Category: Backpacking
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Framed (North Fork pack update)
Over the six months since I posted it my North Fork pack video has been quietly creeping along, steadily accumulating views, and quickly becoming my most viewed video that hasn’t been posted on Jill’s blog. It’s been on day and overnight trips aplenty this winter: skiing, snowshoeing, packrafting and combinations. It carries very well. But…
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Backpacking on the Moon
Amazing, amazing trip this weekend. Since we first visited back in 2005 M and I have wanted to return and explore Craters of the Moon National Monument in greater depth. To say that its vast lava flows and extinct cinder craters are a unique landscape to travel in is quite the understatement. The obvious obstacles…
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Tease
A virtual cookie to whomever knows what this is. An actual truckload of virtual cookies to whomever guesses why it’s set up in my backyard right now.
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TrailLite Designs Bandoleer pack
Thom Darrah, TrailLite owner, hooked a few BPLers up with prototypes to test. This is mine. Review thread here.
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Testing (testing)
My mission to ski the Nyack-Coal loop failed, but most everything else was a success. In short, bad snow and improperly broken-in boot liners conspired to make for a slow pace and painful feet, so I turned around. I still got to see Glacier, covered in snow but fast melting out, which can never been…
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3 Photos of 2 packs
Packing for a trip this weekend, and M thought is amusing to see the cavernous North Fork at full extension. Not so huge when cinched down, but huge for an overnight. Packraft, ski stuff, synthetic insulation. The plan: Nyack Creek and Coal Creek in Glacier. Spot link. Should be fun. Some new gear arrived this…
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Western Montana: A seasonal guide for outdoor recreation
The seasons dictate what we do outside and how we do it. Outdoor recreation is at it’s best when the intersection of equipment, terrain and weather come together to provide an experience which is aesthetically interesting and spiritually satisfying. Hauling a bike through unrideable powder or peanut butter mud does neither, nor does skiing micro-patches of summer snow…
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2011: Spring and Summer plans
Lac Superieur. Now that a plane ticket has been purchased, I can present my racing/hard trips plan through the end of summer. April 2: Whitefish Pole-Pedal-Paddle -I plan to ride to the start with skis and packraft, be DFL at the end of the boating leg, ride up to Big Mountain with all my gear,…
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The 5 reasons to buy gear
Allow me to begin here at the end: gear should be a means to an end. And not just any end, but a good end. Ryan Jordan has recently written a superlative post on just this point, building on his interpretation of what a good end should be. I agree with him, I’ve written here…
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Emm Ell Dee!!
Silnylon Simple Poncho. Stealth olive brown. Large. Batman. I’ll probably use it more as a tarp than as a poncho, but an Epic shell and poncho approach to rain gear will be worth trying, too. One more awesome thing, only the hood needs to be seam sealed, as there are no other seams!
Bedrock & Paradox 
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