Category: Cultural critique
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2014: Hunting season in review
Today was the last day of deer, elk, and bear season in Montana, and I did not go hunting. Instead I went skiing, which was not yet very good, and enjoyed a clear and very cold day free from the pressure of a newly beloved outdoor pursuit I can only do three months a year.…
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Land of No Use
There are those who are worried that what wilderness we have is a dying commodity. Not in any literal fashion, climate change and invasive species put aside, but insofar as wilderness is a creation of the mind. When the modern information economy takes mystery out, wilderness is inevitably diminished, even if the legal Wilderness areas…
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How to behave on the internet
The other day I read on of the lowest quality things I’ve seen online in quite some time, which is saying a great deal for several reasons. I spend a lot of time online; I have a smartphone, I work in an office at a job which often necessitates a lot of downtime, and I…
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The guts of freedom
Two years ago I did not know how to gut and butcher a dead mammal. I had helped gut and butcher (the sterile, slightly dishonest term would be process) deer before, and knew how to gut a fish, but those don’t come close to being the same. I wanted to be comfortable doing this before…
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A note on poststructural wilderness
Last night I had something of a fever-dream flashback. It was no doubt enhanced by the sinus cold which has had me on the couch for the last 72 hours, but the effect was unmistakable: all of a sudden I came out of the haze of this weekends illness, through the chilly fog of coastal…
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Crave nothing more fervently
“Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.” -Nietzsche, The Wanderer and his Shadow Up to this date 2014 has been a good year for contemplating death. While as many people have no doubt died in the past nine months than…
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Hiking with ghosts
Rob Kehrer is dead. Based on reports I assume he and the other founding member of Team Heavy, Greg Mills, hiked around the Tana River canyon and put back in on the river, where Rob was quickly flipped by a boil or whirlpool, became separated from his packraft, and drowned and/or succumbed to hypothermia before he…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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