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Remembering Sendai

Posted by Ken Campbell March 11, 2012 0 Comment 1332 views

It was a year ago today that the powerful Tohoku earthquake and the devastating tsunami hit Japan. The quake was the most powerful to ever hit the Japanese archipelago and the combination of disasters claimed as many as 20,000 lives. Entire towns were leveled, homes and businesses destroyed and lives were changed in an instant. […]

An Essex Link

Posted by Ken Campbell March 11, 2012 0 Comment 1142 views

Thanks, Steve. And everybody else… come shopping. Seriously.

Goodman Creek

Posted by Ken Campbell March 9, 2012 2 Comments 4353 views

There is a small river by the name of Goodman Creek that runs into the Pacific just south of Toleak Point. This section of the Olympic coast – south of La Push, north of the Hoh – is one of the least visited places in Washington. Yes, there are backpackers who travel along the route, […]

Kayaking fit

Posted by Ken Campbell March 8, 2012 1 Comment 1091 views

With winter winding down (if you can believe that), I’m looking ahead to the projects I’ve got coming up this year and questioning my fitness level. Maybe “questioning” isn’t the right word; maybe “fitness” isn’t the right word either. I have been on climbs where the uberfit in the group were the first to poop […]

Woodcutting

Posted by Ken Campbell March 7, 2012 0 Comment 1138 views

It’s a cold one out there this morning, for western Washington, anyway. The snow-covered Olympics are gleaming in the early sunlight, sparkling with a new layer of white. There’s a breeze, though not too strong, and the current is flowing north past my window. The fire is raging in the stove and the kettle is […]

Ikkatsu 2012

Posted by Ken Campbell March 6, 2012 2 Comments 1203 views

As the debris from the deadly Japanese tsunami of a year ago begins to wash ashore here on the other side of the Pacific, there are numerous studies that are getting underway. I am delighted to announce the one in which I am involved, the Ikkatsu 2012 Expedition, a sea kayak survey of some of […]

Hard to say

Posted by Ken Campbell March 4, 2012 0 Comment 1143 views

There are some questions you just can’t answer. And, if you have children, you’ve probably heard many of them. We were on a family hike yesterday in Ecola State Park, winding down a muddy track through the giant spruce and the omnipresent ferns, where the mist hung heavy in the air and the whole place […]

Off-line (mostly)

Posted by Ken Campbell March 3, 2012 0 Comment 1092 views

It turns out they do have wi-fi here. “Here” being the place we’re staying in Cannon Beach. Still, with the point of this weekend being some down time, I have the phone turned off and the computer doesn’t get used much (other than as a music source.) I wouldn’t have thought it would be all […]

In like a platypus, out like a wildebeest

Posted by Ken Campbell March 1, 2012 0 Comment 1049 views

How is it possible that it is March already? How can the days be so long and the months so short? And now it’s March. Possibly my least favorite month of the year, even when you factor in St. Paddy’s Day. (Apologies to anyone with a birthday this month.) It’s cold, wet, windy and almost […]