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Recess

Posted by Ken Campbell March 4, 2009 0 Comment 1003 views

I was listening to the radio last week and I heard an interview with Philippe Petit, the Frenchman who first hit the public consciousness with his 1974 high-wire traverse from one of the World Trade Center towers to the other. The interview was wide-ranging, with comments on Petit’s other exploits as well as his assertion […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 2

Posted by Ken Campbell March 3, 2009 0 Comment 846 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 946 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 803 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 921 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 1078 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 1051 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 1155 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 985 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 1034 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 […]