Posts filed under "Talking Story"
The Nook Backcountry Tent by MSR
I am always looking for a new tent. I had one that I really liked but it’s been in need of some repair for a while now and I’ve been using others that I had out in storage, remembering the specific reasons that I no longer favor them. None of them are terrible, exactly; it’s […]
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New Year’s Day, 2014
I don’t know what happened to the past 12 months… it hardly seems possible that they would be already gone. But here we are again, ready to do it all over one more time. One more turn of the calendar, one more trip around the sun. Exactly the same, yet completely different. It’s been almost […]
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Secrets of Augustine
Last year’s Roadless Coast expedition took the Ikkatsu Project team along Washington’s Olympic coastline where we surveyed remote beaches for marine debris. We had barely finished that trip when we decided to do another, this time to south-central Alaska, to see what might have washed up on some of the least-visited and wildest shorelines in Cook Inlet.
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Roll On, Columbia
It is doubtful that when Woody Guthrie wrote his quintessential salute to moving water, he had any idea of the effect that the years would have on his beloved Columbia river. Rapids have been submerged, huge hydroelectric dams have formed lakes in the desert, and the legendary salmon runs of yesteryear seem more myth than fact.
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A Winter Tale
“It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat’s plans and a man’s are worth about the same.” Mark Twain As I lay in my sleeping bag somewhere on the shores of Johnstone Strait, […]
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Breathing space
It’s the spring of the year here in western Washington. I doesn’t seem like that long ago that it was snowing on the passes and raining bullets here along the shores of the Salish Sea… I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of the foul weather yet, but the future is looking a bit more […]
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What odds?
Tomorrow will be the 2nd anniversary of the tsunami that devastated northern Japan. Two years gone since then… it hardly seems possible. A couple weeks ago, this blog had its five-year anniversary. What started out as a writer’s exercise book turned into a full-blown daily newsletter, about a variety of items related to nature and […]
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Other pursuits
I have been pretty one-dimensional lately… the Ikkatsu Project has dominated most of my efforts and I haven’t been quite the outdoor renaissance man that I would normally expect myself to be. That’s just the way it is, I suppose. The work I’m doing with marine debris is important to me (and just downright important), […]
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The ways of change
I’m not sure I’m a kayaker any more. I don’t know when it happened, but I can’t help but think that something has changed. Don’t get me wrong… I still paddle. I still take my boat out into the spray and I still love the feel of a hurricane headwind or a quiet, backwater morning. […]
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Catching up
The Tacoma showing of The Roadless Coast went off well the other night at the Grand Cinema… sold out to the doors with a lot of very cool people. With that showing done and the next one still over a week away, I’ve got a little time to decompress and get some other things done. […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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