Category: Skiing
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Another fast shoe
The Altai skis Hok, available this fall. Comes in 125cm and 145 cm lengths, looks to have a nice early rise tip, minimal sidecut, and a waist around 120cm. Metal edges, and an inset skin underfoot. I’m skeptical of the perma-skin, but everything else looks good. Of course the golden question is how much do…
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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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Testing (testing)
My mission to ski the Nyack-Coal loop failed, but most everything else was a success. In short, bad snow and improperly broken-in boot liners conspired to make for a slow pace and painful feet, so I turned around. I still got to see Glacier, covered in snow but fast melting out, which can never been…
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3 Photos of 2 packs
Packing for a trip this weekend, and M thought is amusing to see the cavernous North Fork at full extension. Not so huge when cinched down, but huge for an overnight. Packraft, ski stuff, synthetic insulation. The plan: Nyack Creek and Coal Creek in Glacier. Spot link. Should be fun. Some new gear arrived this…
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Western Montana: A seasonal guide for outdoor recreation
The seasons dictate what we do outside and how we do it. Outdoor recreation is at it’s best when the intersection of equipment, terrain and weather come together to provide an experience which is aesthetically interesting and spiritually satisfying. Hauling a bike through unrideable powder or peanut butter mud does neither, nor does skiing micro-patches of summer snow…
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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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Pin wear
The UN 72 of ski bindings. Above is a Voile Mountaineer with minimal miles. Whereas this binding (on my Guides) has many miles on it, and it shows. Still fully functional. This binding is on my first pair of Marquettes. Obviously of an older vintage, I got it used for a song at a ski…
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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…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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