All Posts Written by "ken"
Big Creek loop
“The scouts sent out to prospect for the trail met with no very encouraging success, and the necessity of forcing our way through the dense forest and over precipitous bluffs dawned on us and placed us all in no very sanguine mood; and to add to the discouragement, an incessant downpour of rain had followed […]
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The Hoh River
The Hoh River begins 8,000 feet above sea level, on Mt. Olympus. It travels 56 miles from its source to the sea. Through alpine highlands, steep canyons and rich, braided bottom lands. Northern spotted owl, marbled murrelet, and bald eagle nest in snags along the Hoh and in the surrounding watershed. Over 140 inches of […]
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Daydreams
Wave-sculpted Bedrock Jim Quattrocchi Port Angeles, WA Everybody daydreams. I daydream about places I still want to go, trips I want to take. It’s a very big world, despite rumors to the contrary, and I grow fonder of it with each passing day. I think about the sights I have yet to see and I […]
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Getting reaquainted
Three months ago this week, I left on what was to have been the first winter sea kayak circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. I got about three weeks into the trip when a torn rotator cuff stopped me cold in Johnstone Strait. Mary and Micah made the drive up to Sayward to pick me up and […]
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Humes Ranch
“We had long since learned that there were no snakes in these mountains, nor along the streams, hence we used the last of our antidote at this point and looked upon the dead soldier with sorrow and regret.” Harry FisherO’Neil Olympic expedition, 1890 I think it’s kind of funny, the euphemisms we use for booze. […]
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Port Angeles Sea Kayak Symposium
I’m writing this from my room at the Red Lion Inn here in Port Angeles, ice clinking in my glass, as the evening falls. I love that it’s almost 8pm and the sky is still light, the glow on the water so warm. This is, without doubt, a singularly beautiful time of the season. I […]
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Muddy banks of the Wishkah
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I’ve trapped Have all become my pets And I’m living off of grass And the drippings from the ceiling It’s ok to eat fish ‘Cause they don’t have any feelings Something in the Way – Nirvana The ghost of Kurt Cobain still prowls […]
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James Island
James Island stands like a sentinel at the mouth of the Quillayute River near the Olympic coastal town of La Push. The complicated currents that surround the island make for an exciting place to take a sea kayak, when the weather is good, anyway. When winter storms beat down on the coast, however, the beaches […]
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A bad Monday
As the color was rising in the eastern sky on the morning of September 21, 1868, a group of Tsimshian Indians lay sleeping on the shore at New Dungeness Spit. There were 18 in the company, travelers on their way to Fort Simpson, British Columbia, from the Puyallup lands in south Puget Sound where they […]
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The cape, the captain, and me
In March of 1778, Captain James Cook went looking for the Northwest Passage. The northern route to Europe was the Holy Grail for mariners of the time, the search for which had consumed the careers of many a ship’s captain. Ultimately, it would turn out that the polar regions were too frozen to be of […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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