Author: DaveC
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The reality
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Open will start Memorial Day weekend in 2012. Details can be found here.
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Wilderness racing in the Lower 48
We need to bring Classic-style racing to the lower 48. Insofar as that is possible. We should because it’s awesome, and because I think it’d be reasonably possible to approximate the experience in many important ways (but definitely not all). We because I reckon there aren’t too many essential players in that process who don’t…
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The Crown of the Continent Grand Tour
Lake McDonald and the Larches from Mt. Brown. Training for 2012 started today! Took in a speedy hike to the Mt. Brown lookout this afternoon, 1:50 up, 3;30 round trip. (4300′ of gain, 11.5 miles total). 12 meters/minute average climbing rate. Not bad for having spent the last 3 months drinking beer and fly fishing.…
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Halloween Party
No video this year, just big hair. You’ll have to check the Facebooks to find photos of me as Gulo gulo. Bonus question: what’s more annoying than knowing that Erin and Hig are embracing the wild with an equanimity few of us will ever be able to understand? Answer: anyone who reads Gawker.
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A test of patience
My new bike is pretty sweet. I underestimated the excitement it would engender. (Thanks B!) The fatness is pretty giggle-inducing (insert phallogocentric bike quip here). I approve of the stickers. Being reflective is a great touch. I’ll take it to the LBS to get the headset installed once the new crown race comes in, but…
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More on windshirts (Rab Boreas first and second look)
A few weeks ago I did something I thought I’d never do; I sold my Patagonia Houdini. It and my Traverse pullover funded the purchase of an on-sale Rab Boreas pull-on, their replacement. Nice hood on the Boreas, That odd peak on the forehead seals very well over a hat with a brim, like a…
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Autumnal photos and new bike dread
The height of the Aspens and Cotttonwoods has passed, but the Larches are just coming into form. I’m excited to get a new bike. Bikes are really cool, one of those items whose durability, aesthetic potential, and utility all unite and form a strong bond. To prepare, and prep the Karate Monkey for winter (and…
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Luc is full of crap
Not because of his videos, they are all like this one uncannily good, but because he seems to think I and you drive traffic for him. Absurd, all his videos have like, 1000+ views, while mine have about 87. That could be because his don’t suck, of course…
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New bike = stuff on clearance
[Updated 10/24 am] M on rappel in Zion, en route to long night out. It’s been since July ’09 that I last set foot on the CO Plateau! For the first time four years I’ve got a new bike on the way, but once it arrives I’ll be a few crucial parts (wheels, bb, freewheel,…
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The Modernization of the Offwidth
In the summer of 2000 I had finished my first year of college in rather unceremonious fashion, and lacking any direction is life other than climbing and my girlfriend spent the summer living out of my Subaru, half climbing in South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado and half skulking around her house in Iowa while she…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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