Author: DaveC
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The cycling of middle childhood
Flood debris, Flathead River bends. Below the high water mark, so nobody owns this ground. I started mountain biking in middle school, on my Bridgestone MB5. My friend Adam and I would ride out to Hueston Woods, the only large natural area nearby, and ride on the mountain bike trails that were only then being…
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On the fatbike fad
Let us dispense with this nonsense once, so that it need not be said again: -Yes, fatbikes are necessarily heavier. So are fat skis. And larger paddle blades. -If you mistake stable handling for sluggishness, you need to get out more. And learn that the best way to steer a mountain bike usually involves the…
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Ski to die
Steve Romeo is dead. The influential backcountry skier and blogger died in an avalanche in the Tetons less than a week ago. As the Black Diamond blog put it: “Steve never wasted a day, or an hour, and he was leading the life he dreamed for himself, which is the most any of us can…
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Spring Training
There is no substitute for the real thing. I don’t think I’m in much worse or much better shape than this time last year. Less backcountry skiing for turns this year, more nordic skiing and fatbiking. I’m not serious/technical enough to have measurable benchmarks to know for sure, and in any case general fitness is…
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Last of the Great Unknown
Nice one Dan. I assume most of you have been following Mike’s write up on a certain award-winning trip. If not, go do that.
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There are no first de(a)scents
M and Isaac playing in the mud, Robbers Roost, November 2005. In 2005 we found ourselves, during the course of an extended road trip out west, spending a long Thanksgiving holiday camped out in the Robbers Roost in southern Utah. We did a lot of great, cold hiking with ropes (aka canyoneering), cooked a spectacular…
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Riding like an animal
It doesn’t take much for something to go on a fatbike. We’re finally getting winter. The nordic trails are in good shape (finally enough to cover the deadfall), an powwdah is happening in the mountains, but all I want to do is ride my Mukluk. Halfway through todays trip, while yardsaling gear and preparing to…
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Primus Express Spider
Meltin’ snow. My stove “quiver” needed expanding. Last year I became enamored with the Bushbuddy, a fantastic, fully enclosed wood burning stove. For quite a while I thought such things were just expensive alternatives to fires, but eventually caved because I wanted to be able to burn wood on backcountry trips during the winter. You…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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