One of my best friends I’ve never ac­tu­ally met. Ben Fer­encz, the Fall Three’s own Lanterne Rouge. The cy­clo-cross­ing mad hat­ter be­hind FairEnds. Never mind that it’s well into De­cem­ber, Ben In­di­ana Jones slides in at the last minute with a sea­son­ally ad­justed ‘Fall‘ Three to make any­one wish they lived the farm life in Big Sky Coun­try. I’m happy to have this guy on board again this year, no mat­ter what sea­son it presently is. Ben’s (air quotes) Fall Three.


1. Snow! Last sea­son the folks at Black Crows were nice enough to set me up with a pair of skis af­ter i broke mine al­most this same time last year. These boards that i speak of, have by no means, seen enough pow­der! Al­though they have seen enough pow­der for me to de­ter­mine they are so much fun. Look­ing for­ward to trips to Wyoming and Canada. And now that my daugh­ter Eve­lyn is ski­ing, it’s a new game. One that’s all about french fries and pizza pies (turns and food.)

(*ed. note: not to scale.)
2.​Shetland Sweaters and Rag wool socks. As long as i can re­mem­ber I’ve al­ways had them both. Mostly from LL Bean and oc­ca­sion­ally from Brooks Broth­ers. I love them. Soft enough to be com­fort­able yet strong enough to stand the test of time and work. And i love the way every­thing sticks to them from horse hair to hay.


3. My new axe. For a while now, I’ve been us­ing what­ever axe has been ly­ing around to split wood. The last one was a jer­sey axe and i was abus­ing it. i fi­nally broke it and couldn’t re­place the han­dle for some dumb rea­son. I found one that i’m pretty ex­cited about. Gräns­fors Bruks split­ting maul. and now i’ve joined the Axe Throw­ing So­ci­ety. Still wait­ing for my mem­ber­ship card.

4. Be­cause I did 4 last year. I have a new com­pany called FairEnds that i’ve started with my pal Mar­tin Car­va­jal for­merly of Free­mans Sport­ing Club. I’m re­ally look­ing for­ward to build­ing it out. We’ve done some caps for Hick­o­rees and Jack Spade and have a few more spe­cial ones com­ing. First re­lease is caps, then back­packs, tote­bags, pouch­sets and totepacks early next year.