Month: April 2011
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Fire!
First, Dan and canyon crew are on fire with this trip. Serious FOMO warning. Second, Enel requested that I hold forth on the subject of firearms (guns!) as a backcountry safety tool. Since moving up to Griz country I’ve thought a fair bit about the various ways in which one might defend oneself against hostile…
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Why Roubaix is the greatest
I imagine that the overwhelming majority of ya’ll, out there, know that the road race Paris-Roubaix was run yesterday. If for no other reason than I already mentioned the winner, Johan Vansummeren. I’ve been drawn into following pro road racing over the last year, and in it’s good moments has become a far, far…
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Amazing rides
You can do what you can to prepare and invite them in, but ultimately they just happen. Yesterday was the magic two-week mark before the GrizPerson, and given that cycling strength is our path to success (along with generally racing smart; Bill and I have both been ignoring the running aspect) a solid…
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More bikerafting
Rode north, found a fishing access on the Main Flathead, which is rockin’ along very clear, fed 80% by releases from Hungry Horse reservoir, anticipating the massive runoff that will occur once the mountain start to warm up The Tubus Cargo gets the job done. New rigging method. Needs to be a bit further forward,…
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Local bullshit
BS item #1: Me being easy to spot last Saturday. BS item #2: Spurious “breakthrough agreement” on Bison management in Yellowstone As I’ve written before, the argument that brucellosis is carried by bison to cattle with detrimental results is a red herring. Ranchers dislike bison because they stomp their fences and generally disrupt the illusion…
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So much in the dark
I went for a ride after work, no longer a rushed commodity with the departure of daylight savings. I veered off the plan, thinking it might be worth seeing if Lone Pine State Park had really melted off in the last week. To my surprise it had. Dirt season is ON! Weather in the Flathead…
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The Thaw
It’s happening. The Middle Fork of the Flathead is at 3000 cfs, compared to 850 last weekend. Compare the following to this photo. Snowpack decreasing = spring. I woke up early this morning, out of hunger more than anything, but also to watch some cycling. An inch of fresh snow sat in the yard, and…
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Whitefish P3athlon race report
(I’m inventing the above appellation because Pole-Pedal-Paddle Triathlon is both ungainly and in the wrong order for this event.) The weather this morning and early afternoon was good for doing a race on a fairly innocuous course, which is to say it was 85% crap. The other 15% were left out because it wasn’t raining…
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The Junk Show
Tomorrow is the Pole-Pedal-Paddle triathlon up in Whitefish, and I’ve resolved to get full value by riding there and back and hauling all my gear. Speaking of full value, the forecast calls for 40s and 100% chance of precip. It took some thinkering and futzing, but past experience hauling skis and fly rods in the…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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