Notes from the long way round

Occasional writing about backcountry trails, old camera glass, and small tools I build to keep track of it all.

Sep 28, 2026

Chasing ridge light above the tree line

A slow two-day loop where the weather did exactly the opposite of the forecast, and why that turned out fine.

Sep 12, 2026

Thirty-year-old glass, a little dust, and sharper results than anything else in the bag. Some notes on why.

Aug 30, 2026

I kept forgetting where photos were taken, so I wrote a small helper that stitches tracks and timestamps together.