Category: Backpacking
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Bison meat storage
The only difference between meat storage for the upcoming bison hunt and any other hunt is needing to store a lot more meat, and the need to keep it away from bears. Which explains the pile of meat care equipment shown below: eight game bags, and 300 feet of paracord. Paracord isn’t the lightest or…
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Bison packs
Beyond rifles (maybe) and a whole lot of gamebags (to be discussed soon) there’s not much bison hunting demands beyond the pursuit of deer or elk, save perhaps when it comes to your backpack. In a few weeks we can expect to carry out the equivalent of between 3 and 4 mature elk, which will…
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Premium baselayers: what you get
For the last three years my one-sized solution to any temps above really cold has been the original version of the Sitka LW Core hoody. With ~100 grams/meter 100% poly bicomponent (grid inner) and a trim, simple fit it is the shirt I spent close to decade waiting for. A decade ago baselayer fabric wasn’t…
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Looking
Residential buildings in Montana generally don’t have air conditioning, making the 5-8 weeks each year when night lows don’t go into the mid-50s or less a period to be endured, with windows wide open. So it stood out like a stick cracked deep in shadowy, still lodgepole when last week we woke cold and with…
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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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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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