Bedrock & Paradox

The Dearborn River can, for the purposes of floating, be divided into five distinct sections. All of them are worthwhile destinations, with short seasons relative to neighboring streams. Some par...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2024/05/01/dearborn-river-micro-guide/

Prior to 2008 or so I lived in Chaco sandals, like many others. They were comfy, good for most things so long as they weren’t too technical (in any direction), and exceptionally durable. When I...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2024/03/24/bedrock-clogs-the-hipster-death-shoe-i-love/

Planning post here, whose plan I followed pretty much dead on.  Day one took me from Pearce Ferry, up Pearce Canyon, out the north fork of the south arm, and to a camp on the upper Sanup (where ...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2024/03/22/west-grand-loop-debrief-and-video/

It is easy to dislike mountain biking these days.  The industry has gentrified in un-environmental and increasingly, un-human directions, with trail development (or at least, the popular portray...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2024/03/21/stooge-speedbomb-the-best-of-mountain-biking/

Back in December I drew a Grand Canyon river permit.  I’d been trying for three years, putting in for the annual lottery, as well as for the winter cancellation permits, and after around 10 to...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2024/02/29/west-grand-loop-conception-and-planning/

The 2023 Open ran from lower Holland Lake to Marias Pass, under overall kind conditions. A late spring led to a sunny May, with snow levels tapering northwards, and the foothills of Glacier hav...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2023/12/20/2023-bob-open-report/

I wasn’t exactly looking for this boat, but I was keen to have a solo/smaller version of the Revelation; a canoe that would be as versatile downriver but not be quite so unwieldy, both paddled ...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2023/12/14/cold-crack-repair-round-2/

Top is locust burl and epoxy, the sides finished with slow cure epoxy to seal the pokies, the face sanded to 1500 grit and finished with linseed oil. Legs are pieces of a spalted maple slab that ...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2023/12/06/the-monster-table/

The question I had three years ago when I bought and then changed up the San Quention was easy to answer; a new bike with modern geometry was absolutely worth it. I’ve enjoyed the bike immensel...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2023/12/05/marin-san-quentin-last-thoughts-and-replacement/

I’ve long wanted to float the South Fork of the Flathead in all 9 months I reckon it is ever floatable, read not frozen, those being March through November, with both March and November not pro...

https://bedrockandparadox.com/2023/11/28/south-fork-november-debrief/