Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Ikkatsu daily report – Cedar Creek
As I wind down these updates (in unreal time), I’m getting my stuff ready for the next leg. There is gear to be packed – again – and itineraries to get pieced together. The next section, although shorter than the last, may be my favorite part of the roadless coast. I have only paddled it […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Wedding Rocks – Cedar Creek
It’s hard to believe, as I sit here at my table on a cool and damp Northwest summer morning, that there are significant parts of the country that are literally burning up under a harsh, red sun. It’s not gloating and I certainly feel for the suffering ones, but I am very happy to be […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Wedding Rocks
While the media attention has tapered off since we got back from the second leg of the trip, there are a pair of notable interviews coming up in the next few days. On Tuesday, all three of us are going to be talking with National Geographic Radio which, I must say, is a serious thrill […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Shi Shi to Wedding Rocks
I got a call from a Seattle reporter yesterday morning who seemed interested in talking with us about the issue of debris in general – not just the tsunami material – a deeper and more complicated topic. We spent twenty minutes or so on the phone, a good conversation, and I could tell that he […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Part deux
It’s been a bit of a media flurry the past day or so, ever since the news about the soccer ball hit the ether. (Not as much commotion as when we found the house – or part of a house – back in June, but still, lots of phone calls and emails to countries and […]
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Ikkatsu daily report – Phase II
There has been a bit of excitement over the past 12 hours or so over the soccer ball we found on the last day of the latest part of the trip. Initial reports are that it came from a soccer club in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, one of the communities hardest-hit by the earthquake and tsunami […]
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Ikkatsu phase II – Daily report
The following is the first in a series of reports that I’m doing for CNN. I’m posting it here as well, along with some of the photos that I took along the way, but it will be on the CNN site with other images and video from Steve later. It’s going to be a day-by-day […]
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Ikkatsu – Second stage complete
The second leg of the Ikkatsu expedition is in the books. We covered the distance between Hobuck Beach and La Push in a leisurely seven days but the trip, just to set the record straight, was anything but leisurely. Two nights just south of Portage Head, one night at Shi Shi, two nights at Wedding […]
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The Best
It’s funny how there are some pieces of gear that are used a few times, then lost, discarded or otherwise disposed of. I can remember tents that I used to have, packs, even kayaks – all long gone now. Each had its own reasons for its obsolescence, but the end was the same for all. […]
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Leg number two
Left this morning on the second leg of the Ikkatsu Expedition, Hobuck Beach to La Push. I don’t know how many chances I’m going to have to update this site en route, but we will hopefully be able to get our words and images out to CNN on a regular basis. Check CNN.com for more […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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