Author: DaveC
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Preserving the preserver
As most of you will know, President Trump recently ordered Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to conduct a review of all National Monuments designated since 1996. Specifically, the executive order directs …the Secretary to conduct a review of all Presidential designations or expansions of designations under the Antiquities Act made since January 1, 1996,…
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We made it
The family is back in Montana, and a mostly sleepness night and a whole lot of box lifting the past few days can’t blunt how good it feels. To celebrate, the Go North sticker is on sale today only, cuz duh. South-southeast is the worst direction ever. M and I have moved a lot in…
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You are all going to die
Nothing is certain and a lot can change in three weeks, but right now conditions for the Bob Open are shaping up to be as or more challenging than they’ve been, for any years of the formal event or for the two years prior when I did solo trips that weekend. Compared to three weeks…
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Bark River Micro-Canadian; more knife perfection
Last fall I wrote; Ideally, I’d like one knife which combines the slicing and edge retention of the Dragonfly with the abuse-ability of the Candiru. The Bark River Micro-Canadian has been the number one candidate for some time, but it violates my no-knives >100 dollars policy. A year from now I’ll probably have purchased one,…
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The best and worst of the Colorado Plateau
This is a stupid exercise, one which tends to highlight my more willful and generally less flattering tendencies, but I found a similar exercise last fall useful enough that I feel compelled. Ordering ones thoughts is handy, for historiographical purposes, no matter their prejudice. This time I’ve gone forth without numbers. The landscape of the…
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Settling for right
Floating the Narrows in Zion has been a goal trip for a decade and a half, and since before I had one a packraft was the obvious tool. Circumstance and skill have just not yet come together, something which will remain the case, as we were in town the past few days, with perfect water…
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And the winner is..
803200, email me and we’ll get your pack to you ASAP. And as always, get off your butt;Run down the hall;and buy some stickers and the Crown Packrafting Guidebook in the store.
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The Guidebook is live
If you want the most recent version of my long running guidebook to packrafting in Glacier and Bob Marshall you can have it now, here in fact, for five dollars. This is a beta release, and a rather primitive one. You pay and register your email, and I will email you a 32 page PDF…
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Escalante countdown
0830, prelude I have an old acquaintance who for decades has specialized in 2-3 week technical outings which consist of little other than day trips. He only camps away from his truck when a route cannot be fit into a day, however long. The planning and discipline required to live out of a vehicle for…
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Osprey Rev 18; discontinued brilliance
Osprey is an easy company to dislike, largely due to their unapologetically Google-esque ownership of the pack market, but more substantively because of their tendency to emphasize specialization to an absurd degree. However, they are good pack makers and brilliant pack designers, and often enough come out with a pack whose coherence moves the bar…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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