Author: DaveC
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Ghosts
On the Swan Crest looking NNW, two weeks ago. The sun actually came out today, I wore shades driving to appointments this afternoon. That hasn’t happened much in the months we’ve lived in the Flathead. I’m adapting better than I would’ve thought possible, years ago sunniness on par with Arizona seemed like a prerequisite to…
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Just a quick reminder..
I attended a nice lecture this evening, sponsored by the Glacier Country Avalanche Center, about weather patterns and their influence on our snowpack formation. I learned a lot of interesting things, such as why radar forecasts are useless around here winter*, but Stan Bones left us with the most vital thing to remember about winter…
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Karhu Guide ski review
ExecSum: This neo-classic ski, currently living after the demise of Karhu as the Madshus Annum, is the proverbial jack-of-all-trades, master of none. If you want one ski that will work for 40 degree powder fields, 20 miles of rolling trail breaking, and everything in between, this is the ski. The facts: My Guides are 185…
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Enduring
What matters in life? A redundant question, as thinking that something would matter outside of life (which is to say, existence) not only makes no sense, but is quite unthinkable. Life is an echo chamber, where meaning is discovered like a skier in a whiteout: unable to see anything, the skier yells out, listens, and…
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Anorak finished!
Grey fabric is OWFInc Epic polyester ripstop, 2.8ish oz/yrd. Blue and neon (underarm panels) fabric is Pertex Equilibrium. Pink flare is the nylon from the old anorak that got sacrificed as a pattern. That was me showing what I think of making clothes. It’s hard, finicky work. There were plenty of head-scratching moments, some seam…
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How I got the best job on earth
I spent all of August online, looking for vacant places in organizations. Companies that would pay me to do something enjoyable. Right around the autumnal equinox I drove up here, to NW MT, and did a neat trip and interviewed for a job. The trip amounted to a necessary and sufficient evocation of the fates,…
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What I wore this past Saturday
As has been acknowledged here and most everywhere else, dressing for ski touring is a challenge. Strenuous, slow ups, fast and cold downs, and rapidly changing exposure to sun and shade and calm and wind make maintaining a safe level of warmth without sweating quite the puzzle. I had a pretty good setup going this…
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The interloper
Danni Coffman skinning Big Mountain this past Friday morning. Competency is one of the larger burdens/insecurities I carry through my life. For exactly, the fear that I will be incompetent and be experienced as such by others. Sometimes these two are the same, sometimes they are very, very different. Provided that in work and in…
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Perhaps this weekend?
Trip planning is an equisite art. The mechanical side has, and continues to be, revolutionized by technology. Six years ago M and I lived in Moab, and quickly stockpiled USGS quads because they were the only source for detailed topographic information about most of Utahs backcountry canyons. That is no longer the case. Travis from…
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LaSportiva Crossleather review
ExecSum: The shoe marries aggressive, sticky tread with a flexible, low profile midsole and a very durable leather upper, creating a combination unique amongst current trail running and hiking shoes. It does so by increasing the weight relative to mesh shoes, by decreasing the draining speed, and by substantially increasing the drying time. Review: Back…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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