Category: Tech
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Primus Express Spider
Meltin’ snow. My stove “quiver” needed expanding. Last year I became enamored with the Bushbuddy, a fantastic, fully enclosed wood burning stove. For quite a while I thought such things were just expensive alternatives to fires, but eventually caved because I wanted to be able to burn wood on backcountry trips during the winter. You…
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Back to the rhythm (Fischer BCX 675 boot)
Classic diagonal striding is all I used to do, as far as skiing goes. It’s an odd rhythm, with so many gangly appendages required, but like other foreign and mechanized ways of getting through the world (riding a bike!), once it becomes habit the execution is at least as satisfying as walking. When I started…
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Backcountry footwear pollemica!
Phillip heading in for a January Subway. Which was an awesome freaking trip. Go look at the photos non-longtime readers. I have an article on Fast and Light Shoulder Season footwear up at BPL today. It’s the evolution of ideas which started in this post, and were born during Le Parcour de Wild, confirmed during…
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2012 Golite Jam (50L)
Perhaps the most important lightweight backpacking pack of the past decade (a perhaps not especially glorious accolade) and one of the best quiver-of-one multisport packs anywhere got a serious facelift for the new year. It will be going up in comparison with the Thruway over the next 6 months for the BPL write up. I’ve…
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Mountain Hardwear Thruway 50
Being as particular about backpacks as I am, it’s not often that I get excited about a production pack. I’m excited about the Mountain Hardwear Thruway 50, especially since I have one next to me right now. I’ll be beating on it for an in depth BPL review, in the meantime, I posted an overview…
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Baring Creek
The St. Mary aspens are poplars for the aficionado. Another weekend, another wolverine trip. This time Sally and I were headed for Baring Creek, containing the world famous, roadside, Sunrift Gorge. The road itself is closed shortly beyond the St. Mary campground, so we had an 11 mile ski in on the road. Taken as…
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A few weeks of fat
Not the ideal position to haul skis (tails should be lashed lower). Also note modded Tubus Cargo hauling a deer leg. Now that I’ve had the Mukluk rolling for a little over two weeks, it’s time to discuss the dreaded initial impressions. I think this bike holds a lot of promise for the near future…
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A brief rant concerning proprietary buckles
It used to be that if you broke the male end of a fastex buckle, a not entirely uncommon occurrence, the only metric you needed to worry about when finding a replacement was size. All buckles, be they 1″ or 3/4″, looked like the leftmost pictured below. One buckle, or part of a buckle, reliably…
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Thermomolding for Distance
Thermomoldable ski boot liners are really cool. They’ve yet to make it into many/any boots designed for touring (horizontal miles, rather than vertical), but they should. They’re warm, act as a vapor barrier and don’t absorb much moisture, and with care and proper technique can be impressively flexible as regards fit, both for a variety…
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All the hats
I like hats, and my collection often and properly earns me derision at the hands of M. Rather than deny the dorkiness inherent in this, I embrace it. I’ve de facto pared the collection down quite a bit lately, such that a mere five hats get regular use. They are pictured below, and a discussion…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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