Category: Backpacking
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TrailLite Designs Bandoleer pack review
Back in the spring Thom Darrah at TrailLite Designs offered free review prototypes of a new superultralight pack to members. I was fortunate enough to be selected. Unfortunately, our late winter and training for the Classic didn’t let me use it too much. The Bandoleer pack is an exacting, specialized tool. It is designed for,…
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A Question of Scale
Paige emailed me today asking about the progress of the Alaska move. The real and only answer is that I’ve been thinking about it, a lot. She did attach her and Luc’s argument in the affirmative. (I heart Ronald Jenkees.) That argument, in more prosaic terms, is that Alaska has big wilderness of a kind…
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1/3 of a Jam (this one’s for you, Eric)
With huge photos for maximized investigative ease. Eric was disappointed to learn, back in July, that I was using a commercial pack for the Classic. He surely knows that the mind, once enlightened, can never rest. And he is thus not surprised by the developments detailed herein. I really like a lot about the Jam. …
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Go get it
Tom catching Bill on film, last September. We’re entering the golden period of the year, when days still stretch long enough for leisure and contemplation but the light in low and close enough to winter to provide good contrast. Food for both photography and recollection. I had cause to search through the autumnal blog archives…
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The Indeterminacy of Translation
“…in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind.” -W.V. Quine Sandy and Larry descending to the river. This past weekend, with three others solicited from packrafting.org, I paddled what might be the premier 2-3 (or more) day packrafting trip in the lower 48. In…
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16 hours
TrailLite Designs, modified. Those tires have been good to us, too. Sometimes you just have to get out. To make it happen. As I was driving home early this morning local NPR was telling me about a winter weather warning above 6500′ this evening. We’re sure to have many sunny days to come, but the…
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A Northern Traverse
Funny looks: Nansen, Kate, me, M. My family has been in town this week, and with mom’s knee making backpacking out of her picture, it was up us kids to see Glacier in prime summer. Permits are hard to come by, and Kate and I woke up early last Sunday to be at the office…
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TR contest update
First two entries in the contest are in, and they’ve already set the bar high. Dan Ransom did some hiking, and took some superlative photos, in the Uintas. (Only major range in the lower 48 which runs W-E.) Josh Spice, of whose blog I was previously unaware, (finally) did a great trip in the western…
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The Future of Youtube
Not Youtube generally, but the corner of it in which I am most interested: first-person-made outdoor adventure videos. They’ve revolutionized the outdoor industry. Before, video of any quality at all required big gear, and this big teams and big money. Now the best adventure video is increasingly on the leading edge of credibility (see the…
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Summer Trip Report contest
M photo. Summer is in full swing here in the northern Rockies. We haven’t had a day not in the upper 70s or higher for weeks, which means that summer is almost over. Last year we got snowed on two of three days of Labor Day weekend (albeit only above 6000′). Summer is high adventure…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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