Month: February 2017
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Osprey Poco AG; my final word
A quality kid carrying backpack is essential for infant and toddler parents who like to hike and backpack. They’re more stable, safer, more comfortable, and less sweaty than any front carrier, and if built on a good suspension open up the option of load hauling for multiday endeavors. About a year ago we bought an…
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Zion
Unlike so many places, it is well named, especially for the 21st century bourgeois dilletante “adventurer”. Namely, us. We did well last year to so thoroughly associate the backpack with fun. LB loves hiking, occasionally requests to get back in the pack, and for him the more exposure and wind, the better. Which made Angel’s…
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Utah Hunting Expo pack roundup
Bias I’ve come to realize is a creeping thing. Both cultivating and dispensing of it are more difficult and less sudden than I used to think, especially when talking about the outdoor and hunting industries, where tribalism and 1913-style alliances of circumstance are the law of the land. So when the Utah Hunt Expo came…
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Chaco
We saw it many times, from miles and miles away, but I always dismissed it. Canyon country has plenty of odd lumps in the rimrock, and the trail was just sandy enough to be slow, the day just sunny enough to be fatiguing, and the cliff face along which we walked for a while was…
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Next, next
“End and goal; Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.” -Nietzsche, Wanderer… #204 A short time ago we were all set for a new adventure. I’d been a…
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Little Bear, brand ambassador
I’m very excited to announce that, in partnership with the evil genius’ over at Backbone Media in Carbondale, Little Bear will shortly become the very first in Yeti’s new line of toddler product ambassadors. As the following video, shot on location this past weekend while we were waiting for the slow hiking Talweg Creative team…
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The Ultimate Hikers Gear Guide, 2nd edition
Disclaimer: Mr. Skurka gave me this copy at a book signing during the winter OR show. First, the rationale behind the obnoxious title must be dealt with. Skurka’s “ultimate hiker” is one who tailors every aspect of her trip to serve walking, while the “ultimate camper” would maximize camping. It’s an intelligible distinction, one which…
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That lesson learned again
Car camping still isn’t, but there we were in the old orchards when the turkey attack happened. I still don’t like paying for camping, but that’s a big change from a decade ago, when I almost always went to absurd lengths to avoid it. But that other Fruita, along the Fremont, has the most gorgeous…
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Mike Rowe, party hack
In the course of 40 minutes I saw every hunting celebrity I can name: Remi Warren bumped into my elbow and spilled my beer, Steve Rinella is shorter than you think, Janis Putellis taller, Joe Rogan and Cam Hanes and Eric Chesser way shorter (which is saying something). This was all at SHOT, the First…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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