Author: DaveC
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How to start packrafting
Many thanks to those who in the last 48 hours have pushed the Car Camping sticker into competition with the Home sticker. The later is still leading, but not by much. Today is the last day where a sticker purchase will come with an entry into the pack raffle, so there’s that. The first…
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How the Kifaru Duplex Works
When it comes to modern, internal frame load haulers for big game hunting Kifaru has defined the genre and, web traffic and analytics would have one assume, sells more than any of their competitors, by a considerable margin. Recently I had a chance to borrow an older Duplex frame and spend a decent amount of…
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Echo Park
The water would have been right up there. It’s a thought that hovers 500 feet overhead and permeates what would otherwise be an overly lucent place, a pinch of silt dissolved in a pint of champagne. Echo Park was named by Major Powell, and might have been the first occasion for the 1869 river trip…
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This is not a business
But I am asking you to buy things. Back in 2010 the end of grad school and move to a new place, with what was finally and undeniably a real job, properly prompted introspection. One prominent result was upgrading this blog to WordPress and taking it far more seriously. What I’ve gotten from that commitment…
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2017 Bob Open, planning from afar
As things stand today, the family and I will almost certainly be at the start of the 2017 Bob Open, if for no other reason than we rented the (superlatively gorgeous) forest service cabin at the start for the nights of the 26th and 27th. I’m less certain I’ll actually start the course, but knowing…
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Escalante River snap judgment
Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains. ― Gustave Flaubert The Highway 12 gauge is almost useless. During my trip on the Escalante this past weekend it hovered around 4 cfs, with a brief bump up to 12, a surge that likely passed me as I slept in the…
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Upper Level Stream Crossings, updated
A post Philip put up the other day temporarily boosted traffic to this post from 2013, prompting me to give it a re-read. One of the best things about this website is being able to delve into the past and get a little taste of what my life was like then. In this case, coming…
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Those Needles
The Colorado Plateau has endless hidden corners, more than can be understood in one human life, but from the distance of inexperience most of them seem like variations on a theme. And rock and sand and emaciated vegetation can only form so many combinations. This is as false as it is true, and the variations…
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The importance of bikes Outside
There was a time, within the last decade, when Outside Magazine was the bastion of quality in outdoor writing and journalism. They published a wide range of writers, on a wide range of subjects, notably giving Steven Rinella his start well before hunting was anything close to mainstream, and publishing Sebastian Junger well before “perfect…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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