Record

Solo expeditions and endurance racing, 2014 to now.

Who

About

I travel under my own power and the wind’s, alone, in places where the logistics are as hard as the movement. Skis, snow kites, a kayak, and most recently a kite buggy.

Based in Seattle.

Record

Expeditions and results

2026

Trans-Mongolia Kite Buggy Traverse

  • Departed 4 May 2026
  • Solo, self-designed route from west to east, self-supported

2024

Greenland Snowkite Traverse (40 days)

  • Unsupported coast to coast, Isortoq to Qaanaaq, Greenland
  • 1,539 miles and four first ascents with Eric Gilbertson

2023

Scandinavian Arctic Traverse (77 days)

  • Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland
  • Solo, self-designed route from western to eastern geographic extreme
  • 985 miles using skis, snow kite and kayak

2022

Bigfoot 200, Washington (August)

  • 110 of 209 miles, 23,000+ feet of elevation gain
  • Sustained a sprained hamstring tendon and did not finish

Orcas Island Trail Race, Washington (April)

  • 2nd overall
  • 50 miles, 12,000 feet of climbing

2021

Druk Wangyel Half Marathon, Thimphu, Bhutan (December)

  • 4th overall

Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan, 23,406ft (August)

  • Summit on 17 August after two weeks, with Cody West

Slovenia mountaineering (24–30 July)

  • 16 peaks climbed
  • Established an FKT on the Triglav traverse via the Prag Route, north face

Wyoming mountaineering (27 June – 8 July)

  • 11 peaks climbed, nine of them above 13,000ft
  • Roughly 100 miles and 40,000 feet of vertical gain

Bob Marshall Open, Montana (28–31 May)

  • Point-to-point navigation challenge
  • 92 miles and 12,000 feet of vertical gain
  • Completed in 60 hours with John Fitzgerald and Nate Bender

Grand Teton to Yellowstone ski traverse (9 days)

  • Solo, self-designed route

2020

Montana Top 50, FKT (17 days, 11 hours)

  • Solo, self-supported

Bob Marshall Open, Montana (May)

  • 90-mile unsupported traverse of the Bob Marshall Wilderness
  • Completed in 53 hours with John Fitzgerald

2019

Nuts Ylläs Pallas 100-mile, Finland (July)

  • 2nd place, 20:44

Matterhorn, Switzerland, via the Hörnli Ridge

  • On sight, solo, unprotected, one week after a 100-mile race

Boston Marathon

  • 2:49:31, top 4% overall

Run to the Pub, 13.1 miles

  • 6th of 773, 1:17:41

2018

Le Grizz 50-mile

  • 2nd place, 6:20

Bozeman Marathon

  • 2nd place

HURL Elkhorn 15-mile

  • 1st place

Thunderbolt Creek 30km

  • 3rd place

Late 2016 – early 2018

International travel, three continents, 13 countries, solo

  • Tarawera Ultra 60km, New Zealand
  • Two-month cycle tour of Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales
  • 500+ km trekking in the Nepalese Himalaya
  • Mount Rinjani, Indonesia

Alaska commercial salmon fishing

  • Two seasons

2015

Ironman 140.6, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Bowron Canoe Circuit, 120km unsupported, British Columbia

2014

Ironman 70.3, Lake Stevens, Washington