Category: Packrafting
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2016; 10 photos
The first thing I can remember about 2016 was not sleeping, at least not for more than 90 minutes at a stretch, in early January during Little Bear’s rather spectacular six month sleep regression, which coincidentally or not happened on a trip to Iowa. That has been the first story of the year, the extent…
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Seek Outside BT2 v. Silvertip
I do not think I could overstate how enjoyable, educational, and flattering the past month at my new job has been. Enjoyable because the crew at Seek Outside operates with both integrity and joy in equal measure. Educational because, whatever I may or may not know about using gear outside, there are many things about…
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The DST
A flat tarp isn’t always the shelter I pick, but it is my favorite. Most of the time I like the un-futzing of a mid for severe weather and pitching on snow, but like most people I’ll take a calm night with a colorful, visible sunrise 4 times out of 5. For that a tarp…
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How to get free gear
I’m finally on the other side of the coin. As one of the main folks at Seek Outside who sifts through and arbitrates requests for free stuff from the media and general public, I have in the last few weeks gotten to sit in the seat I used to be looking at from a distance,…
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Training for the 2017 Bob Open
The Bob Open is less than six months away. If you’re thinking about making the trip this is less time than you think, and I’d recommend starting a training plan now if you have not already. (I started this post in the wee hours, after waking up to the sudden realization that I hadn’t reserved…
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Backcountry footwear for the other 3 seasons; revised
This post, written back when B&P was new to wordpress and to me being more serious about content, has endured as one of my most read. Save a few updates about specific gear, and some more evolved thoughts about foot conditioning, the text is as relevant today as it was in 2010. For those who…
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The best things about Montana
In vague order of preference, because in two months we’ll at long last be back on the edge of the Colorado Plateau, living in western Colorado. When we moved to Montana eight years it was for me to attend graduate school, the University of Montana was the best place to offer me admission, and Montana…
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Cowboy Coffee redux
Two years ago I detailed my preferred method of making cowboy coffee in the field, and advocated for it as the all around best method. Plenty of articles about backcountry coffee have come out since, but there is still no new news here. Via is convenient (especially as it is quite palatable cold), but expensive…
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Sierra Designs Elite Cagoule review
I’ve been putting off writing this for a month or more, until I had it on through a good solid half+ day rain. But walking out earlier this week in two hours of steady rain, I realized that due to terrain and preference I just don’t hike in that sort of thing very often. Maybe…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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