Author: DaveC
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Shit that works; lifestyle addition
The Wayback Machine doesn’t travel back to when I can first recall the concept of “lifestyle” in outdoor clothing and gear. It was a North Face catalogue, late 80s or early 90s, talking about a woman from Alaska or the Yukon or Wyoming or some similarly very far from Ohio place, who had fallen out…
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Shoe requiem (Altra King MT 1.0)
As with most things here, this isn’t really a proper review, though the first version of the King MT is still available if you wear a men’s 8, but a discussion of one thing as a salient example, of several trends playing out in the world of trail running and hiking shoes. The first thing…
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Backpack destruction
There are two kinds of hunting backpacks. The first is a burly backpacking pack, with enhanced hipbelt design and some manner or provisions for keeping (boned out) meat weight high and tight to maintain load carry. Internal loops at the tops of the stays are the best option here, as building enough anti-barrel into a…
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A return
I had this all outlined in my head, during the 90 minute walk to the put in. The ~5 miles of the North Fork of the Blackfoot spanning the Wilderness boundary was an early touchstone in my packrafting, one I sought out to test myself to the intimidating prospect of joining Forrest and Luc on…
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Bob Open survey update
The initial 6 days of responses display a clear trend. With the mean response to question 3 being well below 1, and the slim majority of responses to question 2 amounting to “thought about doing it but don’t have the skills/experience”, it seems clear that there are lots of folks, both past starters/finishers and aspirants,…
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Planning the 2019 Bob Open
It’s time to start planning the 2019 Bob Open. If you want to cut to the chase, click here to take a 1 minute survey. Until recently the process of picking a route across the Bob has been simple; I pick out a few places I haven’t been and want to go (often this had…
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Known doubt
The best thing I’ve done for my learning in the outdoors was one of the earliest. In the early 90s seemingly no one in the US, or at least southern Ohio, did anything other than clip bolts, so it was up to me and my set of hexs and stoppers to figure it out. Gym…
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Little places
Either as an endorsement for my unhesitance in telling my supervisors when they do things which are dumb, or as punishment for the same, I was recently nominated to be on a committee to make recommendations for improving employee recruitment and retention. It’s been an enlightening experience, in that many of the obvious issues are…
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Panic in the Elkhorns
A few days ago I went for a bike ride, on many of the same trails featured in this video from last year. I didn’t bring a camera, and snapped only a few vague photos with my phone along the way, having no intention of discussing specifics. As I wrote last June But what I…
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Why Mike Lee is not full of it
A week ago the junior Senator* from Utah caused a good stir with a speech that all you readers ought to peruse, as it is both better and worse than the typical outpourings of press releases and 250 word “articles” have made it to be. I’ll pick some nits in conclusion, but it’s worth hopping…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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