Category: Skiing
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Sperry check
Amber, Danni and I headed up yesterday to check on Sperry Chalet is Glacier. Make sure it was still there and all. Unfortunately what with the cold and blowing snow I neglected to take actual photos of the actual chalet. So you’ll have to take my word that it’s alright With effectively no snow low…
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The Smaller Things
M skiing into the Wapiti Cabin, Gallatin National Forest. When discussing outdoor adventure, I do not think I am the only person who is quite likely to irritate, condescend to, and erratically yet predictably annoy my significant other. There is an archetype, advanced by powerful forces, that the ideal romantic partnership involves and perhaps revolves…
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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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Altai Hok review up
My review of the 125 cm Altai Hok is up at BPL. If I do say so, it’s one of the better gear reviews I’ve yet written. Still waiting on my pair of 145cm Hoks to arrive from China. That, and snow to merit using them. Seems like the snow is thin and horrendous just…
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A Bedrock & Paradox holiday trip guide
The best gift for an adventurer is a great plan in a brand new place and a way to get there (gas $$, plane tickets, whatever). Problem is, dialing in a destination typically takes trial and error, which is why so many vacations end up scratching the surface, doing the same old trips which might…
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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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Winter clothing systems
As a follow-up to this morning’s post: some thoughts on winter clothing systems. Outdoor ought to always be a system, and that system should always be crafted to best cope with a specific set of conditions in the way in which you commonly encounter them. As discussed this morning, the former requires an accurate assessment…
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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…
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The Year in and of Water
Yep, still autumn, despite snow building in the mountains. 2011 has for me been defined by water. Snow travel, packrafting, and fly fishing have been just about all I’ve done, other stuff like biking and climbing mountains didn’t make the selection very often. Skiing was a mixed bag, mainly in that by winter’s end I…
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Simplicity: Gear
It’s too bad Ryan Jordan’s blogging is so stochastic. When he does write, it’s always worth reading and is usually one of the more thought-provoking things I’ll encounter online in that particular week. The most recent post is no exception. In it he discussed favorites bits of gear (and when I say gear I mean…
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