Month: March 2013

• Red Rab-off

  We outdorks all have our pet gear obsessions. I like to think that mine (packs, shoes, windshirts) are especially practical. Windshirts are important because it’s windy a lot around here, and because I put out a lot of heat and thus try to avoid wearing a waterproof-breathable jacket at almost all costs. Weatherproofing and breathability…

  DaveC

  March.6.2013

  Backpacking, Bikes and biking, Packrafting, Racing, Skiing, Tech

• Recognition in the age of online adventure

  It does not take much directed experience, either online or face-to-face, to conclude that communication is fundamentally flawed.  Note that I don’t need to say “human experience” of “human communication” because that would be redundant.  Because we are human we cannot speak coherently outside our own experience, and therefore any type of communication is necessarily…

  DaveC

  March.5.2013

  Backpacking, Bikes and biking, Climbing, Cultural critique, Fly Fishing, Hunting, Packrafting, Racing, Skiing, Social Justice Work

• The Front

  Teton Pass might be the best shit-small ski area in the country. It is almost certainly the most beautiful. Stuck 28 miles back a winding road, inside one of the more convoluted areas of the Rocky Mountain Front, it’s surprising that it is open at all. Last year it wasn’t, the new owner didn’t have…

  DaveC

  March.4.2013

  Skiing

• Two things for the weekend

  The Bombflow/whateverthey’recallingthemselves guys haven’t expanded out of their ‘yak porn style of composition, but you cannot fault them for lacking quality material. Watch the Stikine part of the latest episode for phenomenal footage. Also, this trip report from Universal Klister makes for quality coffee accompaniment.

  DaveC

  March.1.2013

  N.O.S.