Welcome to Shangrilogs

What is this place? Plus, readers' 15 favorite high-altitude essays.

What is Shangrilogs?

Shangrilogs is about small town antics and big heart tactics, written from a log cabin in my personal Shangri-La.

Every Sunday I share an essay about slow mountain living. It’s a high-altitude tale set in a town of 180 people and 51 dogs at 10,000 feet.

Shangriloggers are ever investigating their relationship with big nature and their own natures. We keep it kind and curious in these parts. Trespassers will be humbly reminded of their place within the universe.

Who are you?

I’m Kelton Wright, and I’m a writer. That bit of nominative determinism has landed me in The Guardian, Time Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Runner’s World, Bicycling Magazine, and Outside Magazine. But this newsletter is where my writing gets to live wild, just how I like it. As the daughter of a wildlife biologist and a smokejumper, I’m always trying to bring the outside in—and into your inboxes.

Here are some of readers’ favorite pieces:

1. Living an inconvenient life.

2. Someone’s best one-night stand.

3. Managing regret.

4. But does it have character?

5. In the land of dogs.

6. This is gun country.

7. Advice about babies, grown and otherwise.

8. How to rescue someone in an avalanche.

9. This is your body on altitude.

10. The best and worst of mornings.

11. Hilarity in grief.

12. The pulsing drive of fear.

13. 94 hours to go.

14. Everything could be wonderful.

15. Have you lost it?

How can I support this newsletter?

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The Wednesday Edition is a perk for paid subscribers. It includes what I’m reading, practicing, hoping for, and working on.

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Want a look behind the wood pile? I’m also the co-host of Pen Pals, a process show about writing and craft. Every week, Krisserin Canary and I share what’s working, what’s driving us crazy, and what’s getting in the way as we try to publish our first novels.