Category: N.O.S.
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omfg
Packrafting rules. I was pretty certain it did, but now I know for certain. I hiked up and ran the stretch of Rattlesnake Creek from Fraser Creek down to the parking area (where Woods Gulch comes in on this map). I was going to go a bit further, but could see three river wide logs…
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Wear your helmet
And not just if you’re doing bunch sprints. On the way home yesterday afternoon I had two asshole driver encounters in the space of a kilometer; the first a suburban passing me six inches to my left on Higgins just south of the bridge (the bike lane disappears so I take the whole lane, which…
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Take me to your leader
M tried to hide behind her hair, so she got the inflation bag. Out the door at 615 this morning to play on the river. This is going to be fun.
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Sun
The fates cooperates with us: we both had Sunday and most of Monday off work(s), and the best weather in over a month in which to enjoy it. We had planned on riding up the closed to cars Going-to-the-Sun road, hiking to the snowline, and skiing Swiftcurrent Peak, with a campout near Granite Park chalet. …
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A trip I’d like to do soon
Aren’t they all… But first, some thing I haven’t and have done on this gorgeous, sunny Saturday: I have not:-gone skiing-received a packraft in the mail (boo… ;)) I have:-ridden my singlespeed-cut the grass-changed the oil and tranny fluid on the truck-done some sewing-wrenched on bikes-shopped for a Glacier National Park trip on which we’re…
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The Big Shaggy
David Brooks has been flat lately (on May 31 he actually wrote “At some point somebody’s going to have to reach a national consensus on the role of government.” !?), but not this week. Of course, it’s easy for me to agree with something with which I already agree. I’ve been meaning to write thank…
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Skiing still rules
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12195639&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Intelligence gathering has informed me that the raft has shipped. Question: will it be here by the weekend. If so: day rafting. If not, skiing. But where to ski? Many choices. I also finally bit it and put in those annoying as hell scrambled word deals to post. Japanese bots can, amusing though they…
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Skiing rules
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12329835&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 But why? As was discussed (on the trip) yesterday, a day of backcountry skiing can entail carrying your heavy gear up to a sufficient altitude, thin cover, gear damaged on rocks, bushwacking, flailing, falling, wet hands, high winds, a wet butt, and snow that is only marginally skiable (given your or any skill set).…
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Skiing, and a way to cook chicken
I went back up St. Marys Peak for the second Saturday in a row, this time with a good crew and visibility. Why twice? It has the highest TH in the Bitterroot, and thus the least amount of hiking for the skiing. It’s also a very aesthetic mountain that sticks out just a bit further…
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Wolves and bears
If you’re interested in the above, and especially if you’re obsessed with Yellowstone as I am, then this documentary is a must watch. This is not a bear, it’s a bison, the camp bison at lake camp on the Thorofare trip last month. As the documentary demonstrates, you can’t talk about bears and wolves (or…
Bedrock & Paradox 