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Kokatat sale
I have a variety of Kokatat items in stock, from pogies to paddling suits, PFD’s to spray tops, that are on sale from today until October 31st. 20% off any item (or group of items), only open to Last Wilderness readers, and only while supplies last. Everything is on display at the shop (2621 N. […]
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Sold out!
The premiere of Ikkatsu: The Roadless Coast is set for November 14th at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma. As of this morning, both the 7:00pm showing and the 8:45pm showing are sold out. Unbelievable. Thanks to all who purchased tickets… we are looking forward to seeing you there. Remember, if you’re coming to the earlier […]
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Just paddling
I got an email this morning, with a photo included. (Thanks Lee!) Something of a blast from the past, from a time that seems much further away than a paltry dozen years ago… more like a dozen decades. Published in the Downhomer magazine in Newfoundland, it’s a picture of me in Quidi Vidi Harbour and […]
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Choices
There were a few items we needed from the grocery store on Saturday before we headed out to the weekend house getaway in Longbranch. Yogurt, a bottle of wine, carrots for the horses, etc. It wasn’t until I got to the checkout that I realized I didn’t have a reusable bag with me… in a […]
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A Sunday morning in Madronita
We’re staying out near Longbranch, not far from the end of the Key Peninsula, at a house called Madronita. (You can stay here too… in fact, I’d recommend it.) Sipping my morning coffee, looking out across the fog-shrouded passage between Anderson and McNeil Islands, I was thumbing through the Rockwell Kent classic, “Wilderness,” when some lines […]
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Walking through another door
As the Ikkatsu Project continues to evolve, it is taking up more of my time. There is a seminar coming up at the University of Puget Sound, a developing program at a few local high schools, the film that is almost complete and a premiere to plan… and that doesn’t even begin to take next […]
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A Personal fire
There is a certain satisfaction In an evening spent by an old wood stove Reading familiar lines from worn pages while Bathing in the soft, crackling light Of a fire that was placed there by hand Using driftwood that came in on the tide Some six, ten, fourteen months ago Split, dried and stacked Then […]
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Hard news
“There’s a correct way to do things and then there’s the American way.” With those words, Derek Hutchinson began his edging clinic at the West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium back in 1998. As someone who had read his books on paddling technique and heard the story of his fabled North Sea Crossing, I held the […]
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Lockouts
This blog has never been about organized sports. Professional sports. Although I have been known to mention the Green Bay Packers at times, or the Montreal Canadiens, this has never been a place to go to see the latest on who Aaron Rodgers is throwing to these days or why Larry Robinson is the greatest […]
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Follow the spirits and chase those demons
I’m not sure if it was 1997 or 1998. Or 1999 even. But in spite of not remembering the year, I remember the specific symposium when the Tsunami Rangers came to town. The West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium was, back then, the ultimate in kayaking events anywhere and traveling to Port Townsend on the third […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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