Month: November 2017
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Seek Outside Revolution review
For the two years that I’ve had it the Seek Outside Revolution frame has been absolutely indispensable. A solid, comfortable load hauling frame is very nice to have for hunting, and this fall I put it to particularly good use, but for family backpacking a true hauler has been something I cannot imagine us living…
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A perfect hunting story
This is a perfect hunting story because it ends with a dead bull elk, the apotheosis of my five year quest to hunt an elk in the Bob Marshall and get it out all on my own. It is also a perfect hunting story because the actual practice of hunting occupies but little time within…
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Shit that works week; again
We’re back! In the season of flash sales and emails, where impulse purchases push companies into the black and fill our closets with things that aren’t strictly necessary, it behooves us to step back and take a break. As I wrote three years ago: “A lot of gear upgrading is malarkey, born of boredom or…
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Our Kuiu problem
[Greetings to the small flood of new readers brought here by internet searches concerning the fate of Jason Hairston. As of 2100 MDT on September 5 we know that Mr. Hairston died recently. Internet rumors strongly suggest, but do not confirm, suicide. After you’ve satisfied your curiosity on that front and mourned the loss of…
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Mounting problems
My first rule of skiing is that my gear has to do a lot of things, in the backcountry. I don’t go outside to be around people, and recent events have confirmed that for me serious ski mountaineering is simply too dangerous. Therefore I’ll inevitably be drawn to longer, moderate, backpacking-type routes that feature plenty…
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Getting what you paid
This is how an obsession starts, refinement of a tool whose elegance is only matched by its ubiquity, and the unessentialness of special details. The appeal of knives is easy to grasp, and so too is the dizzying extent to which in the internet age they’ve been fetishized into almost nonexistence. Nothing speaks to the…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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