Every piece marks a place that matters to someone. These are a few of them.

Wedding anniversary gift. They were married at Timberline Lodge in 2014 and wanted something permanent from the mountain that started everything.

A daughter’s gift to her father, a retired piano teacher who spent a summer in Zermatt as a young man. It lives on his Steinway now.

Honeymoon in Hakone. They watched Fuji appear through the clouds at sunrise from their ryokan. Engraved with the date on the base.

Summited via the Owen-Spalding route after three years of training. The piece sits on a side table as a quiet reminder of what patience looks like.

Retirement gift from a research team at USGS. Thirty years of fieldwork in the Cascades, distilled into a single disc of aluminum.

Kept on a bookshelf between architecture monographs. A reminder of the solo trip that changed how he thinks about scale.

A family of four hiked the W Trek together before the kids left for college. Three pieces commissioned — one for each child, one for the parents.

First summit. Bought the same week he got the call about the job in Seattle. It arrived in its wooden box and hasn’t moved from the mantle since.
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