Philmont
Mountains and clouds at sunset

Peeing in the Woods

I was drawn to Philmont in the summer of 2014, and if you will excuse the informal sentence structure, I’d like to say: Best. Job. EVER.

Face of a brown and white goat

And Sometimes, Things Happen

Well, hello there. It has been a while, hasn’t it? Or maybe it hasn’t. Maybe you never read the previous incarnation of Jest Kept Secret.

The constellation Orion in the night sky

Wish I May, Wish I Might

When I first came to Philmont back in 2007, I arrived in Raton at 2:00 in the morning. The rest of the trip to Cimarron

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