Category: N.O.S.
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With a bang
First, know that I’m alright. No injuries whatsoever. On the way to work yesterday I made my routine turns through the snowy streets, routine run through the countryside, routine paranoid lane change through the profligate stop lights and sprawl of airbag alley (the northern fringe of Kalispell), and made a left on to a small…
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The king heuristic
The conversation among the group shouldn’t be, “How much risk can we take and get away with?” It should be, “How can we be 100-percent safe and still have fun?”…People say you have to go and ski powder—that’s the sickest. But maybe that’s the hype that’s killing people. -Drew Tabke I have yet to ski…
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Neither living nor dead
Last year, wolverines. This year, fishers. As in the bigger of the tree weasels. There’s never been a confirmed sighting in Glacier since the park came into being in 1910. Plenty of crusty folks in the park, young and old, have seen them, but anecdote however experienced is not science. I’ll be part of a…
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Back there
Over a decade on from high school, Ohio is no longer home, but I’ve still lived there longer than any other single place, and thus it looms large in my mind. Landscapes like the above shaped my understanding of the world. 15 years ago I sat eating lunch where the above photo was taken when…
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Forests of my Youth
Living where I do know, it is all too easy to become a terrain snob; contemptuous of the world’s more subtle forests and forgetful of how when walking outside wonder and interest is defined internally. In my youth it was very much the opposite. Growing up in Ohio I had to be the manufacturer of…
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Banff 2012: the death of the spectacular
I have in my possession an unpublished essay by Arne Naess entitled “The Spectacular- An Enemy?” According to Bill Devall, he wrote it in the mid-80s after visiting Canyonlands National Park for the first time. At the moment that binder is buried in a box under boxes down in the garage, so I cannot quote…
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Stinky November pasta
November is a rough month in the northern hemisphere. Here in the US we’re on the wrong end of daylight savings time (one of the only things Arizona does right), and caught between the end of summer and the beginning of winter. This weekend was good, with high water allowing for a float of McDonald…
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Read this blog: Out Living
There aren’t too many things which get me thinking that living up here in the Crown of the Continent is misguided and dumb. Brendan Swihart’s recent loop in Arches is one of them. Photo by Mr. Swihart. His whole blog is excellent. Check it out.
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Money for something
Most readers will be familiar with the Andrew Badenoch/77Zero/Fatbikerafting the Arctic/Kickstarter debacle. For those who are not, the short version is as follows. In January Badenoch, with no endurance or wilderness palmares that I’ve been able to dig up, went live with a funding proposal for a scandalously ambitious loop trip from Seattle to the…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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