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Fun on the sea

Posted by Ken Campbell February 19, 2012 2 Comments 1216 views

We’ve been working on the shop the past few days, trying to get it presentable in time for a March 1st opening (which still seems impossible). Progress is slow, but perhaps today will be the big breakthrough. For a while at the end of last week, we were ferrying supplies by boat from the beach […]

Ghost Forests

Posted by Ken Campbell February 17, 2012 0 Comment 1117 views

The term “Ghost Forests” sounds like something out of Scooby Doo (or is it just that I have been watching too much children’s television these past few years?) Actually, ghost forests are stands of dead trees, whole forests killed off by salt water intrusion as a result of earthquakes and/or tsunamis. Click here for a […]

Working

Posted by Ken Campbell February 16, 2012 2 Comments 1147 views

The due date for this baby is still March 1st, even though the place is still a construction zone. Literally. I built a wall today. Tomorrow and the next day are welding days, painting days, stuff like that. It seems so unlikely that it will all be ready to go by the 1st of March, […]

Dug in

Posted by Ken Campbell February 14, 2012 0 Comment 1115 views

In retrospect, I learned a lot. I have a much better understanding now of what it takes to build a snow cave and, more importantly, what it’s like to spend the night in one. (It may not have been the worst sleep of my life, but it was close.) As I was building it, laying […]

Snowshoe link

Posted by Ken Campbell February 11, 2012 0 Comment 1131 views

It won’t be light yet for another couple of hours but I still have to pack. Which, when you live in one place and all your gear is kept in another, can sometimes be a complicated process. We won’t be going to Paradise today – our camp site will probably be closer to Reflection Lakes […]

Rat race

Posted by Ken Campbell February 10, 2012 1 Comment 1050 views

These are the days of endless toil. Meetings (even with beer, they’re still meetings), carpentry and painting chores to get the new shop open on time, teaching classes, taking classes, and a host of big and little things that need to get done if this summer’s expedition is going to work. (I know, I know. […]

Plasticized, part 2

Posted by Ken Campbell February 9, 2012 0 Comment 1051 views

I don’t want to be depressing. It’s already a foggy, rain-soaked morning and it doesn’t need any help from me to seem more gloomy. The Ides of February, as it were. But I’ve been doing a bit of reading lately – “Reading rots the mind,” Ed Abbey used to say- and I’ve been reading a […]

A Break in the weather

Posted by Ken Campbell February 7, 2012 1 Comment 1165 views

The spate of good weather we’ve been enjoying for the past four or five days is about to come to an end. So say the weather watchers who are paid to know about such things, anyway. It has always seemed to me that we get a week or two of very mild conditions during the […]

Drifting

Posted by Ken Campbell February 5, 2012 0 Comment 1159 views

In October 1832, the junk Hojun Maru left Japan with a load of rice and ceramics. After being swept out to sea in a typhoon and drifting for 450 days, the ship ran aground on the rocky Olympic coast just south of Cape Flattery. The only survivors were the captain and two cabin boys, who […]

Shouting out

Posted by Ken Campbell February 3, 2012 0 Comment 1045 views

I just got off the phone with my good friend Chris. Talk of lots of things, from Backpackers Supply to the upcoming Pummel at La Push to surf stories. Which is when he told me about this new site he’s been writing for – actually, I don’t know how “new” it is, but it’s completely […]