Field journal
Dispatches
from the dunes.
Long-form letters from past expeditions. Read them slowly.
Field note · 04
On finding water in stone.
There is a wadi south of Wadi Musa where, if you know the rocks, you can dig a foot down and the sand turns cold.
Apr 20269 min read
Field note · 03
What the Bedouin taught us about fire.
Our first night in camp we built the fire wrong. The wind ate it in twenty minutes. Khalil showed us why.
Feb 20266 min read
Field note · 02
Forty years of silence.
Moses kept sheep here for forty years before the bush burned. We try to imagine that arithmetic, and fail.
Dec 202511 min read
Field note · 01
Why we started Wylderness.
It began on a flight back from Israel. Four of us, exhausted, certain there was a better way to do this.
Oct 20255 min read