Ken Campbell, Author at The Last Wilderness

Bad luck

Posted by Ken Campbell September 16, 2012 0 Comment 1277 views

Getting a loaded kayak in and out through heavy surf is one of the hardest jobs an expedition paddler has. It’s difficult to gain momentum, pushing a weighted boat through breaking waves, each one of them working against you, trying to return the boat to the sand, sometimes quite violently. Getting outside the surf zone, […]

What’s it going to take?

Posted by Ken Campbell September 14, 2012 0 Comment 1200 views

We leave this morning for Kalaloch… Destruction Island tomorrow. At least, that’s the plan. I purposely haven’t checked the marine forecast the past couple of days, mostly because it sounded like it was getting big out there and I’ve found that it always pays to go take a look with an open mind. (We’ll be […]

Loose ends

Posted by Ken Campbell September 13, 2012 0 Comment 1166 views

With the last (short) chapter in the Ikkatsu Expedition about to get underway, I’m going about 10 different directions at once: – I just found out yesterday that I’ll be doing a presentation on the Ikkatsu Project at this year’s Surfrider West Coast Summit in Ventura, CA in a couple of weeks. That’s pretty exciting […]

Get ’em while they’re hot

Posted by Ken Campbell September 11, 2012 0 Comment 1112 views

I’m going down to the Grand Cinema to do a walk-through this morning, just get a look at the theater we’ll be using to debut the Ikkatsu documentary on November 14th. It should be a very good time, and I am looking forward to it (even though there’s still a lot to be done.) I’ve […]

Turning

Posted by Ken Campbell September 10, 2012 0 Comment 1224 views

It’s a gray, slightly damp and thick-sky morning, the kind of a morning that could be any day between September and April. It’s cold, sort of, with a chilly wind out of the southwest and a chop on the water. Summer is definitely past. I just got back to town last night after spending the […]

Insomnia

Posted by Ken Campbell September 8, 2012 0 Comment 1345 views

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. – Henry Ward Beecher There’s a lot of what Beecher had to […]

It’s about the money

Posted by Ken Campbell September 7, 2012 0 Comment 1127 views

In a move that comes as something of a surprise, the Japanese government has announced that it is planning to bear some of the costs for cleanup efforts on the west coast of the US and Canada. I’ve poked around a little and heard the figure of $1,000,000 dollars being bandied about. I’m not sure […]

Gone to a land down under

Posted by Ken Campbell September 6, 2012 0 Comment 1032 views

No, I’m not going to Australia. Not that far “down under.” I’m just going to Oregon, the land down under Washington, for the weekend. I’m doing a weekend trip along the Oregon coast with a group of women who book this same weekend every year. We’re staying in Cannon Beach and I’m figuring we’ll do […]

All the news that fits

Posted by Ken Campbell September 5, 2012 1 Comment 1431 views

During the course of the Ikkatsu Expedition this summer, especially after we found remnants of a house on a remote Olympic beach, the trip and our survey activities were the subject of a spate of media attention. We did scores of interviews with print and broadcast outlets and got used to seeing our names on […]

Help!

Posted by Ken Campbell September 3, 2012 1 Comment 1110 views

It seems that Academy Award winner Russell Crowe needed a little help getting back to the dock the other night. He and a friend had gone for a paddle off Long Island and “… ran out of day,” as the actor put it. They hailed a passing Coast Guard boat and got a lift back […]