Category: North Fork Packs
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Fashion and the delams
Challenge’s Ultraweave fabrics have seen impressively broad acceptance this winter, with companies as diverse as Pa’lante and Stone Glacier using it, and companies like MLD and Seek Outside moving to make it a core part of their pack line ups. As I found out this past summer, the specs are impressive, and the marketing equally…
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Things from 2021
Astute readers may have noticed that, back in mid spring, photo quality here took a turn. The previous fall my long standing iPhone 5se took a dive (literally, on main stream in Escalante) and after 4 months of tape holding chunks of the screen in, reliability mandated a new phone. I’d spent the winter putting…
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A daypack
After being so impressed with Ultraweave I naturally wanted to make several/a number of bags out of it. My affinity for burlier pack fabrics goes back to the very beginning, both because I know that many of my favored activities shred lighter pack fabrics, and (more relevantly) because I have an aesthetic preference for things,…
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Green straps
We have a new packraft strap color; emerald, with tan buckle. The green is a hair more vibrant than pictured above, soothing, but extra-natural enough that it won’t disappear if dropped in the bushes. Rainbow will remain an option, and I have one set of gold straps still hanging around. We also added, after making…
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The next year
I did not much miss travel this past year. Or, to be more precise, I was more than content with staying in Montana (two trips excepted), and ran out of both energy and creativity before I ran out of options. As I think about 2021, my eye keeps coming back to the home state, and…
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Much thanks
In spite of, or because of, it all, there are many objects for thank today. I want to thank all of you. With few exceptions writing has been tough this year. With a head crowded enough that bare basics are generally daunting enough, and big, unpleasant, hard to grasp things doing that clogging, putting thoughts…
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Evolution of the Tamarisk: Shoulder Straps
First: what the hell is happening with those packs, maan? A lot. Unfortunately, almost none of that is helping to get you a pack faster. While the pandemic hasn’t impacted our family as directly or egregiously as it could, or still might, it has made the world more complicated. I’ve been and remain on a…
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Packrafting the Crown of the Continent, revised
When it comes to packrafting the next three months have excellent potential. A pretty good winter in the Glacier and the Bob has turned into a darn good spring, with plenty of water yet to be released. Not necessarily exceptional, but if May doesn’t prove too warm, good flows could persist into August. It seems…
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Evolution of the Tamarisk: features
Or; as few things as possible.Backpack features don’t make up the majority of a packs weight, but they do make up the overwhelming majority of the weight which is easily negotiable. There is only so much weight to be shed with material (before you sacrifice durability), only so much with suspension or frame elements (before…
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The Bob bag
Lets get this out of the way: I won’t make you one of these. Working with these fabrics and with stretchy Climashield is not something I find fun. This design is straightforward and quick to make, so create your own ugly. Ever since my first Wilderness Classic nearly a decade ago I’ve been turning this…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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