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Things I made this year: Olivewood side table
Being a therapist I need a couch, and that couch needs a place for the lamp and folks’ coffee. The olive was a treat to myself earlier this year, as the 5ish foot length (of the most figured and funky stuff they had) cost a cool 70 bucks, which before I got into the intricacies…
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Stuff I made last year: Mad River Revelation rescue
Two years ago it was becoming obvious that floating was going to be a major part of our family life for a number of years, if not forever. Backpacking and hiking with smaller kids is great and very doable and also profoundly limiting, with a necessarily slow pace changing the planning landscape from time BK…
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Smith River alone
The Smith is, for the time being, the only river in Montana which requires a permit. This has been the case since 1989, and the 59 mile “scenic” and mostly roadless stretch is now a state park, with a lottery for the probable floating season of April through early July, and fairly long odds (less…
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Lincoln-Missoula downriver regatta
The idea: paddle the Blackfoot (and Clark Fork) from Lincoln, Montana to Missoula in less than 24 hours. Like with the Bob Open 12 years ago, I’m quite sure this will work, but need to figure out the details by doing it. So that will happen this year. Lincoln (at the Stemple Pass road bridge)…
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Stuff I made last year: reclaimed wood pedestal desk
I moved to a new job last year, which provided a number of reasons to not write here. It also provided a reason to need a new desk, one being the small corner of my new office into which a desk best fit. Being a psychotherapist now, typing or anything-ing at a desk only occupies…
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Tenderfoot Creek packrafting
(update June 2022) Tenderfoot Creek is the largest west-running drainage in the Little Belt mountains. Like the mountains themselves, it is a unique and somewhat obscure place. It has a public lands story which is worth reading about. As detailed last week, I’ve been mulling this post for a while. I discovered (for myself) floating…
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The new old road
You will have read about the flooding in Yellowstone, an almost logical capstone to an odd spring in Montana. An average snowpack, which lingered anywhere high after a cool and wet April and May, slowly saturated that ground and allowed for rains in both the greater Yellowstone and Crown of the Continent areas last week…
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Patagonia STP Hoody; final thoughts
I’ve been using the Stretch Terre Planing hoody almost daily, and almost exclusively, for 18 months. It has proved to be as ideal a windshirt as I can imagine, without falling into hyperbolic hopes concerning future fabrics. As I detailed in the post last year, my windshirt quest has over the past decade consisted in…
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2022 Bob Open un/official report
The 2022 Open started at Blackleaf Canyon on the Rocky Mountain Front, and ran either to the Rattlesnake trailhead outside Missoula, or looped back to finish at the start, with a mandatory checkpoint at the confluence of Youngs and Danaher Creeks. 9 folks took the start, with several planning for alternate routes. 2022 had started…
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