Category: Racing
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Best of 2011, part 2
2011 has been an extraordinary year. If the mission of this blog is to explore the cultural consequences of personal development as driven by outdoor adventure, this should have been a good year for blogging, which it was. This time last year I wrote that day trips were bullshit, and that the packraft made further…
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2012 Wilderness Classic gear list
Luc and John racing the 2011 Classic. Photo by Tyler Johnson (check out the full album). I put together a preliminary list for next year, which is already getting some good discussion over at BPL.
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The Race Pack examined (backpacks for the woods part 4)
A perhaps illustrative case study. I built the race pack specifically for wilderness racing, the Classic next year in particular. As explicated before, the Golite Jam I used last year didn’t fit and was too big. I also wanted to make a pack as light as possible without compromising functionality or durability (or spending money,…
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My 2012 race/trip schedule
~10 miles into the 2011 Wilderness Classic. Paige Brady photo. I did not get into Hardrock in the lottery this morning, which was quite the relief. While I couldn’t ignore the numbers and would have almost had to enter Hardrock if I had got in, I’d much rather do the Classic the first year on…
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The Quiver Quantified (backpacks for the woods, part 2)
M and I currently own nine packs. When I collected them all from corners of the house a while ago, she was surprised it was so few. I say we, and she uses some of them plenty, but let me be honest: I’ve been the prime mover behind acquiring every one of them. As part…
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Thus do I refute Keith Hammer
We in America have a problem. Idiosyncracies of our wilderness preservation laws and their implementation and advocacy have (largely) bifurcated those dedicated to the outdoors as a worthy part of American culture. I’ve yet to find a more stark articulation of this than the Swan View Coalition’s Code of Responsible Recreation (link withheld to protect…
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Haglofs Ozo review
I’ve taken this evening to wrap up the final details on the Lightweight WPB jacket State of the Market Report for BPL, a project whose complexity I seriously underestimated. Testing 10 jackets with any sort of meaningful depth is not simple, and present the summation of all that time in the rain such that anyone…
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Read this blog: AK Pete is back
During the 2007 Kokopelli Trail race I kept yoyoing with this tall guy on a red Lenz with a big black pack. He’d stop to take pictures or eat in the shade of a juniper and I’d plug past, only to shortly be overtaken yet again. I lost him as he continued to diesel along…
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The reality
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Open will start Memorial Day weekend in 2012. Details can be found here.
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Wilderness racing in the Lower 48
We need to bring Classic-style racing to the lower 48. Insofar as that is possible. We should because it’s awesome, and because I think it’d be reasonably possible to approximate the experience in many important ways (but definitely not all). We because I reckon there aren’t too many essential players in that process who don’t…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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