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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  • 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
  • The question

    The question

    Last week I had the pleasure to be rained on, atop a broad mountain ridge.  Having driven several hours through plains reaching 100 degrees, I found on reaching the top that summer weather had come along with the early summer heat.  Stopped in the car by snow lingering in the trees, I assembled bike and […]

    DaveC

    June.8.2021
    Backpacking, Cultural critique, Packrafting
  • 2021 Bob Open report

    2021 Bob Open report

    Moore photo. This, the 10th Bob Marshall Wilderness Open, took place under the influence of unusual weather.  This can be said most years, which is the point of going in late May rather than July, but was in 2021 more true than normal.  10 days out from the start a large storm moved through, with […]

    DaveC

    June.7.2021
    Backpacking, Packrafting, Racing
  • My 2021 Bob Open

    My 2021 Bob Open

    The thick green water of the North Fork took half a mile to give in and intermingle with the flat milky water of the main Blackfoot.  Black spruce limbs, broken ragged and hidden two dimensionally in the river floated past, the breeze pushing gently upstream.  I looked backwards and saw an intact, dead tree floating […]

    DaveC

    June.1.2021
    Backpacking, Packrafting, Racing
  • Finding bargain used gear

    Finding bargain used gear

    Outdoor gear is expensive.  Perhaps not by the standards of motorized sports, but certainly compared to jogging or birding or reading books.  Since becoming firmly established in Montana a decade ago I have been cursed by the perceived necessity of cultivating and maintaining equipage for a wide range (mountain biking, alpine and nordic skiing, snowshoing, […]

    DaveC

    May.28.2021
    Backpacking, Bikes and biking, Climbing, Packrafting, Skiing, Tech
  • My favorite

    My favorite

    In the past few years May has firmly become my favorite month of the year.  In May Montana straddles winter and summer perfectly, presenting all the essential virtues of both with few of the downsides of either.  Days are long, longer than easily used awake.  Rivers and creeks and ridgetops and bowls are all full […]

    DaveC

    May.27.2021
    Backpacking, Bikes and biking, Packrafting, Skiing
  • Unexpected turbulence

    Unexpected turbulence

    This year was one of the few mother’s days in the past decade with my mom and I in the same place, and to celebrate the occasion we went packrafting in the snow.  Our intention was the lower Dearborn, that is to say the final 20 miles down to the Missouri, which is engaging, scenic, […]

    DaveC

    May.13.2021
    Packrafting
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