Osprey is an easy company to dislike, largely due to their unapologetically Google-esque ownership of the pack market, but more substantively because of their tendency to emphasize specialization to an absurd degree. However, they are good pack makers and brilliant pack designers, and often enough come out with a pack whose coherence moves the bar […]
Month: April 2017
How to start packrafting
Many thanks to those who in the last 48 hours have pushed the Car Camping sticker into competition with the Home sticker. The later is still leading, but not by much. Today is the last day where a sticker purchase will come with an entry into the pack raffle, so there’s that. The first […]
How the Kifaru Duplex Works
When it comes to modern, internal frame load haulers for big game hunting Kifaru has defined the genre and, web traffic and analytics would have one assume, sells more than any of their competitors, by a considerable margin. Recently I had a chance to borrow an older Duplex frame and spend a decent amount of […]
Echo Park
The water would have been right up there. It’s a thought that hovers 500 feet overhead and permeates what would otherwise be an overly lucent place, a pinch of silt dissolved in a pint of champagne. Echo Park was named by Major Powell, and might have been the first occasion for the 1869 river trip […]
This is not a business
But I am asking you to buy things. Back in 2010 the end of grad school and move to a new place, with what was finally and undeniably a real job, properly prompted introspection. One prominent result was upgrading this blog to WordPress and taking it far more seriously. What I’ve gotten from that commitment […]
2017 Bob Open, planning from afar
As things stand today, the family and I will almost certainly be at the start of the 2017 Bob Open, if for no other reason than we rented the (superlatively gorgeous) forest service cabin at the start for the nights of the 26th and 27th. I’m less certain I’ll actually start the course, but knowing […]
The Big question
Where to live? A question of massive importance that for obvious reasons we’ve been pondering a lot lately. With a kid and a lot of stuff future moves will ideally trend toward the number of digits needed to eat chicken nuggets. We also did the van life thing before hashtags were invented, and it lacks […]
