Author: DaveC
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A scare
Little Cloud, Aka Littler Bear, turns 2 in a few weeks. As with all toddlers, the aspects of his personhood attributable to his life outside the womb have become reasonably distinct from those which formed within it. His time spent outside and younger sibling life of perpetual catch-up were recently in evidence when 2 days…
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Montana social distancing update
On Saturday, the first day of our shelter-in-place order, we hardly left our yard. The day was blue and in the fifties, we oiled lawn furniture and laid a brick walk, and generally waited for our hearts to catch back up. Yesterday, Little Bear and I ventured forth in the face of the warmest day…
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Today
We all use repetition to structure our lives. Wearing the half-mask of routine, this is habit. Draw with the straight line of intention, it becomes ritual. Ritual, axe edged with hope, splits the now equally between past and the future. Habit, for all its unconscious-ness, does not lack for emotion, only awareness. Since joining the…
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Panic
This began two days ago as a hopefully un-trite post about how parks, mainly national, should not be closed during the current Coronavirus crisis. I wanted to point out how both explicible and sad it was that Yellowstone closed Tuesday. How parks, however grand, are generally in someones backyard. Moab had an entirely reasonable request…
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The Open 2020
I updated the information for the 2020 Bob Open just now. Removing the mass start option seemed to be the most responsible solution for the uncertainty surrounding the virus. This means that I encourage everyone for whom the circumstances in two months time make it safe to do the walk, be it the circumstances of…
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Things I’ve broken lately
Last month Little Bear and I went backpacking. In and of itself this was not unusual, though it was the first time just the two of us had walked in to camp under a tarp. It was noteworthy because it was February, and we were in shoes, walking over a inch of crusted snow and…
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Hunting the future
Exploring the underbelly of any subculture via internet forums is invariably equal parts fascinating and revolting. Diving into the graininess of people at their most unfiltered teaches a lot, about a particular subject and about humanity generally. If you dive not far into American hunting culture, you’ll become acquainted with the narrative of how liberal…
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Granite
I couldn’t hear him breathing; not over the wind, which pushed eerie harmonics around the chimney pipe, and shoved the towers timber frame into groaning against the bolts that held it to the cables that held it to the granite ground. Nor could I hear him breathing over the flood roaring between my head and…
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Pack prototype sale
[3/20 update: all packs are sold.] Over the past three years of developing the Tamarisk I’ve built a lot of packs. There’s no other way to see how ideas work in the field. Prototyping is a profoundly fun process, and at the same time necessarily protracted and tedious. The pile of 40-60 liter packs in…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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