Author: DaveC
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Read this blog
Not this one, you’re already doing that (and thank you, btw), but this one! Photo by DZ. Go to his blog to see the big one! I learned about DZ from Hendrik, of course, and have enjoyed his work enormously since. Right now he’s got an extended series about a Greenland trip going on, with…
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The Year in and of Water
Yep, still autumn, despite snow building in the mountains. 2011 has for me been defined by water. Snow travel, packrafting, and fly fishing have been just about all I’ve done, other stuff like biking and climbing mountains didn’t make the selection very often. Skiing was a mixed bag, mainly in that by winter’s end I…
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The Cultural Apotheosis of Gear
“So economic growth is dead. It’s dead because the planet will not support it. But it’s also dead because it’s economically and socially irrational- it isn’t delivering improvements to…quality of life…it’s actually now degrading it because of all the social problems inequality is causing.” -Paul Gilding Robbers Roost country, November 2005. I’ve written a lot…
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Futures of the Packraft (Alpacka Yukon Yak review)
I’ve had my Yak since June of last year. It’s been paddled in almost every month of the year, on exploratory creeks and well-known big rivers, first descents, first packraft descents, day trips, big trips, and as every packraft should be, in Alaska. I finally put a hole in it this past weekend (easily patched…
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The Variegated Nature of Trails
Autumn in Glacier has been this year particularly fine and delicious. Yesterday morning I woke up at 430. Not a common occurrence, especially as I’m still in a post-Classic torpor of only wanting to go fishing and beer drinking (fishing season is about over, so I need to get back in shape). The plan was…
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Packrafting McDonald Creek
McDonald Creek, roadside in Glacier, is closed to boating April-October to protect Harlequin Duck nesting (and to keep tubers from killing themselves). In March the creek is usually frozen out, and getting enough rain to up the levels in October is a transient moment. Fortunately this week, everything came together. Today I had just enough…
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Gear: Review
In continuation from yesterday.. I’ve always been interested in outdoor gear. I studied gear catalogues from a very early age, years before the internet made fetishization so convenient. We’re talking about an eight year old in Ohio, who took enthusiastic but not nearly frequent enough backpacking and camping trips with his family. I continued to…
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Simplicity: Gear
It’s too bad Ryan Jordan’s blogging is so stochastic. When he does write, it’s always worth reading and is usually one of the more thought-provoking things I’ll encounter online in that particular week. The most recent post is no exception. In it he discussed favorites bits of gear (and when I say gear I mean…
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The Bechler
“He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.” -Thoreau, “Walking” It’s autumn. Eh. The kids know what this…
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Gear spew
By my standards I’ve been rolling gear this year. Some of it has been/is really good, if not especially compelling. Below are some review notes, updates, and MYOG stuff. Feel free to ask for details. Astral Nova PFD: On its way back to REI. After the Middle Fork trip I found it on sale and…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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