Month: August 2010
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One minute
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14198032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 High concept video blogging. 3 days down the Flathead were so overfull, and because of that so rushed. I tried to evoke that contrast. Did it work?
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"…alive in our observations…"*
Bob Marshall country is alive indeed. It’s incongruous coming back home and looking at the spot page. Ya’ll may have seen the dots creep along, but you do not know what you saw. I don’t know what I saw. Driving home last night, and all day today, the post-trip hangover has been outrageously outsized. The…
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Garbage gut, packrafting, beer snobery, and other news
Most importantly, starting tomorrow morning I’ll be taking three days to hike and float from Lodgepole Creek (Youngs Pass TH) to the Spotted Bear Ranger station, down Youngs Creek and then the South Fork of the Flathead. Should be pretty bitchin. The weather forecast is really good (projects no t-storms, ha), and there appears to…
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Yellowstone sky
It’s pretty hard to go to Yellowstone and not take at least a pretty good photo. Surely it’s the nature of the place; terrain both sweeping and intimate. I also think it’s my growing familiarity with the place. A richer, more expansive understanding of what Yellowstone means makes shots frame themselves quicker, makes light a…
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Trip video and insight into human-bear conflicts
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14022954&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 It’s been a bad year thus far for human-griz conflict in the Yellowstone area. Besides the fatal Soda Butte mauling, there have been four bears in the park that have been moved to other locations, typically the last resort before they’re shot. I got this last bit Sunday from a bear management specialist at…
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Love
I am currently sitting at home, recovering (much more a mental than physical process) from 3 days in Yellowstone with M. Adding to the magnitude of processing the trip are the thought provoking things recently posted by two of my most esteemed online fellows: Ryan Jordan and Roman Dial. I’m not yet on the level…
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North Fork of the Blackfoot packrafting
The trip today exceeded all expectations. I had plenty of concerns going in, as the water was quite low and the only beta available called it a class V run during meltoff. I went in with two very different reasons why I might end up portaging a ton or just giving up and hiking out. …
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3 Things
1: The last 3 k of stage 7, 2010 Giro http://v.kiwi.kz/v/nc82trklfw68 2: Dave ripping it up at Snowbowl tonight 3: A recipe (haven’t done one in a while) -Boil whole chorizo sausages in some beer, after 10 minutes, add-1 can diced/crushed tomatoes, 1 can black-eyed peas, also add-finely chopped white onion, roughly chopped garlic (lots),…
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What’s going on (Butte 100 thoughts, cover letters, riding, photos)
I’ve been meaning to hammer out a treatise on the Butte 100, especially contrasting my experience at it (my first supported 100) with the numerous unsupported races I’ve done over the last 3+ years. But between having fun with people, writing lots of cover letters for job applications (which is really draining), and the impending…
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Riding with Dave and Jill
This summer really has been superlative. I don’t think I yet appreciate the memory it will hold down the road. I had forgotten what a crazy mofo Dave is on a fixie. A true soul rider. That Singular Gryphon he’s got is super pretty. 3 Larch, Sidewinder, and Son of delivered the goods. My legs…
Bedrock & Paradox 