Author: DaveC
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Training for the 2017 Bob Open
The Bob Open is less than six months away. If you’re thinking about making the trip this is less time than you think, and I’d recommend starting a training plan now if you have not already. (I started this post in the wee hours, after waking up to the sudden realization that I hadn’t reserved…
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Backcountry footwear for the other 3 seasons; revised
This post, written back when B&P was new to wordpress and to me being more serious about content, has endured as one of my most read. Save a few updates about specific gear, and some more evolved thoughts about foot conditioning, the text is as relevant today as it was in 2010. For those who…
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New stuff
One of the supreme pleasures in life is seeing a new landscape for the first time, when every foot and view is totally novel, and the area lacks any trace of mental map for orientation. That was what I got to do today, and it was glorious. Gunnison Gorge is a half a Grand Canyon,…
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Opt Outside; #fuckyou
Just a friendly reminder this Thanksgiving day that while it’s great you spent yesterday in mass carbon mode to get somewhere nifty so you can do rad things today and #optoutside tomorrow, the world really isn’t so simple. It would be nice if hiking, camping, and even more complex things like backpacking and mountain biking…
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Going Up
At some point in life we are told, or find out through mysterious processes, that hiking in hard and thus flatter and plainer trails where walking doesn’t require thought become preferred. This transition must come around the time our brains become complex enough, and our well of memories deep enough, to make daydreaming an option…
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Luck doesn’t exist
M and I have lived in some damn nice places over the past 13 years, but in the six days since we and our massive accompaniment of boxes rolled into Colorado I’ve had many more than the usual number of pinch me, I can’t believe we’re here moments. There was walking the border of Colorado…
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Vote no on Montana ballot initiative 177
Four years ago, while volunteering for the park service, a friend and I had an encounter with the ugly side of trapping. We had forded a river in waders and were slogging up a dry side channel, to find a tree for stashing said waders and ideally enough snow to immediately click into skis. In…
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The worst things about Montana
Necessary companion to yesterday. Feel free to take offense. 1: The food I irritate friends and coworkers almost weekly on this subject, but the thing I lament most often about Montana is not being able to get a decent Avocado for less than $1.25 and being able to count the acceptable eating institutions in a…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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