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Partners in crime

Posted by Ken Campbell December 11, 2012 0 Comment 1752 views

I have spent great chunks of time in the wilderness alone. I don’t just like solo trips, I love them. That said, I have been blessed to have some of the finest of friends accompany me on some of the forays into wild woods and wooly water and, over the years, my admiration for them […]

Love

Posted by Ken Campbell December 10, 2012 0 Comment 1423 views

Monday. Back to school. I wish there would have been a SAMi when I was in high school… (That’s a thought that I have regularly these days.) I love the hiking in the woods, the trails of Point Defiance. I love how “out there” it seems, even though it really isn’t. I love how, for […]

California dreamin’

Posted by Ken Campbell December 9, 2012 0 Comment 1298 views

Arcata was great! The weather was perfect – a little cold at night but nothing we couldn’t handle – and the days were sunny, warm and bluebird skies. It actually was a little too perfect, the way that the weather changed as soon as we crossed over from Oregon into Cali… clouds slid away and […]

Arcata

Posted by Ken Campbell December 5, 2012 0 Comment 1238 views

Steve and I leave this morning for the California film debut of Ikkatsu; The Roadless Coast. Pretty exciting stuff. I’d probably be more excited if I didn’t have this cold, but still… we’re pretty pumped. So, back to the land of Redwoods and cold surf… I like that part of California.

A Matter of scale

Posted by Ken Campbell December 4, 2012 0 Comment 1461 views

I get the National Geographic magazine, mostly because it is the most motivational, inspiring, intelligent and amazing magazine on the planet. I actually read the articles now, not just look at the pictures – which is not that bad a way to read it either. It helps me see beyond my limited horizons, helps me […]

On monkey wrenching

Posted by Ken Campbell December 2, 2012 1 Comment 2284 views

I just finished reading The Monkey Wrench Gang for the 50th time. (OK, maybe not the 50th time, but it has to be somewhere up there.) I get something different out of that old diatribe every time I pick it up. Edward Abbey was a unique writer and when I listen to the way he […]

Hello Seattle!

Posted by Ken Campbell December 1, 2012 0 Comment 1300 views

The film, Ikkatsu; The Roadless Coast, will be making its Emerald City debut on February 19, 2013 at the Mountaineers Program Center. Tickets are only $8.00 and supply is limited. You can get yours now at Brown Paper Tickets. All proceeds go to the Ikkatsu Project and will help fund future expeditions, outreach and cleanup […]

Mountain time again

Posted by Ken Campbell November 29, 2012 0 Comment 1214 views

There’s a rain on again today… the trails in Point Defiance are bound to be muddy. Not that I mind, especially. Just an observation. I guess the up side to that is that, at the higher elevations, the snow is falling. I’ve got a considerable backlog of stories to do for visitrainier.com – snowshoeing and […]

Insidious

Posted by Ken Campbell November 28, 2012 0 Comment 1289 views

You know how, when you have a cold and you blow your nose again and again, after a while the bottom of the nose gets cherry red and rashy? You know how it feels raw and hot after a hundred blows? And how, eventually, if you keep it up, you get to the point where […]

Flight of the orca

Posted by Ken Campbell November 27, 2012 2 Comments 1421 views

I’m not sure how I missed it. I try to stay informed but somehow the story about the potential delisting of the whales caught me by surprise. In retrospect, there’s nothing surprising about it… it’s just sad. It seems that a conservative legal foundation has won a review of the idea that the Puget Sound […]