Ken Campbell, Author at The Last Wilderness

Brrrrrrr

Posted by Ken Campbell December 10, 2009 1 Comment 1103 views

This cold snap we’re feeling here in western Washington has me wondering if I’m starting to show my age. Which is almost the same thing as feeling my age, except worse. (There is a reason that, as we get on in years, we feel the pull of Miami or Phoenix, San Diego or Key West. […]

Fish wrap and field reports

Posted by Ken Campbell December 8, 2009 0 Comment 909 views

Here’s the media perspective from the Reach, somewhat skewed but mostly accurate. It’s always interesting to get a glimpse of the way that others see you. Meanwhile, the Field Report (with photos), is up on the Azimuth Expeditions web site. Enjoy the read.

Back

Posted by Ken Campbell December 6, 2009 1 Comment 1610 views

Okay… let’s get the weather myths dealt with right from the start: it’s no colder in the Tri-cities than it is over on this side of the Cascades, at least not this week. Which is chilling me at the moment, to the bone, but really, I was grateful for the weather the last few days […]

Gone to the east side

Posted by Ken Campbell December 3, 2009 0 Comment 1073 views

I have a few days off here, and I’m planning on spending them some place different and new. To me, at least. I have had it on my list – oh, that list. That constantly-growing, insatiable list – for years now. I can only imagine what the Columbia River looked like back in the day, […]

December morning

Posted by Ken Campbell December 1, 2009 0 Comment 1158 views

It is a day of reckoning, this December the 1st. Perhaps reckoning is too harsh a term, but it is certainly a day to drop back and take stock, at least in terms of what the rest of the year will bring. If you are planning on doing some particular thing or traveling to some […]

Precipitation

Posted by Ken Campbell November 28, 2009 0 Comment 1037 views

According to the latest web weather forecast, there are a few more fronts on their way. Heavy rain in the lowlands and snow up high. Lots of snow. The Sappho area, not far from Forks, has been hit with more than a foot of rain in the past week. The incoming system is going to […]

Seasonal down

Posted by Ken Campbell November 23, 2009 0 Comment 996 views

I know that, in less than a month, the days will start to get longer again. In my head, I know this, and that should be good enough. I was thinking today, however, in a moment of weakness, that I might like to emigrate to Costa Rica. I’ve never been there… seems like a hell […]

Another day

Posted by Ken Campbell November 21, 2009 0 Comment 1271 views

All this rain is hitting the Skokomish hard. Again. Like it always does. First comes the flooding, the river rising, cresting, then rising again. Up, over flood stage, to the point that the roads look like new rivers, flowing thorough houses and fields, covering the green with a dirty brown. Then come the slides. Super-saturated […]

Recon

Posted by Ken Campbell November 19, 2009 0 Comment 1050 views

The route I’ll be taking next summer when I paddle around the Olympic Peninsula is one with which I am fairly familiar. For the most part. I’ve been to almost every nook and cranny in Puget Sound, I’ve kayaked the length of the Straits, and I’ve done at least a dozen trips to the Roadless […]

Ch, ch, changes

Posted by Ken Campbell November 17, 2009 1 Comment 1092 views

The wind threw my plans away, in much the same manner as it tossed about the trees in Bowman Bay. Small boughs and entire limbs littered the blacktop on the way down to the beach and though the waters inside the bay were relatively benign, the breakers just past the headland and near Deception Island […]