Ken Campbell, Author at The Last Wilderness

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 2

Posted by Ken Campbell March 3, 2009 0 Comment 821 views

I suppose the conditions could have been worse, but they were plenty bad as it was. After the long, hot ride of day one, where I glided on glassy water smooth as oiled velvet, this second day on the water was quite the contrast. Then again, just getting on the water was an epic in […]

Revising distance

Posted by Ken Campbell March 2, 2009 0 Comment 922 views

About a hundred years ago, or so it seems to me now, I went on a little kayak trip around Bainbridge Island. My paddling partner was Jason Boone, a good friend of mine who had just finished building his own kayak, and wanted to take it someplace interesting for its maiden voyage. I suggested Bainbridge […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 1

Posted by Ken Campbell March 1, 2009 0 Comment 781 views

I couldn’t have wished for better weather, especially here at the end of February. The sky was pure blue, shot through with puffy clouds out of the south. The air was warm and the water was calm. I had driven out to Menard’s Landing, out past Tahuya, and left the van in a parking area […]

More details later

Posted by Ken Campbell March 1, 2009 0 Comment 903 views

Stand Up for Watertrails Part I Belfair – Dawatto Bay Feb 27 Belfair State Park – Menard’s Landing 12 NMFeb 28 Menard’s Landing – Dewatto Bay 6 NM Came up a little short today. Brutal shuttles both days, but today especially. Yesterday was like a dream… perfect calm water, blue sky. I jumped in twice […]

Best of times

Posted by Ken Campbell February 26, 2009 0 Comment 1058 views

It’s been a year since I first started writing in this particular forum, since I decided to get serious about the Olympic Peninsula. Or maybe “serious” isn’t the right word. It’s been a year of early mornings, a year of coffee served with a view of the mountains, or the water. Windy days in a […]

Orange Crush

Posted by Ken Campbell February 24, 2009 0 Comment 1031 views

It is not a glamorous thing, this shuttle bike of mine. It is a Schwinn Varsity (the model that many of us, of a certain age, owned growing up). It is orange and heavy, with a little rust in some places and scattered irregularities in its steel rims. It is no longer a ten-speed, although […]

A New page

Posted by Ken Campbell February 22, 2009 0 Comment 1135 views

Updates on the Puget Sound Challenge SUP odyssey can be found on the Last Wilderness website (as opposed to this here blog) and will be posted as often as I feel like it. If you haven’t checked it out lately, take a look when you get the chance. As always, if you have any questions […]

Opportunity Cost

Posted by Ken Campbell February 21, 2009 0 Comment 960 views

I took an Economics class years ago, for some reason that must have been important at the time. I am not particularly good with numbers, and money has never been a passion of mine, so I don’t remember much of what I supposedly learned in the course, but there was one concept that has stuck […]

Synchronicity

Posted by Ken Campbell February 19, 2009 0 Comment 1012 views

Ever since I first stepped onto a Standup Paddleboard (SUP) last summer, I have been thinking about doing an extended trip. After all these years of kayaking – not that I’m done yet – I wanted to try something different and I knew from the first tentative paddle stroke I took on that demo board […]

Dam

Posted by Ken Campbell February 18, 2009 0 Comment 1047 views

Back in the Fall of 2007, I wrote a short Field Report for the Azimuth Expeditions web site about a family canoe outing on Lake Aldwell. At the time, a dam removal project was slated to begin in just a few months, and it was with a sense of urgency that I chose the destination. […]