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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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Isle Royale family loop
I’m proud of this one. Back in December when we made boat reservations and committed, I could as is usual with a big trip imagine some difficulties, not others. But those unknowns built and compounded and by the time we arrived in Copper Harbor at 11pm the night before, put the kids to bed in…
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The DY Special: on the water
It is an easy cliche that gear matters less than will when it comes to executing a given outdoor activity, one whose heart is in the right, but ignores many practical details. We now have eight boats on the premises, but neither the four packrafts nor the whitewater canoe nor the freightor canoe nor the…
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Fashion and the delams
Challenge’s Ultraweave fabrics have seen impressively broad acceptance this winter, with companies as diverse as Pa’lante and Stone Glacier using it, and companies like MLD and Seek Outside moving to make it a core part of their pack line ups. As I found out this past summer, the specs are impressive, and the marketing equally…
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The DY Special, prelude
In early September last year I was cruising Craigslist for random boats, as one does, and saw something scary. I kept coming back over the next week, and eventually told myself that were the thing still for sale when I came back from a hunting trip, I would call about it. There was little doubt…
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