Category: The Adventures of Bear and Cloud
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4 months
At the second snack stop Little Bear had a fit; screaming as often as breath would permit. Was he hungry? Cold? Sick of being bounced over potholes and rocks in the bike trailer? Four month olds can’t answer these questions, not because they can’t talk but because they can’t parse concepts from emotions, so I…
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Little Bear goes deer hunting
I’d been running this outlandish idea through my head since before LB was born, and practicing for months. How to hunt deer with an infant in tow? Two options were obvious, each with advantages and disadvantages. Carrying the baby in a sling, with a pack and rifle, was possible, but taking a shot would require…
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Twelve
Twelve years ago that morning we had been in a hotel in Vegas, me flipping through the Yellow Pages and calling wedding chapels at 9 in the morning. Twelve years later we were in a tent under the ponderosas back from the rim near Bryce Canyon, sun coming up slowly on a cold and clear…
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Little Bear rides the wind
We still haven’t taken Little Bear backpacking, which I feel bad about. He’s proven to be a good sleeper, but still fusses and cries unpredictably and fairly often, especially during nighttime diaper changes. Frankly, I still can’t get it out of my head what a fantastic predator call his wailing is, and thus we’ve been…
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Little Bear goes to Granite Park
Some places are a big deal. Even after his best (longest) night of sleep yet, it is still really easy to stay home and avoid the dis-ease that comes with doing anything new. But that’s not very fun. What used to be a simple and rather prosaic, if exceptionally scenic, dayhike is now a somewhat…
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Clearness
As you may have heard, we had a lot of fires this summer. At first the Reynolds Creek fire in Glacier was merely a curiosity; it didn’t disturb any plans we had, and was a novel alteration in a landscape we loved. Then the big lightning storm blew in the second week of August, hundreds…
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Six weeks
Six weeks ago today Little Bear was born. A procrastinator like his mother, he was almost a full week late, which was not entirely welcome during a summer which was unrelentingly hot, in a state where almost no one (us included) has air conditioning. So it was a relief Sunday afternoon when contractions became intense…
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15 days
Little Bear (aka the kid) is due in 15 days. With no immediate signs of arrival, but with very hot weather, a very pregnant M, and some caution due we took a 28 hour vacation to a cabin up the North Fork, and around Glacier generally. When it’s 99 and you don’t have air conditioning…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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