While Lance fights fire in Seattle, climbs the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, and sails the Salish Sea, he writes. His writing has appeared in Outside, Backpacker, Mountaineer, Orion, The Seattle Times, and The Stranger, which listed his essay Assaulted and Silenced as The Best American Journalism of 2018. His lyric essay Brothers in Arms is featured in the anthology, EARTHLY LOVE.