While Lance fights fire in Seattle, climbs the mountains of the PNW, and sails the Salish Sea, he writes. His work appears 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.