Category: Backpacking
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Thank you
I was freshly pressed this afternoon (MST), but seeing my photo of Lake Sherburne on the log-in page did not prepare me for the avalanche of comments. This blog is almost five years old, but I’ve really only taken it seriously in the last 15 months. I’ve written on many occasions that way adventures transform…
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My pack fetish
I like packs. Always have. Yes they’re perhaps more deserving of care and obsession than other items of outdoor gear, but my appreciation and interest goes far beyond the strictly practical. I bought this pack last week. A Black Diamond Bbee. While I was (until last week!) lacking in a nice perfect little pack (save…
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Wilderness racing in the Lower 48
We need to bring Classic-style racing to the lower 48. Insofar as that is possible. We should because it’s awesome, and because I think it’d be reasonably possible to approximate the experience in many important ways (but definitely not all). We because I reckon there aren’t too many essential players in that process who don’t…
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The Crown of the Continent Grand Tour
Lake McDonald and the Larches from Mt. Brown. Training for 2012 started today! Took in a speedy hike to the Mt. Brown lookout this afternoon, 1:50 up, 3;30 round trip. (4300′ of gain, 11.5 miles total). 12 meters/minute average climbing rate. Not bad for having spent the last 3 months drinking beer and fly fishing.…
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The Variegated Nature of Trails
Autumn in Glacier has been this year particularly fine and delicious. Yesterday morning I woke up at 430. Not a common occurrence, especially as I’m still in a post-Classic torpor of only wanting to go fishing and beer drinking (fishing season is about over, so I need to get back in shape). The plan was…
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Gear: Review
In continuation from yesterday.. I’ve always been interested in outdoor gear. I studied gear catalogues from a very early age, years before the internet made fetishization so convenient. We’re talking about an eight year old in Ohio, who took enthusiastic but not nearly frequent enough backpacking and camping trips with his family. I continued to…
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Simplicity: Gear
It’s too bad Ryan Jordan’s blogging is so stochastic. When he does write, it’s always worth reading and is usually one of the more thought-provoking things I’ll encounter online in that particular week. The most recent post is no exception. In it he discussed favorites bits of gear (and when I say gear I mean…
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The Bechler
“He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.” -Thoreau, “Walking” It’s autumn. Eh. The kids know what this…
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Kishenehn: how to get out more
(pronounced; kish-neen) Last night Jason asked me (to paraphrase) how I manage to get out adventuring so much. I thought it a good question, and typed a long winded answer. Today I managed to work an (almost) full day and do a 20+ mile hiking and packrafting loop, and had plenty of time to think…
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Anatomy of a bail
I’m supposed to be out there right now, in the woods walking and catching fish, rather than sitting in fleece and pajamas drinking coffee (having slept late after staying up even later, watching Jurassic Park 2 and 3 with M). But driving home last night, listening to CBC blues on the radio and thinking about…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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