About 6 months ago I got an email from Will – a fellow participant in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Open and one who was faster than I in 2018. Clearly a man who likes to suffer, he wondered if I wanted to do a trip British Columbia’s Caribou Mountains. The Caribou’s form the northern tip of…
Intro I regularly get lured into participating in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Open: a point A to B; plan your own route; wilderness event in…
Discussion on the “volumetric efficiency” of a tent might immediately cause some heavy eyelids, but it simply refers to how weight efficient a tent’s geometry…
I got around to making some final edits on my video trip report for the 2018 Bob Marshall Wilderness Open back in May in Montana….
Last weekend was the 7th running of Bob Marshall Wilderness Open and my 5th time in the event. I get lured back nearly every year…
[Note: This is the trip report I hastily wrote up after the 2017 Bob Open on BackpackingLight.com. I’m just now reposting it here so it’s…
Editing all the footage from our 4 months on the trail this summer has turned out to be a massive job. The video series has…
Climbing is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never had a good opportunity to get started. My preferred approach to activities is autodidactic, which…
I’ve finally begun editing the footage from the big GDT trek this summer. Below are the first two episodes, which cover the first 550km.
DAYS Start: June 1 End: November 1 Elapsed days: 154 Hiking days: 82 Days on substantial snow: 15 Zeros (town stops): 10 Zeros (injury): 6…