Category: N.O.S.
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Why do people dislike (fear) bison?
(I’m fully embracing my lefty impulses today.) http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=124890977&m=125030039&t=audio I do not believe that the bison in the story (above) would have been subject to such ire had they been any other species. Bison are what cattle ought to be, a source of food that is sustainable in North America. Bison are also a reminder of…
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Pop the corks
Ladies and gentlemen, we have health care! [3/22 add.]: I don’t purport to be knowledgable enough to argue for why the US needs a revised health care system, and I certainly don’t understand all that the bill(s) will do. The most succinct argument in that realm has been made by Uwe Reinhardt, as epitomized in…
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Lolo Luau
I competed in a ski race today, and came in second (out of three guys). It was part of the Montana Backcountry Alliance’s Lolo Luau party, and it was good. The ladies charge to the finish. I won a gift certificate for one night (for one person) at the Altoona Ridge Lodge, which is also…
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Relapsing
This week has been a pretty good one. I’ve decided to hit the reset button on my portfolio; start the organizational part over from stratch, use some of what I’ve written, toss a bunch, and make the whole thing a lot shorter. The resulting respite has let me do other things, like give my classes…
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Skiing
Finally, some stuff from Yellowstone four days ago. The black knight rides again, but not for long. In 20 minutes we were in short sleeves, doing meadowskipping laps on corn in aspen groves. Spring is here. We unknowingly headed towards the Gneiss Creek bear management area, which is closed to human travel from March 10…
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Shackleton
One of my classes this semester is Practice of Institutional Leadership, which is a highly relevant topic for us. Back in Arizona dealing with colleagues was always more frustrating in the end than dealing with students. For one of our projects we’re reading Alfred Lansing’s Endurance, which I’d never actually read before, and being quizzed…
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Race Across the Sky
Between meetings and endless paper writing, which has yet to wrapped up for the day, I snuck out and caught the Thursday Night Ride crew. Rebecca Rusch is doing a grassroots, little mountain town (her words) tour of Race Across the Sky right now, and she brought the show to Missoula this evening.A have a…
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Changing plans
Two inconvenient things have come about recently: 1: M (we) can only afford a very limited amount of time off, both because I’m making no money right now, and because her job is very busy and not really letting anyone take time off. 2: My portfolio is not going well*, and the presentation and final…
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Snow/Pack
It snowed last night, and this morning!!! Huzzah! All of this was dead bare 12 hours previous. Looks like I need to get my school shit further in order so that dawn patrol at Lolo can be put back into rotation tomorrow. It hasn’t been up at all in 2010, as the snow has just…
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Be careful out there
http://www.youtube.com/v/LHmkiRe72HY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1 This was sent out by the local avalanche advisory this morning. It’s worth going to the end of the video, when the slide they trigger with the cornice runs over their tracks from yesterday. The ~week of really warm weather we’ve had seems to have been enough to loosen shit up, without actually starting…
Bedrock & Paradox 