Category: The Adventures of Bear and Cloud
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Single-parent packrafting
There hasn’t been much I just outright can’t do with Little Bear: singletrack mountain biking (trailer width), rifle shooting (he pulls his earmuffs off), and powder skiing (trailer bogs down) being the noteworthy ones. Packrafting has also been on the list, at list on the days I’m a solo parent, until yesterday. The one parent,…
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Sierra Designs Tensegrity 2 Elite review
The Tensegrity 2 Elite is an exceptional tent, in many ways. Unfortunately the most significant of those ways is not easy to convey in either words or pictures, and because of this, the unusual design, and the high price I worry that an excellent tent may not be long on the market. We purchased (at…
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Osprey Poco AG review
The Osprey Poco AG is a well executed kid carrier for day hiking and perhaps backpacking. It carries the kid exceptionally securely and comfortably, but has serious limitations for women or the long torso’d. For detail shots of the pack, and my initial thoughts when we bought it, see here. All photos by M. We’ve…
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Wam’d
Wam was spectacular, what a cabin on a ridge top should be. White and forest paint cracking off in strips, eastern shades shattered atop the flat rough pebbles, warped and spotted panes showing a subtly tainted view of long valleys in all directions. Charming, for moderns like us who spend workdays indoors, even when a…
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11 months
The skiing this Satuday was almost certain to be terrible. Temperatures barely below freezing make for wet, sticky, slow snow; and poor visibility removes the other element which might compensate with appeal. I had promised myself that if Little Bear woke early Saturday we’d go skiing, regardless of all but the most horrid conditions. I…
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At the lake
While backpacking with the baby has been an unqualified if strenuous success, we’ve been avoiding it at home. For 11 months now. M has bearanoia far greater than mine, but it took me a while to square the burden of fatherhood with the abiding worry that Grizzly bears engender. He is still tiny and helpless,…
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Camas Creek bike-hike-packraft
A spring hike in Christensen Meadows, together with a float on Camas Creek, will never be a popular trip in Glacier National Park, but it’s one of my favorite outings. The meadows face south, and the creek has its origin up a big and very snowy valley. Once spring truly warms up the lower Camas…
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Honaker-Slickhorn kid hiking gear and logistics
First, the route; it’s very scenic and has great variety for a low(physical) price of entry. The floating is expedient, easy, and all rapids can be scouted and/or portaged. The hiking is not easy, and while there is almost always a use trail in Slickhorn it is rarely obvious or very useful for sustained stretches. …
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Little Bear gets real, part 2
The adults were a bit worse off come morning. The endless sun and heat yesterday had made it hard to keep hydrated, especially on the boat. Note that when I say heat, I mean above 70F. Little Bear seemed in fine shape, the only evidence of a big day last a wake up that was…
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Little Bear gets real, part 1
This trip was a big deal. A proof of concept for the near future, and the first backcountry outing with Little Bear on a route that wasn’t a compromise; our loop down the Honaker trail, down the San Juan River, and up Slickhorn Canyon all the way to the northernmost TH was one we’d have…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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