Bedrock & Paradox

Our article on Le Parcour is up on Backpackinglight. Unfortunately you need a membership to read it, so I can’t even see it!

The Garden City has what may be the whitest 11/2 parade going, but it works out just fine. Human traffic informally closes Higgins (N-S main street through downtown), and everyone from the middle school to political groups, to Bernice’s Bakery to the public librarians gets in on the act.Two words? Available. Light. Two more? Hand.…

In short, it’s up there, but not all that much yet. I took snowshoes, and that was a good choice. Until right at 8k there was almost no snow, less than on my camping trip almost four weeks ago. I saw funny tracks on the way up, and around 7.5k passed a couple hiking in…

Head on over to the Bitterroot National Forest site and submit a commit on their new travel plan(s) before the deadline on Guy Fawkes day. The Montana Mountain Bike Alliance has a pretty piss poor action summary on their site. Good ideas, but presented in a clear as mud fashion. In short, I would recommend…

http://www.youtube.com/v/6h5_PqDVNw0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00 http://www.youtube.com/v/bb17AX-urRw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00 Evening addition: Stunning music written for men without balls. Perfect background for distributing peanut butter cups to children.

Picture and antics courtesy of Bill, and Bill’s iPhone. So after a totally bitchin’ night ride in the quickly falling snow the crew headed for the Old Post in search of beers and burritos. Bill tweeted the same en route. When we arrived, Josh (at left with the fancy glass, hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps)…

Before it is too late. Patagonia’s having a crazy (60%+ off) sale on base layers, most importantly on their very nice and normally very pricey Wool 2. I’ve had Wool 2 t-shirt since spring. A bit on the fragile side (don’t go climbing off widths in it), but super soft, amazingly warm for it’s heft,…

Ripin’ fall singletrack on the singlespeed (yesterday). It had been too long. No explanation needed. Banaaaaaannnnnaaaaaaaaaa. Both M and I hate doing dishes, and more often than not, it shows.

Yanow, that never happens… I’ve been thinking about the year in review video for quite some time now, and after finishing all important projects for the day last night (school), I manufactured an excuse to make it early. A 10 month (and change) review of the magic blue camera. A lot of that magic, now…