... Winter, 2008 Colorado How many more children could we have? The curiosity will never end. They are each like opening Pandora's box... Winter, 2008 Colorado Late that night JT and I are running through the dark with torches outstretched, boots crashing through wind-hardened snow. We move fast, as if we had stolen this fire from the gods... published stories July 17, 2009 Perfect Quiet Searching for refuge -- and, perhaps, health -- in a sickeningly loud world. June 15, 2009 The Southwest's good ol' artifact boys You might have an imaginary picture of the pot hunters and collectors, a crew of dirty, well-armed black-market privateers roving the desert (in the case of many Western pot hunters, you'd be right)... June 09, 2009 The Memory of Water It is a hard and beautiful way to live, counting on ephemeral water holes like this. You have to be ready for long periods of waiting, traveling at night to preserve water in your body, sleeping in daytime shade...

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