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Año Nuevo

Posted by Ken Campbell January 1, 2009 0 Comment 832 views

A New Year. Tabula rasa. A clean slate, with days and weeks not yet spoken for. 2009 is there for the taking and I can’t help but wonder where it will take me. I have some plans already, other ideas too disorganized to be plans, at least not yet. I have always taken the idea […]

First ski day

Posted by Ken Campbell December 30, 2008 0 Comment 815 views

We took the boy skiing yesterday for the first time. We weren’t out that long but, then again, he’s not quite two years old. We went to the ski area at Snoqualmie Pass and the snow was falling hard the entire time we were there. We stayed on the bunny hill, sliding down slowly and […]

Beyond the ranges

Posted by Ken Campbell December 29, 2008 0 Comment 1128 views

The first time that I ever heard about James Hooper and Rob Gauntlett was yesterday. I doubt it’s going to be the last. This pair of British lads climbed Everest when they were each 19 years old, then began what was to be an epic global traverse, from the northern to the southern geomagnetic poles, […]

Mount Anderson

Posted by Ken Campbell December 28, 2008 0 Comment 793 views

Mt. Anderson is named after General T. M. Anderson who oversaw the beginning of the U.S. occupation of the Philippines in 1898. It is 7321 feet high and was first climbed in 1920.

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Ken Campbell December 25, 2008 0 Comment 681 views

I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that it’s Christmas, but I’ve gotten more emails than normal in the past few days from some of the folks out there who read this blog on a regular basis. It has been interesting to read what they’ve written and to get involved […]

You can’t get there from here

Posted by Ken Campbell December 24, 2008 0 Comment 799 views

I wonder if they’ve got the road open yet. Late Monday evening, around 9:00, a slide of rocks and mud blocked Highway 112 about 5 miles east of Neah Bay. State DOT spokeswoman, Kelly Stowe, said in a news conference yesterday that they expected the road to be opened again at 6 p.m. last night. […]

Solstice

Posted by Ken Campbell December 22, 2008 0 Comment 777 views

I can’t remember where I heard it, but someone once told me that December 21st is the best day to get married. “Shortest day and the longest night.” It turned out to be a good day for kayaking too, although the drive to the put-in was an adventure in itself. There’s a foot or so […]

Freedom

Posted by Ken Campbell December 19, 2008 0 Comment 778 views

Fishers are members of the weasel family, like otter, mink and martens. They are native to Washington, and the Olympic peninsula was once their home, but their population was sharply reduced by a combination of over-trapping and habitat destruction. Reduced to zero, actually. They are back now though. There’s a State program currently underway to […]

Eagles and salmon and me

Posted by Ken Campbell December 18, 2008 0 Comment 851 views

The snow is still falling, off and on. Off, right now. The other morning I had the opportunity to take a short walk by a river. Last Sunday, before I went kayaking, I followed the Skokomish River Road up and away from the highway and back into the foothills. Snow blanketed the rocks and the […]

Moclips and the Falcon

Posted by Ken Campbell December 17, 2008 0 Comment 1071 views

The Falcon and the Snowman was an ’80’s movie about a pair of semi-pro spies and poor decisions, a true story about two young men from wealthy California families who sold classified government information to the Soviet Union during the mid 1970’s. It’s a fascinating story of greed and misguided passions, and the film is […]