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Climbing Mount Ellinor

Posted by Ken Campbell July 15, 2008 0 Comment 814 views

We started up the Mount Ellinor trail just before 1:00 pm. At first, I had planned on beginning the ascent at the lower trailhead, which would have meant more miles, more elevation gain and loss, and more time. Since this had turned into a family outing, however, Mary and I thought it would be best […]

Fill ‘er up!

Posted by Ken Campbell July 12, 2008 0 Comment 694 views

I’m getting ready for a short trip to the southeast quarter tomorrow. It’s a family trip, to climb Mount Ellinor. The boy is 18 months old already – time to climb! I’ve been thinking about gas prices. The way they have risen so dramatically, they are more of a factor now in decisions about little […]

Pulling the trigger

Posted by Ken Campbell July 11, 2008 0 Comment 648 views

The goats in Olympic National Park are not native. They were introduced during the 1920’s… 12 of them. That number grew until the impact they were having on the natural flora was undeniable. Eradication and removal has always been talked about, periodically attempted and has met with various levels of success. I am not sure […]

Cleaning up after the animals

Posted by Ken Campbell July 10, 2008 0 Comment 731 views

Spray paint was invented in 1949 by Edward Seymour. There had been a variety of different developments in the quest for a spray-on paint before that time, but Seymour’s invention became the model for the product we all know today. As far back as the 1920’s, Krylon researchers had come up with products like the […]

Wonder

Posted by Ken Campbell July 6, 2008 0 Comment 930 views

In 1984, Congress designated a 2,349-acre area just to the southeast of Olympic National Forest as the Wonder Mountain Wilderness. Shaped like a triangle, the area is dominated by Wonder Mountain, the high point on the southern ridge, at 4,848 feet. There are four little lakes located within the wilderness boundary. None of them are […]

Sightings

Posted by Ken Campbell July 3, 2008 0 Comment 1057 views

It is possible that there is a place more haunted than Port Townsend, but if there is, I haven’t heard of it. When you consider that it’s not really all that old – the town was founded in 1860 – the sheer number of disembodied souls seems out of scale with the size of the […]

Dateline – Tacoma

Posted by Ken Campbell July 1, 2008 0 Comment 729 views

Five Makah whalers who went a’whaling without sanction from their tribe, without a federal permit, and without regard for the consequences their actions would have, were sentenced today in federal court in Tacoma. See, back in September of 2007, the Fab Five (Wayne Johnson, Andy Noel, Frankie Gonzales, Theron Parker and William Secor), took it […]

Mount Ellinor

Posted by Ken Campbell July 1, 2008 0 Comment 829 views

At 5,944 feet, Mount Ellinor is the most southerly high peak in the ridge of mountains overlooking Lake Cushman. First ascent honors went to a foursome from the Lake Cushman area in 1879: D. Utler, H Esteps and Mr. and Mrs. J. Waughop. The mountain was named by Lt. George Davidson of the 1857 United […]

Summer haze

Posted by Ken Campbell June 29, 2008 0 Comment 705 views

The thermometer is supposed to peak in the mid-90’s today down here in the low country. That’s about what it was yesterday. Too hot for me. I looked west to the Olympics this morning at sunrise. (The neighbor’s dogs had been barking all night, so I called off any attempt at sleep around 4:30, and […]

Battle on the edge

Posted by Ken Campbell June 28, 2008 0 Comment 842 views

The Makah reservation occupies the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula and includes Tatoosh Island. There are stories, however, that say this was not always the case. Back then, when humans sang songs to whales as they hunted them and spirits roamed the dark green forests, the area was the home of the Nittinat tribe. […]