“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art… Boxing can be an art. Loving can be an art. Opening a can of sardines can be an art… Not many have style. Not many can keep style… style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.” 

– Charles Bukowski

The first step is to choose a pack appropriately suited for your body. This includes the pack’s capacity, size, shape, and ability to adjust and maneuver. Packing a few weeks prior to your hike is ideal, so you can get comfortable with it, break it in, and test out different packing techniques. Additionally, all of this will help the pack properly adjust to your body.

DFA is a record label based out of Brooklyn, New York. Over the past twenty years, they have released numerous titles. Many of their records have become the foundation & gateway to much of my musical influence & inspiration.

With the formation of the record label, founders Jonathan Galkin, James Murphy, and Tim Goldsworthy were looking to fill a void and recapture the spirit that was gone from New York. DFA was born out of frustration from the absence of the music they wanted, as Jonathan Galkin states, “we were nostalgic for something we didn’t actually remember.”

Photographs, for me, encapsulate my more profound understanding of a subject, and they have become my way of contextualizing the world around me. Like many others, I am a spatial learner, meaning I learn and remember best through visual communication, which hints at my love for the photograph.