Author: DaveC
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Tracks
It’s now light enough to get in two hours of ski touring, after work! You know the skiing is going to be good when it’s been snowing for a few days, and then it gets cold enough for Micropuff pants to not be overkill when skinning.
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Teh Sammich
Get yourself a sausage and cook it. This one is a garlic-beer bratwurst from Pattee Creek Market in Missoula. Bestest bratwurst around. I boil it in water with some BBQ sauce and a few Tbsp of bal. vinegar mixed in. Boil the onions and peppers to taste. Effin’ y u m. Toast the bread (sourdough…
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First Epic of 2011: A Case Study
A discussion of a ski trip with Bill Martin on Saturday, interspersed with photos from other activities this weekend, with speculative conclusions on the most salient factors that build a safe and fulfilling outdoor adventure. A reliable approach to a good weekend with M is as follows: have a big adventure straight away so I’ll…
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A few things in winter
M in the snow last weekend. The larger context. This little zone has a good view (Missions in background, right). 1) Danni is competing in the Susitna 100 this weekend. Follow her here. Cheer on Jill and Beat (also foot), and Woodchuck (bike), too. 2) Backcountry Magazine reviewed fat waxless skis. They’re shitty little reviews…
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Cost/Benefit
The question which is, when attached to outdoor gear, the most relevant (and certainly most interesting) of all. Is item X worth it? The first photo ever posted on Bedrock & Paradox: me riding my old Gunnar Rockhound on Mt Elden, AZ in the summer of 2006. It’s a good point of departure. wondering if…
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May the cliches flow like wine..
Enabled by the gift, for my 30th birthday last Thursday, of a helmet cam from my sister. I took Friday off and went skiing. M, as her gift to me, went skiing on Saturday. It was good. Warm and pleasent, but cool enough to not make the snow sticky nor have us sweating like mad…
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On not getting hurt by an avalanche
(Wherein I throw most caution related to my modest amount of training, knowledge, and experience to the wind.) While there’s no doubt that this knowledge can lead to better decisions, it is disturbing that the victims in this study that were most influenced by heuristic traps were those with the most avalanche training. -McCammon, 2002…
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On Roland Fleck
I interrupt a quiet moment at work (thanks to a cancellation) to bring you something of great interest: In a story that will soon be blowing up all over internetland; Roland Fleck, a 78 year old doctor from Jackson, was sledded off the slopes of JHMR in handcuffs this past Saturday. The crime? Skinning up…
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We live here
Amazingly clear day. Clearest since we moved here in October last? Likely. Certainly the clearest day since the beginning of November, at least that’s been above 5F. Looking NNE over downtown Kalispell. The Big Mountain ski hill is right on the left edge. White peaks in the far distance, center, are in Glacier NP. Northern…
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Fuck the Superbowl
Orgiastic display of heternormative dominance and commercialism that it is. A longstanding, annual tradition, in fact. Though if memory serves I celebrated “it” last year by studying. This year I celebrated by drinking a lot of coffee and watching both Meet the Press and This Week, both worthwhile, especially because of Cristianne Amanpour’s foreign expertise…
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