Category: Packrafting
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The Indeterminacy of Translation
“…in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind.” -W.V. Quine Sandy and Larry descending to the river. This past weekend, with three others solicited from packrafting.org, I paddled what might be the premier 2-3 (or more) day packrafting trip in the lower 48. In…
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The Future of Youtube
Not Youtube generally, but the corner of it in which I am most interested: first-person-made outdoor adventure videos. They’ve revolutionized the outdoor industry. Before, video of any quality at all required big gear, and this big teams and big money. Now the best adventure video is increasingly on the leading edge of credibility (see the…
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Quiet secrets
Pre-park artifact in Glacier NP. I was all set to go down the South Fork of the Flathead this (for me 3-day) weekend. Hiking, boating, fly fishing, and in sharp contrast to last year, warm weather. Work got done last week, we bought a second car Thursday, and Friday afternoon I ran around, bought food,…
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Paddles
Top: 200 cm all-‘glass Aquabound Shred (40 oz); Bottom: 210 cm ‘glass and carbon Werner Shuna (30.8 oz). I got a new paddle, and it’s amazing. The Shuna was supposed to maybe, just make it in time to go to Alaska, but a train deraillment in the Twin Cities (seriously, it said so on the…
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A Glacier Classic
Lake McDonald to St. Mary Lake. hiking over Gunsight Pass and packrafting the upper St. Mary river. I’ve been meaning to get to this one for a while. The first 4 miles of hiking are in cedar forest, the next two open up with cliffs and alpine meadows on the way to Sperry Chalet. Shoveling…
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2011 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic race report
“The will to power would rather will nothingness than not will.” -Nietzsche Paige Brady, and Luc Mehl the zombie. The difficulty I’m having beginning this report well reflects the race itself; the stakes I set myself for both are very high. While in Alaska a few people asked me, both before and after, where I…
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Revisiting the shadow
Lake McDonald. Apologies for the dramatic title; and while shadows (for once present, as this weekend is not overcast and rainy) played a prominent role in this latest trip, I am primarily speaking about that concept of the shadow found in one of my favorite poems. It took far too long, and far too much…
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Taking stock: day trips are bullshit
I’ve had a few ideas washing around my head for a while, and wanted to share some on my new favorite music, and result of both is the following video. Going through the material I realized that I’ve had quite a good 2011 thus far, and it also struck me that the numerous multiday trips…
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The hardest trip I’ve ever done (yet)
Let me begin at the end. After catching a wrong turn and finally making it out of Holland Creek canyon, the horse trail contoured around the hillside and dropped into the foothills. The lake was somewhere off to the right in the haze of lodgepoles. I had 1.5 to 2 miles left. My feet hurt…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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