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Who I am
I'm Adam Roy, a writer, editor, and creator. In my professional life, I'm the editor in chief of Backpacker. In the rest of it, I'm a hiker, rock climber, skier, spider enthusiast, amateur cartographer, more amateur coder, game creator, and dad.
What you'll find here
- My professional work
- Personal projects, from experiments in code to games to photography
- Miscellaneous posts, jokes, and thoughts in need of a home
Posts
- 2024-07-25 — Every Hiker Needs a Big-Ass Fanny Pack
- 2024-07-02 — AI Can't Hike for You
- 2024-06-22 — A Familiar Hum
- 2024-05-06 — Just Baby Steps
- 2024-04-14 — Pondering the Orb
- 2024-02-26 — What I'm Into This Week, End of Winter Edition
- 2024-02-02 — On Guinea Pigs and Grief
- 2023-11-10 — Spiders on the Radio—and in Print
- 2023-08-31 — What I'm Into This Week, End of Summer Edition
- 2023-07-20 — The Fine Art of Herding Spiders
- 2023-07-09 — Counting the Days
- 2023-05-25 — What I'm Into This Week, May 25, 2023
- 2023-02-08 — An Eight-Legged Mystery
- 2023-02-04 — The Article That Made Me Want to Become a Journalist
- 2023-02-04 — What I'm Into This Week, February 4, 2023
- 2022-12-30 — Season’s Greetings from the Beautiful Iowan Alps
- 2022-12-25 — What I'm Into This Week, 2022 Holiday Edition
- 2022-12-19 — My Favorite Hike of 2022 Was The Oregon Coast Trail
- 2022-12-03 — Junk Science and the Justice System
- 2022-11-27 — What I'm Into This Week, November 27, 2022
- 2022-11-26 — Let's try something a little different
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