Logbook

Personal notes shared with an inner circle of co-travelers pursuing their own frontiers.

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A Deep Dark Hole

Every task completed seems to create two more. At some point, the checklist stops feeling like progress—and starts feeling like the ground giving way beneath your feet.

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Not Experiencing the Climate

A winter that never arrived. A snowpack collapsing below anything on record. We experience weather, not climate — until something breaks. And by then, it may already be too late.

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The Calm Before The Storm

Trump said it. He was talking about something else. But the words landed differently — after Artemis, before a cyclone, standing alone on a beach at the edge of the Bay of Islands.

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Seeds

Listening to people talk about climate—their fear, confusion, and lived experience—may be more than storytelling. It may be a way to rebuild legitimacy where institutions have stopped listening.

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Kerikeri — Storm — Resonances

Between a tropical storm that derailed the refit schedule and the slow work of convincing people to speak honestly about climate, this dispatch is about what it takes to keep going when the weather is hostile and the silence is louder than expected.

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Downsizing — Packing — Long Flight

The Pacific Expedition begins — not at sea, but in a storage unit. Clothes to Goodwill, a truck handed off, 170 pounds of luggage on a scale. Some departures happen before you ever leave the dock.

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Aleutians - Insurance - Health

A possible detour through the Aleutians, an unexpectedly successful LinkedIn post, a tense moment with the insurance underwriter, closing the GenoFAB chapter, and a health check before departure

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Hope in the Air

Four hours. Seventeen kilometers. One song on repeat. Hope in the Air is not a song about hope, but about responsibility when illusions fall away.

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Waitangi Day

Standing in Paihia, next to the treaty grounds, I encountered a national day shaped by remembrance, restraint, and an unresolved shared history — one that quietly challenged the triumphalist narratives I’ve grown used to elsewhere.

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Visiting New Zealand (or Not)

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First Impressions from New Zealand

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Risk Management Charter

A personal charter defining hard financial limits, enforced exit conditions, and the ethical boundaries of risk in the Ice Frontiers project.

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Communion

Loneliness is what unites us. At sea, we learn how to stand beside it — together.

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Happy New Year!

The resilience narrative is usually a story of happy endings. In the moment, it does not feel that way.

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De Profondis

I glow therefore I grow.

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Inertia

From relationships to climate.

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The Freedom of Letting Go

Choosing to grow deeper rather than larger.

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Casting Off

On the day I left.

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The French Exception

At least they have croissants.