Behind the scenes
Db x Safeback Announce Partnership
Db and Safeback are designing the world’s first backcountry vest integrating the Safeback SBX avalanche survival system. As two Scandina...
A week in France
A few weeks ago, we launched our Pack Heavy, Chase Light campaign on the beaches of France at Wasted Talent. We joined by friends, ambass...
Worried and stressed passengers
There's one thing I have never understood whilst traveling. Well, there’s plenty of things but one that I am every time without fail left...
Tugging at the Velcro
Getting started isn’t always so easy. There’s a certain discipline, a mindset that’s required, not to mention a considerable amount of ph...
Reasons to keep moving
Curiosity. It’s what stands in the way of sitting still, staying put, being present. We’re compelled to move, to act, to go see. After al...
Follow up every lead, (especially if you work in marketing)
I know, I know. Your email box is likely full, you get random calls from people who want free products and the company IG and Tik Tok i...
Applied theories: Flow states
Flow is the state you achieve when you become fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the proc...
Applied theories: Route finding
If you google directions from A to B you will get something like the above.But to get to the top of a mountain you need to move more lik...
Applied theories: Finding Tranny
Finding tranny (read: transition) is a word of art that comes from skateboarding, snowboarding and skiing. It refers to the act of gettin...
In Common
In Common In the first note I wrote for Db I recommended Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. Especially th...
Documentingbaggage
We’re packing for Portugal now and it got me thinking... I’ve written about “all things travel” except for the luggage. You know, the thi...
Dartingback
There’s a song, a feel-good, get-outta-town folk anthem called All The Salt, in which John Craigie sings:If you come with me all your sor...
Domesticbeginnings
We’re home now, and I’m living in that enviable purgatory of having a job offer, but not yet a job. It makes for aimless days. On one of ...
Deepbackyard
At the dawn of the pandemic, when I began doing these postcards, I wrote a draft that started with the line, “I’ve never seen the Grand C...