Category: Fly Fishing
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Daiwa Soyokaze 27: putting the tenkara back in tenkara
It is said that the normal progression of a fly fisherman is to go from wanting to catch any fish, to wanting to catch lots of fish, to wanting to catch big fish, to wanting to catch big, challenging, hard to catch fish. Tenkara is for people who have no need to catch big fish…
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June trip report contest voting
Making a selection this time was even harder than last autumn. A truly excellent crop of reports. In the end I picked three, all of which happened in places with which I have very fond associations. I visited the Trinity, King range, and Mattole area during a college intership out of Arcata a decade ago,…
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June trip report contest (!)
Summer, whatever that may mean in your particular locale, is right around the corner. Here in NW Montana the rain has stopped, for the moment, the sun is shining and the rivers are running high. Snow is melting and the fat season of long easy days, crampons and shorts, tourists driving foolishly, and wide open…
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The ultimate partner
How to do adventures outside with your SO; a subject I’ve thought of writing about for years, and under implicit prompting from Geargal Jill I’m taking a crack at it today. It’s a desire many have, for good reason. Building a lifetime partnership and outdoor adventures both rank high on the life list of anyone…
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Osprey GrabBag: looks dumb, works good
I came upon the GrabBag by accident; didn’t even know it existed until a few weeks ago. I had been thinkering about using a small fanny pack for the GrizzlyMan, to keep map and food instantly accessible, and thought that such a thing might be useful for backpacking as well. On-the-go accessibility is an ongoing…
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Best of 2011, part 2
2011 has been an extraordinary year. If the mission of this blog is to explore the cultural consequences of personal development as driven by outdoor adventure, this should have been a good year for blogging, which it was. This time last year I wrote that day trips were bullshit, and that the packraft made further…
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A Bedrock & Paradox holiday trip guide
The best gift for an adventurer is a great plan in a brand new place and a way to get there (gas $$, plane tickets, whatever). Problem is, dialing in a destination typically takes trial and error, which is why so many vacations end up scratching the surface, doing the same old trips which might…
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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 Year in and of Water
Yep, still autumn, despite snow building in the mountains. 2011 has for me been defined by water. Snow travel, packrafting, and fly fishing have been just about all I’ve done, other stuff like biking and climbing mountains didn’t make the selection very often. Skiing was a mixed bag, mainly in that by winter’s end I…
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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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