Author: DaveC
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You’re going to die, Ohio boy
Buddy is a word which confounds me. Friend is, evidently, too laden a term for contemporary western men. Not that there isn’t reason. I’ve long preferred to do adventures with women, because men are all too often, and for lack of a more clinical word, douchebags. Tacit competitiveness, sexism, and the heuristic shenanigans which go…
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2013 Bob Marshall Wilderness Open: the officially unofficial report
Compiled by Dave Chenault; links to individual reports at the bottom. The 2013 Bob Open ran from the Benchmark trailhead in the southeast Bob to the Bear Creek trailhead where Highway 2 meets the Middle Fork of the Flathead. 11 people, including the first woman in the events short history, took the start. Kind weather…
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The L. E. Kennedy Memorial loop
I’m not sure if Lee Otatso Kennedy was a hiker, seeing that I just made him up, but if he was he would’ve liked this route. There were a few questions about the line, namely if it’d be possible to drop down into the Otatso drainage and how bad the bushwacking would be once down…
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The Utah Canyons Classic
A Colorado Plateau-based wilderness event in the Wilderness Classic/Bob Open mold needs to happen. The possibilities are just too great. My problem is that reasonably extensive though my travels there have been, they all took place a while ago, before I had the eyes I do now. I need your help. A course, and by…
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A noble and valid pursuit
I just finished updating the Glacier and Bob Marshall packrafting guidebook with the last few months of explorations. Some of the waters I had hoped would prove worthwhile didn’t pan out, but there have also been some truly outstanding floats done. The possibilities for quality packrafting trips in the Crown of the Continent ecosystem (i.e.…
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Tenkara season approaches
I’m a fair-weather fly fisher; I only go fishing for 4 months of the year, roughly mid-June through mid-October. I like catching trout on dry flies in clear water, and those are the months in which this pursuit is most profitable. The last few autumns I’ve thought that perhaps this year I’ll fish a longer…
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Upper level stream and river crossings
Right at the lower level of upper. In August this crossing in hardly ankle deep. Upper level stream crossings can mean two different, but not mutually exclusive things: moving water crossings higher than the knee of the person walking, and crossings far from the assistance of others. Discussed below are several levels of analysis one…
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Reading Ed in the 21st Century
Desert Solitaire is a book I almost hate to love. It is not a safe subject at parties. Ed Abbey was, in Solitaire, one of those very best writers who so easily hide tangled ideas under the narrative veneer; the result being that depth is easily overlooked. Easy examples would be the categorization of Solitaire…
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2013 Bob Marshall Wilderness Open report
Almost eight years ago I made my first visit to Glacier as an adult. M and I were a few weeks into a period of living out of our truck, and made the all day drive from Theodore Roosevelt National Park anticipating the mountains. It was early November, cold and rainy, so we did what…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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