Mike Outside
The part that isn’t a number.
Field Notes is the evidence — what the engine called, and what the water did about it. This is everything else: why any of it got built, and what the days are actually like.
The Most Expensive Answer Is WAIT
If uncertainty always becomes an argument for going, the engine isn't evaluating anything. What it costs to say wait — and the two times in August the engine was less useful than its score implied.
Is Tomorrow Worth Going?
I didn't start Outside Lines PNW because I have the outdoors figured out. I started it because I don't.