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Sierra, I enjoy your posts and admire how often you and your pup get out. But on this post I gotta take exception. Overall I think the Club's backcountry facilities do more good than harm. First they concentrate and manage usage and camping. Second they provide emergency services to the...

What's wrong with telling them they need to leave? It ain't a day spa for criss sakes!! Get OUT!!! A group I was with in Baxter had a very similar experience to what the Croo did here. On a minus 10 winter night we get a knock on the Roaring Brook cabin door. A panicked guy appears and in...

I too have had my ups and downs with the Club over 50+ years of hiking. But... If you use the many trails they maintain, water up or take a dump at their facilities, or benefit from their conservation, land acquisition and lobbying activities, I suggest it is a bit hypocritical to bash them.

Par for the course here, unfortunately. Haters gotta hate. Did Croo feed these folks? Shelter these folks? Pull their dam asses off the mountain? Probably. But for some haters that's just not enough. Some of us hold grudges waaaay to long in life.

Is the Bear Tooth Highway to Red Lodge open?

I read “The Maine Woods“ by Thoreau in which he documents several canoe trips deep into the Maine backcountry, which of course involved lots of camping. He and his guides has a simple prescription for keeping the bugs away: build as smoky fire as possible, wrap yourself head to toe in a heavy...

Great video of Damnation for sure. These kids are good! Q: How did the second skier do the rap without leaving gear?

See the movie “Nomadland.”

I think it's cool it fell in our life time and we got to witness the aftermath. All that talus below Cannon cliff has been raining down for thousands of years.

So this is what I don't get: If his problem is very common place and costly to SAR, why is it allowed to persist? Obviously the signage at the summit junction is NOT doing the job of directing the great unwashed down to the hut and thence home. So fix it already!! Better call Saul, or the...

Maybe it's not an issue with a small day pack, but does the frame concentrate the load into pressure points where it rests against back?

Is Hurricane Mountain Road open to N Chatham? (You have two days to respond to this question after which I’ll ask another.)

What poppycock! Mr Pizza is off my list of places to dine for sure.

Welcome. Some big lines to ski in the basins at Baxter but a lot of work to get to them !

Sounds very similar to my old North Face Expedition tent featuring the “inverse catenary cut” design. Twin A frames, Snow flaps, tunnel and zip doors, air vent and removable cotton frost liner. And about 20 stake out and guy line anchors. I think modern free standing, stressed frame tents are...

One of my big experiments was with a Serria Designs “cagoule.” This exotic piece of foul weather gear was all the rage in Wales and Scotland before it made its way to the states. Idea was you could crouch down in the knee-length hooded garment and survive anything the mountains could throw at...

For my recent -12 sleep out I dug my Alpine Designs expedition parka (circa 1971) out of storage. What a great and massive down garment! And still extremely lofty and warm. I used to bivvy in it with a pair of REI down pants that zipped into an elephant’s foot. Good times!

I think he had some of his kids posing nude in the catalogs. Strange then and probably illegal now.

On my first hike with Over 50 I told them there was no Over 70 meet up group so I had to go with the Over 50. They laughed and said you're in good company with us.

Glad you’re alive n hik’n. Hope we will “Meet Up“ at some point. That Over 50 is a good group. Best, Chrisb