Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

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  • Accident report: near-drowning in Meadow Creek Gorge

    Paddler A and B were on the fourth day of a packrafting trip on the South Fork of the Flathead at low water (a hair above 500 cfs at Twin Creeks).  They passed through the intro rapid right below the normal Meadow Creek takeout and arrived at the first serious rapid 1/2 mile later around…

    DaveC

    August.31.2021
    Backpacking, Packrafting
  • A daypack

    A daypack

    After being so impressed with Ultraweave I naturally wanted to make several/a number of bags out of it.  My affinity for burlier pack fabrics goes back to the very beginning, both because I know that many of my favored activities shred lighter pack fabrics, and (more relevantly) because I have an aesthetic preference for things,…

    DaveC

    August.12.2021
    Bikes and biking, MYOG, North Fork Packs, Skiing, Tech
  • The new nu

    After dropping my paddle a second time I decided I must be tired.  The Catalyst is a pretty paddle, and moves around the water just as well as the laminate wood and almost invisible fiberglass coating would make you hope.  I had bought it just the day before and hadn’t quite embedded the balance point…

    DaveC

    August.4.2021
    Canoeing
  • Alpacka Explorer 42 review

    Alpacka Explorer 42 review

    We spent a lot of time thinking about this one.  Our need for a second large packraft, to compliment our Double Duck, was obvious.  You really can’t paddle more difficult water with a kid in your lap, one previous option to getting both kids out of the front of the Duck, and we needed to…

    DaveC

    July.30.2021
    Backpacking, Fly Fishing, Packrafting, The Adventures of Bear and Cloud
  • National Parks; the future is still now

    National Parks; the future is still now

    The national parks are crowded, or rather, they have been.  The pandemic reduced and altered visitation in potentially unexpected ways which are worth pondering.  Anecdotally, visitation is back close to or has exceeded the previous records, which were generally set in the latter half of the last decade.  This seems to be the COVID outdoor…

    DaveC

    July.29.2021
    Backpacking, Cultural critique, Packrafting
  • Challenge Ultraweave abrasion testing

    Advanced (read: non-nylon) woven fabrics have spent most of the past decade promising to upend standard performance to weight ratios, especially where backpacks are concerned.  Standard and hybrid cuben laminates have been a disappointment in this respect, with inadequate durability and poor balance between performance and cost.  The hype and rhetoric associated with hybrid cuben…

    DaveC

    July.24.2021
    Backpacking, Hiking with ropes, Packrafting, Tech, Videos
  • Summer

    Summer

    A month ago I knew we were in trouble.  In the dead of winter I had plotted a lookout/packraft/hiking trip, hoping the agency optimism in opening slots so early in the summer would lead to cool isolation.  The final road was drifted in, but the scorching days I was there sublimated those into hollow, slushy…

    DaveC

    July.10.2021
    Packrafting, The Adventures of Bear and Cloud
  • Werner Shuna v. Corryvrecken

    Werner Shuna v. Corryvrecken

    This past winter I finally got a new paddle.  My almost 10 year old 210cm Shuna is still going strong, with the many chips on the blade edges and loosening of the joints not really making a substantive impact amongst the rapids, but I both wanted something new and shiny, and wanted to have two…

    DaveC

    June.23.2021
    Packrafting, Tech
  • Montana stream access law and use

    Montana stream access law and use

    The fact of increased outdoor recreation in Montana, prompted by the pandemic and ancillary effects, has yet to be fully established.  Compelling evidence has begun to accumulate, in things like real estate prices, hunting tag applications, and forest service cabin reservations.  What has already been firmly established is the appearance and assumption of increased recreation…

    DaveC

    June.22.2021
    Cultural critique, Fly Fishing, Packrafting
  • Nothin’

    Nothin’

    Sometimes imagination fails, even in the face of skepticism.  One can for instance, almost imagine the canyon above as a tasty series of drops provided the water volume was increased 10 times over.  Imagining when and how often that might actually occur, in the face of an open drainage basin of modest size, is more…

    DaveC

    June.21.2021
    Bikes and biking, Packrafting
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