Category: Backpacking
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Money for something
Most readers will be familiar with the Andrew Badenoch/77Zero/Fatbikerafting the Arctic/Kickstarter debacle. For those who are not, the short version is as follows. In January Badenoch, with no endurance or wilderness palmares that I’ve been able to dig up, went live with a funding proposal for a scandalously ambitious loop trip from Seattle to the…
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Skis, ski swaps, mounts, and demounts
Though the start of a real ski season could still be over two months away, it is ski swap time in most mountain towns. I still have a hard time getting my head ’round how expensive these fancy sticks can be, and generally prefer to spend money on trips rather than gear for trips, so…
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Yellowstone NP winter use plan, Comment
Yellowstone National Park is in the final public comment period for their new(est) winter use plan. Given how long this process has taken, and the good chance of it being controversial, comment now. Whichever plan is settled upon is likely to be in effect for a while. You may comment (easily) and read the very…
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The 6-year sock roundup
An inevitable part of moving, beyond surliness and interrupted internet access (and thus blog posts) is a reexamination of all your possessions. Or perhaps it is really a first examination, carrying something up the steps in a shopping bag does not rate for introspection compared to carrying everything in an endless train of boxes. The…
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Third annual Kishenehn autumnal equinox
“I’m a sucker for knock-you-upside-the-head grandeur as much as the next guy, but over the years I’ve learned to prefer slightly less spectacular places with wilder character, where the animals don’t come for handouts, they come for prey. That’s Kishenehn.” –Aaron Teasdale “While every day in the teeming lands around Kishenehn carries the unpredictable, kinetic…
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Why I picked a MegaLight
The search for an ideal main fleet shelter continues. I was never entirely happy with the Shangrila 2: lack of broadside wind stability and the need for two poles. What floor space it does present is quite useable (and Golite is foolish if the rumors of it being discontinued are true), but there isn’t all…
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Camp Corsa review
The Camp Corsa is light. 10oz flat in 70cm. It self-arrests and belays pretty well. If that is all you need in an axe, which is to say you’ll carry it a lot, use it occasionally, and climb with it hardly at all, then the Corsa will suit you well. If you plan on climbing…
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Summer’s End
Mineral Creek from the headwaters. All things must go. We’ve two weeks before the equinox, but last night dipped well below freezing down in town, the aspens are yellowing on the gravel bars, and the highest of the larches are doing the same above 7k. Most definitively our backpack from Logan to Kintla, staying at…
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Heavenly creatures
A cliche title for a (by my previous standards) cliche outing. Ali and Ranger Megan had an idea; climb Heaven’s Peak from Camas Creek. Perhaps there would be no bushwacking. Why not? M came home from work Saturday night with a nasty headache which had not abated by our 0430 wakeup, so I went by…
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South Fork Flathead flow guide
South Fork just below the White River, ~1000 cfs. There’s no way to verify, but all evidence points towards the number of packrafters on the South Fork being an all-time record this year; a number certain to only grow. I’ve been getting lots of questions concerning what flow levels are best and what speeds to…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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