Category: Packrafting
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A fire is a good thing to have (Greg’s BMWO report)
Photo by Greg Gedney. Greg Gedney’s excellent report can be found on Google Docs. Well worth a read, with many pictures of rarely trodden country and burly conditions. Greg ground it out in the best tradition of the intensely intrapersonal side of wilderness adventure. Well done sir.
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The Belly of the Chief
I have a new goal for the summer; becoming a better trip partner. This won’t entirely supercede training for the Wilderness Classic in the way I did last year, but given my mediocre physical condition one month out, and more importantly my different sorts of present motivations, my approach in Alaska will be different than…
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Bob Open post-game
There’s not an enormous amount left to say about the Open. yet, which hasn’t been said in the previous thread and the comments. Dan Durston had a true adventure in the best tradition of wilderness, pushing through a myriad of mental and physical obstacles to grind out a finish. For everyone else save Greg a…
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Your own kind of dumb: Bob Open DNF report
Hubris, obstinacy, self-deception. Version 1: Lingering sickness meant I couldn’t eat enough, and while I did 45 miles in 15 hours on Saturday the next morning it was obvious that I should have stayed home. I bailed as quickly and cleanly as circumstance allowed. Version 2: I’ve preferenced doing trips with others over big-miles training…
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Bob Open pre-game
72 hours ago my participation this weekend was very much in doubt. All weekend I was on the couch without much energy and a weird appetite, not a good confidence booster for such a hard trip. As I write this I’m almost back to full strength, but the ambiguity my physical condition has introduced replaces…
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The ultimate partner
How to do adventures outside with your SO; a subject I’ve thought of writing about for years, and under implicit prompting from Geargal Jill I’m taking a crack at it today. It’s a desire many have, for good reason. Building a lifetime partnership and outdoor adventures both rank high on the life list of anyone…
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Raft rehabilitation
Last year I acquired an old raft from Roman, identical to the Sherpa pictured below, but hand-made by Roman himself. Beyond a cheap option to get others out packrafting, this boat was used on the Alaska range bike traverse whose write-up in National Geographic was so influential on me as a high schooler. It’s a…
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The little nalgenes
Home sick, with lots of snot and napping, the last day and a half. Beyond being rather inconvenient for a certain long hike coming next weekend, by now I’m just stir crazy enough to write about water bottles. Joe addressed this issue about as much as it needs to be last fall, but the all-season…
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A prince of denmark
Over half my life ago I was a teenager learning to trad climb, and my friend Adam and I were down in the Red River Gorge looking for easy leads to build our skills. We both had several years of gym fitness under our belts, just enough to be pretty dangerous. At some point on…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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