Empty Mountain

01/10/2026

New blog post:

A poem I penned this morning: January 10. Dark & early morn. To see sprigs of spring on the boughs of winter while staying put in the season at hand is good practice and no small undertaking. To know with both head & heart that while yes a new year has started, the months will mo

01/10/2026

New video upload:

Recorded on January 6, 2026.

01/08/2026

We are hosting a Morning of Mindfulness: "The Head & the Heart of Practice", in Missoula at the Open Way Mindfulness Center on Sunday February 8 from 10 AM- Noon.

We hope you can join us.

Free to attend, donations greatly appreciated. All are welcome.

To register, please visit:

Start your day chill with guided mindfulness and good vibes in Missoula—feel calm, focused, and refreshed!

01/07/2026

Good news! We just finished putting together our events schedule for 2026. Please save the dates!

01/07/2026

Here & now @ EM

01/04/2026

New blog post:

In a recent post I crafted on my personal practice blog, I wrote: “Sitting meditation is the practice of coming back home to ourselves…Attending sangha is the practice of generating a genuine felt sense of connection with one another as kin.” (To read the full post click here. ) Being diligent...

01/03/2026

For the past two years plus, we've been getting our internet access through our cell booster antenna by way of using data on our phones to get online, which we then hotspot from to our laptops. We've been researching and considering getting satellite internet since we moved into the woods, but for a few reasons we decided to simply stick with our current set up (which as a big bonus hasn't involved accruing another monthly bill).

But we've been getting closer lately to feeling the need to upgrade our situation, as there are a number of limitations and frustrations with using our cell booster for getting online, based on how remote we live and how weak our signal still is even with the high powered booster antenna we have. We just borrowed a travel based Starlink unit from Mike's brother Charles and his wife Laura to test it out to see how well it functions here in the woods of EM and we hooked it up today for the first time. It's working great! I was even able to upload an EM video to our YouTube channel, which I can't do with our booster and weak signal. I've always needed to do video uploads on Mondays when I'm in Missoula. Big win! I think this test run means getting our own dish is in our near future.

Here's a pic of it before we hooked it up. It doesn't look like much, but you know what they say. Big things can come in small packages :) Thank you Charles & Laura for letting us borrow your travel dish to try it out! And thank you to the many people and satellites circulating around the world that are making it possible for those of us living remotely & off-grid to have access to the web.

01/03/2026

New video upload:

Recorded on Jan 3, 2026.

01/02/2026

Pics from EM today on this lovely snowy day in the winter woods, in warm greeting to a new year's turning.

The tracks I came across I think might be from a bobcat. If you are good with tracks LMK what you think.

12/29/2025

New video upload:

Recorded on December 27, 2025.

12/29/2025

New blog post:

It’s around 9am Sunday December 28 as I type this post from the winter woods of Empty Mountain. The thermometer reads 2-degrees (-16C). We woke to 3” of fresh snow yesterday morning, the wet & heavy kind that has the pines and firs bending with the weight of it. I have a fresh mug of mint te

12/27/2025

We woke up to fresh & lovely new snow