Category: The Adventures of Bear and Cloud
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You gotta ask
Because sometimes you might get lucky, this time they might say yes. Especially in Arizona, where snow passes on like doubt over lunch options. We’d never stayed at Indian Gardens, a mere 4.5 miles from and 3k below the South Rim, but of all the quasi-frontcountry campgrounds within the NPS, the ones “hardcore” backpackers are…
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20 months
What have we learned in the last 20 months? That when Little Bear is outside most of each day, every day, life is pretty simple. His appetite for motion is insatiable, and the world of streets and four walls doesn’t frame that very easily. That people are even more ready to snap judge others parenting…
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The tranquil and ridiculous
The Colorado Plateau specializes in blending the sublime and the ridiculous, the tranquil and the absurd. The rules one finds elsewhere in nature generally apply, but in the high desert are often bent, to the point of breaking. Canyons get narrower as they get bigger, seemingly dry sand eats your shoes and knees with no…
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Osprey Poco AG; my final word
A quality kid carrying backpack is essential for infant and toddler parents who like to hike and backpack. They’re more stable, safer, more comfortable, and less sweaty than any front carrier, and if built on a good suspension open up the option of load hauling for multiday endeavors. About a year ago we bought an…
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Zion
Unlike so many places, it is well named, especially for the 21st century bourgeois dilletante “adventurer”. Namely, us. We did well last year to so thoroughly associate the backpack with fun. LB loves hiking, occasionally requests to get back in the pack, and for him the more exposure and wind, the better. Which made Angel’s…
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Chaco
We saw it many times, from miles and miles away, but I always dismissed it. Canyon country has plenty of odd lumps in the rimrock, and the trail was just sandy enough to be slow, the day just sunny enough to be fatiguing, and the cliff face along which we walked for a while was…
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Little Bear, brand ambassador
I’m very excited to announce that, in partnership with the evil genius’ over at Backbone Media in Carbondale, Little Bear will shortly become the very first in Yeti’s new line of toddler product ambassadors. As the following video, shot on location this past weekend while we were waiting for the slow hiking Talweg Creative team…
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That lesson learned again
Car camping still isn’t, but there we were in the old orchards when the turkey attack happened. I still don’t like paying for camping, but that’s a big change from a decade ago, when I almost always went to absurd lengths to avoid it. But that other Fruita, along the Fremont, has the most gorgeous…
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2016; 10 photos
The first thing I can remember about 2016 was not sleeping, at least not for more than 90 minutes at a stretch, in early January during Little Bear’s rather spectacular six month sleep regression, which coincidentally or not happened on a trip to Iowa. That has been the first story of the year, the extent…
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Going Up
At some point in life we are told, or find out through mysterious processes, that hiking in hard and thus flatter and plainer trails where walking doesn’t require thought become preferred. This transition must come around the time our brains become complex enough, and our well of memories deep enough, to make daydreaming an option…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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