Category: Packrafting
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The Year in and of Water
Yep, still autumn, despite snow building in the mountains. 2011 has for me been defined by water. Snow travel, packrafting, and fly fishing have been just about all I’ve done, other stuff like biking and climbing mountains didn’t make the selection very often. Skiing was a mixed bag, mainly in that by winter’s end I…
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Futures of the Packraft (Alpacka Yukon Yak review)
I’ve had my Yak since June of last year. It’s been paddled in almost every month of the year, on exploratory creeks and well-known big rivers, first descents, first packraft descents, day trips, big trips, and as every packraft should be, in Alaska. I finally put a hole in it this past weekend (easily patched…
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Packrafting McDonald Creek
McDonald Creek, roadside in Glacier, is closed to boating April-October to protect Harlequin Duck nesting (and to keep tubers from killing themselves). In March the creek is usually frozen out, and getting enough rain to up the levels in October is a transient moment. Fortunately this week, everything came together. Today I had just enough…
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Simplicity: Gear
It’s too bad Ryan Jordan’s blogging is so stochastic. When he does write, it’s always worth reading and is usually one of the more thought-provoking things I’ll encounter online in that particular week. The most recent post is no exception. In it he discussed favorites bits of gear (and when I say gear I mean…
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More pointless bullshit
I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. -David Foster…
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Kishenehn: how to get out more
(pronounced; kish-neen) Last night Jason asked me (to paraphrase) how I manage to get out adventuring so much. I thought it a good question, and typed a long winded answer. Today I managed to work an (almost) full day and do a 20+ mile hiking and packrafting loop, and had plenty of time to think…
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Anatomy of a bail
I’m supposed to be out there right now, in the woods walking and catching fish, rather than sitting in fleece and pajamas drinking coffee (having slept late after staying up even later, watching Jurassic Park 2 and 3 with M). But driving home last night, listening to CBC blues on the radio and thinking about…
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A Question of Scale
Paige emailed me today asking about the progress of the Alaska move. The real and only answer is that I’ve been thinking about it, a lot. She did attach her and Luc’s argument in the affirmative. (I heart Ronald Jenkees.) That argument, in more prosaic terms, is that Alaska has big wilderness of a kind…
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1/3 of a Jam (this one’s for you, Eric)
With huge photos for maximized investigative ease. Eric was disappointed to learn, back in July, that I was using a commercial pack for the Classic. He surely knows that the mind, once enlightened, can never rest. And he is thus not surprised by the developments detailed herein. I really like a lot about the Jam. …
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Go get it
Tom catching Bill on film, last September. We’re entering the golden period of the year, when days still stretch long enough for leisure and contemplation but the light in low and close enough to winter to provide good contrast. Food for both photography and recollection. I had cause to search through the autumnal blog archives…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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