Category: Skiing
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Adventure round-up
First, Luc et al. continue to raise the bar on fair means (human powered, self-supported) expeditions by skiing, hiking, and packrafting from Yakutat to McCarthy, climbing Mount Logan along the way. 21st century style, 18th century sensibility. Second, Joery’s trip in the Verdon Gorge looks amazing and has me reconsidering future time spent in Europe.…
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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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The ultimate partner
How to do adventures outside with your SO; a subject I’ve thought of writing about for years, and under implicit prompting from Geargal Jill I’m taking a crack at it today. It’s a desire many have, for good reason. Building a lifetime partnership and outdoor adventures both rank high on the life list of anyone…
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The little nalgenes
Home sick, with lots of snot and napping, the last day and a half. Beyond being rather inconvenient for a certain long hike coming next weekend, by now I’m just stir crazy enough to write about water bottles. Joe addressed this issue about as much as it needs to be last fall, but the all-season…
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A prince of denmark
Over half my life ago I was a teenager learning to trad climb, and my friend Adam and I were down in the Red River Gorge looking for easy leads to build our skills. We both had several years of gym fitness under our belts, just enough to be pretty dangerous. At some point on…
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On trail route finding
A new article of mine, concerning techniques for on-trail route finding, is up at BPL. A subscription is required, but this one is my personal favorite of all the work I’ve done for them as of now, published or yet-to-be published. Ideas planted in my head after Alaska last summer coalesced over the next few…
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Rossignol BC X11 v. Fischer BCX 675
I’ve discussed the conundrum that is nordic backcountry ski boots before, and no doubt will again. I’ll reprise my wish list for such a boot at the end, but given that it does not yet exist, comparing these two will have to suffice. Refer to my thoughts and pictures of the Fischer boot in this…
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Why i might be full of shit
or: Credibility and experience in blogging The Black Hole of White Canyon, January 1, 2007. Blogging has irrevocably changed the face of writing about outdoor adventure, in almost all respects for the better. The chief problem today, perhaps different from days previous in scale only, is how to allot proper credence amongst the sea of…
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Fire when you need it
Firemaking is a skill like any other. Mystique to the contrary. You’ll only really need it when conditions are most difficult, and when circumstances conspire so you forget what good technique you know. Ergo, the first second and third rules of firemaking are as mundane as they are essential: practice. I was an indifferent firemaker…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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