Category: Racing
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Local bullshit
BS item #1: Me being easy to spot last Saturday. BS item #2: Spurious “breakthrough agreement” on Bison management in Yellowstone As I’ve written before, the argument that brucellosis is carried by bison to cattle with detrimental results is a red herring. Ranchers dislike bison because they stomp their fences and generally disrupt the illusion…
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Whitefish P3athlon race report
(I’m inventing the above appellation because Pole-Pedal-Paddle Triathlon is both ungainly and in the wrong order for this event.) The weather this morning and early afternoon was good for doing a race on a fairly innocuous course, which is to say it was 85% crap. The other 15% were left out because it wasn’t raining…
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The Junk Show
Tomorrow is the Pole-Pedal-Paddle triathlon up in Whitefish, and I’ve resolved to get full value by riding there and back and hauling all my gear. Speaking of full value, the forecast calls for 40s and 100% chance of precip. It took some thinkering and futzing, but past experience hauling skis and fly rods in the…
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2011: Spring and Summer plans
Lac Superieur. Now that a plane ticket has been purchased, I can present my racing/hard trips plan through the end of summer. April 2: Whitefish Pole-Pedal-Paddle -I plan to ride to the start with skis and packraft, be DFL at the end of the boating leg, ride up to Big Mountain with all my gear,…
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I wanna ski like Luc
Luc Mehl, of the Selway packraft trip and awesome ski videos, has written an article for BPL disclosing many of the secrets of winning the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic. One of the better reasons to pay BPL money I’ve yet to come across. Timely too, as the first thaw of the year has come…
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The 5 reasons to buy gear
Allow me to begin here at the end: gear should be a means to an end. And not just any end, but a good end. Ryan Jordan has recently written a superlative post on just this point, building on his interpretation of what a good end should be. I agree with him, I’ve written here…
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A few things in winter
M in the snow last weekend. The larger context. This little zone has a good view (Missions in background, right). 1) Danni is competing in the Susitna 100 this weekend. Follow her here. Cheer on Jill and Beat (also foot), and Woodchuck (bike), too. 2) Backcountry Magazine reviewed fat waxless skis. They’re shitty little reviews…
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Cost/Benefit
The question which is, when attached to outdoor gear, the most relevant (and certainly most interesting) of all. Is item X worth it? The first photo ever posted on Bedrock & Paradox: me riding my old Gunnar Rockhound on Mt Elden, AZ in the summer of 2006. It’s a good point of departure. wondering if…
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