Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Shucks
There is an event held in Shelton, every October, that I believe I would like to see for myself. “Oysterfest,” it’s called, and this year’s festivities get underway on October 4th and 5th. I’ve been to the Lemon Festival in Goleta, California and eaten cod tongue in Newfoundland. It only seems logical, really. For more […]
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Rock piles
Sea stacks, like the ones along the Olympic coast, are remnants of land. The last little bits of where the land used to be, markers of where the sea had once been held back, but could be held back no longer. The water wears on the stone and forms caves. Caves connect with each other […]
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On the road
Maybe it is because I grew up along Highway 101. Admittedly, I grew up in Southern California, and Highway 101 has a different feel to it as it rolls through Santa Barbara than it does on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula. Still, it has a familiar ring to my ears, and maybe that’s […]
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Tubal Cain – an introduction
I had never heard of Tubal Cain before, at least I don’t think so. I may have had a vague remembrance of a played-out copper mine in the southern Olympics by that name, but I had no idea it was such a powerful name in itself. A quick search of the Worldly Wise Web gives […]
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Me myself I
A good traveling companion is hard to find. Everyone, it seems, has his or her little idiosyncrasy. We’re all a trifle odd and, given that it’s the little things about one another that set us off, we need to use caution when choosing a trail mate or a paddling partner. Small annoyances are magnified by […]
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It’s a vertical world
I drove out the night before and car-camped in the weeds at the end of the road. Anything to get an early start. It used to be that you could drive to the Constance trailhead but flooding in 2002 claimed a 300-foot section of the roadway, effectively cutting off five miles of gravel road, two […]
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Lake Constance
Just got back from an excellent day. Lake Constance and back, and yes, that trail took it out of me. More on the trip tomorrow.
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Old pennies
There are buildings in Prague that are 900 years old. Imagine that. Actual structures, multi-storey homes and public houses, some of them built on foundations laid by Roman conquerors centuries before. Around the Old Town Square in downtown Prague, Staromestska namesti, the gothic buildings stand as they have for so many years, through so many […]
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A grand notion
I have been thinking about the Summit to the Sea. I’ve always thought it would be an interesting study in contrasts to descend the length of the Hoh River, from its beginnings in the glaciers of Mount Olympus, through mountain streams and cascades, and emerging finally at the place where the clear mountain water mixes […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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