Category: Racing
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Absurd consequence
If there are many, they must be as many as they are and neither more nor less than that. But if they are as many as they are, they would be limited. If there are many, things that are are unlimited. For there are always others between the things that are, and again others between…
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June trip report contest (!)
Summer, whatever that may mean in your particular locale, is right around the corner. Here in NW Montana the rain has stopped, for the moment, the sun is shining and the rivers are running high. Snow is melting and the fat season of long easy days, crampons and shorts, tourists driving foolishly, and wide open…
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The 610 pack
All packs must have a name so I can keep them straight, and DX-40 was so cool and the race pack was too big for day trips and I can never have enough packs. 29 inches tall, 9 inches wide at the back, 6 at the front, and 8 (for the most part) deep along…
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Bob Marshall Wilderness Open: 2012 official unofficial report
Compiled and written by Dave Chenault For a comprehensive set of links to trip narratives, please see below. This report is available on Google, as well. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Open (BMWO) was devised as a test of wilderness savvy, to be held over Memorial Day weekend each year. Choosing to traverse the Bob Marshall…
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Design and construction of the Black and White pack
Dimension-Polyant DX-40. It’s been over three years since I started making whole packs mostly from scratch, and I’ve learned an enormous amount through all the hiking, packrafting, skiing and especially combinations thereof I’ve done since. I don’t care to count all the exact iterations the various packs have gone through, but as of today it…
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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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Eccentric but not insane (Dan and John weigh in)
Dan’s excellent trip report can be found at BackpackingLight. John’s is below. Me traversing the steep slope at the beginning of Headquarters Pass, which John mentions below. Dan boldly scuttled across in trail runners and Lightrek 4s. I was very glad to have an axe. Photo by Dan Durston. John’s tale: I’m not sure how…
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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…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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