Category: Packrafting
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The monster table
Top is locust burl and epoxy, the sides finished with slow cure epoxy to seal the pokies, the face sanded to 1500 grit and finished with linseed oil. Legs are pieces of a spalted maple slab that started in my care as a cutting board, but had shakes that just wouldn’t behave themselves, so it…
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South Fork November debrief
I’ve long wanted to float the South Fork of the Flathead in all 9 months I reckon it is ever floatable, read not frozen, those being March through November, with both March and November not providing good conditions every year. This year was obviously a good year for November, and November was the last month…
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The million dollar hat
Something on an exaggeration; but retail, this hat costs 55 dollars. Which seems excessive, even/especially in light of standard Pgucc truckers going for 35-39 dollars. Prior to this, my favorite foam truckers, which I find indespensible almost every day of the year, were the sort I got for free at trade shows or found for…
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Alpacka Caribou review
When we bought an Alpacka Caribou this past winter, to replace our slower and whitewater-poor Double Duck, bikerafting capability was far down the list. Another Explorer 42 could have easily been justified, as it has been so capable with multiple people, on white or flat water. The 42 is a bit much paddled solo, and…
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Things I made this year: Olivewood side table
Being a therapist I need a couch, and that couch needs a place for the lamp and folks’ coffee. The olive was a treat to myself earlier this year, as the 5ish foot length (of the most figured and funky stuff they had) cost a cool 70 bucks, which before I got into the intricacies…
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Smith River alone
The Smith is, for the time being, the only river in Montana which requires a permit. This has been the case since 1989, and the 59 mile “scenic” and mostly roadless stretch is now a state park, with a lottery for the probable floating season of April through early July, and fairly long odds (less…
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Stuff I made last year: reclaimed wood pedestal desk
I moved to a new job last year, which provided a number of reasons to not write here. It also provided a reason to need a new desk, one being the small corner of my new office into which a desk best fit. Being a psychotherapist now, typing or anything-ing at a desk only occupies…
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Tenderfoot Creek packrafting
(update January 2024) Tenderfoot Creek is the largest west-running drainage in the Little Belt mountains. Like the mountains themselves, it is a unique and somewhat obscure place. It has a public lands story which is worth reading about. As detailed last week, I’ve been mulling this post for a while. I discovered (for myself) floating…
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Patagonia STP Hoody; final thoughts
I’ve been using the Stretch Terre Planing hoody almost daily, and almost exclusively, for 18 months. It has proved to be as ideal a windshirt as I can imagine, without falling into hyperbolic hopes concerning future fabrics. As I detailed in the post last year, my windshirt quest has over the past decade consisted in…
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2022 Bob Open un/official report
The 2022 Open started at Blackleaf Canyon on the Rocky Mountain Front, and ran either to the Rattlesnake trailhead outside Missoula, or looped back to finish at the start, with a mandatory checkpoint at the confluence of Youngs and Danaher Creeks. 9 folks took the start, with several planning for alternate routes. 2022 had started…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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