Ken Campbell, Author at The Last Wilderness

Secrets

Posted by Ken Campbell April 17, 2012 4 Comments 1234 views

When I was telling some of my friends at Surfrider about this summer’s expedition, they all wanted to make sure that we wouldn’t be giving away any secrets about which beaches along the Olympic coast were the best for waves. I assured them that we would give out information only on a need-to-know basis and […]

Saturday the 14th

Posted by Ken Campbell April 14, 2012 0 Comment 1188 views

After surviving another Friday-the-13th, I’m heading off to Anderson Island for an overnight with the Ikkatsu crew. In addition to the main group objectives – mostly having to do with camera and sound questions related to the filming process – each of us has our own little projects for this short trip. I know Steve […]

Survey gear

Posted by Ken Campbell April 13, 2012 0 Comment 1220 views

The type of beach survey we’ll be doing on this summer’s Ikkatsu Expedition will follow the protocol laid out in the NOAA Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide. The particular method we’ll be using is called a Standing-stock Survey, a method based on counting the flotsam without actually removing it. There’s an element of random […]

Morning medicine

Posted by Ken Campbell April 12, 2012 0 Comment 1150 views

If you feel under the weather, If you feel a little bit peeved, Take Granny’s stand-by potion, For any old cough or wheeze. It’s a cure for hepatitis, it’s a cure for chronic insomnia, It’s a cure for tonsillitis and for water on the knee. Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at […]

Practice

Posted by Ken Campbell April 11, 2012 1 Comment 1210 views

Coming up this weekend is another overnight trip, a short paddle but a long camp (if that makes any sense.) In preparing for the Ikkatsu Expedition, we are trying a bunch of different camera techniques, experimenting with new gear and trying to work out some of the other things that will go into the survey […]

Firewood round-up

Posted by Ken Campbell April 10, 2012 0 Comment 1141 views

With the days getting longer, and light getting here earlier and sticking around a little later, I’m hoping to enjoy a few more morning paddles that don’t require as much night vision. This morning was idyllic: flat calm water, slack current and no wind. I took the Bark 14 out for a spin, went south […]

Schoolwork

Posted by Ken Campbell April 9, 2012 0 Comment 1180 views

One of the classes I’m teaching this semester is a small group project that is going to produce a guide book to the trails of Point Defiance Park. (I keep saying that because, as the end of the semester approaches, it seems less likely that it will happen.) No, I don’t mean that. It will […]

Because we shoot things

Posted by Ken Campbell April 8, 2012 1 Comment 1125 views

The Japanese fishing vessel that was spotted off of Haida Gwaii is now 6000 feet deeper down, on the bottom of the sea. A US Coast Guard ship unloaded its ordnance on the drifting hulk; she never stood a chance. You can, if you have not already heard of the sinking, read the summary here. […]

Many things

Posted by Ken Campbell April 7, 2012 0 Comment 1140 views

The full moon is a glowing platter in the early morning sky. The water in the Narrows is bathed in light, in the way that only a full moon can do. Somehow, in some arcane and pagan calculation, this particular full moon means that tomorrow is Easter Sunday. (Am I the only one that finds […]

Attitude overload

Posted by Ken Campbell April 5, 2012 2 Comments 1126 views

If you’re the type of person to put a lame sticker like this on your 1978 Datsun Honeybee, I’m guessing that, whatever your nickname may be, it definitely has the word “bag” in it. Or “nozzle.”