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Jobs, money and kayaks

Posted by Ken Campbell April 3, 2011 0 Comment 1092 views

When I first started kayaking, almost all the boats were made in the US or Canada. There were a few British boats on the scene as well, made in Great Britain, and a few others from Mexico, but the lion’s share of the manufacturing took place in North America. Now, of course, things have changed […]

Military spending

Posted by Ken Campbell April 1, 2011 0 Comment 1078 views

The Spruce Railroad Trail, just west of Port Angeles, is a four-mile section that connects the North Shore and the Lyre River trailheads and runs along the scenic shores of Lake Crescent. It’s not backcountry. But it is beautiful. The original right-of-way was constructed during World War I by the Spruce Production Division of the […]

Cartography

Posted by Ken Campbell March 31, 2011 0 Comment 1202 views

Do you ever look at maps? I don’t mean do you consult a map from time to time to figure out where you’re going, I mean do you ever just unfold a map onto the table and look at it? A map of a place you’ve never been and may or may not ever visit? […]

Of watches and warnings

Posted by Ken Campbell March 30, 2011 0 Comment 1130 views

It’s flooding season again here in western Washington. Of course, we’re talking about a season with notoriously elastic boundaries, some years beginning in January and ending in December. That said, spring is often a time of high water around these parts, when sandbags and insurance coverage are often pressed into duty. At some point, within […]

A Counting game

Posted by Ken Campbell March 29, 2011 0 Comment 1129 views

I’ve been doing some research, been grazing in the fields of the internet, as it were, trying to settle on a pollution sampling method that will mesh with the parameters of this summer’s trip. There’s a method used by the Pangaea Exploration that seems pretty straightforward, but it doesn’t address the micro-plastic problem that is […]

Gray morning paddle

Posted by Ken Campbell March 27, 2011 0 Comment 1204 views

On some weekend in March, near the end of the month, some random foggy morning. There is a light rain falling, off and on, nothing that we don’t take for granted around these parts. Wispy clouds, falling tendrils of mist, undulating through the sky between me and the Gig Harbor entrance. To my right is […]

Cleansing the sinuses

Posted by Ken Campbell March 26, 2011 0 Comment 1158 views

I went out to the pool last night for some roll practice. In the nick of time, I’d have to say… I am apparently well off my skills. I’ve done some combat rolls in the last couple of years – surf-induced, for the most part – and all has gone well. I have not, however, […]

Up that Rainier

Posted by Ken Campbell March 23, 2011 2 Comments 1136 views

Here’s the latest in the Mount Rainier series I’m working on for visitrainier.com. The climbing date is fast approaching and the operation has already gone through some changes. More to follow…

Treading water

Posted by Ken Campbell March 22, 2011 2 Comments 1365 views

Here, in no particular order, are some photos from last weekend at the memorial for Ellen DeBondt. It was a privilege to be a part of the celebration of Ellen’s life, and looking around at the others that she had brought together that day on Crescent Bay, I was reminded of how powerful one person […]

Simple

Posted by Ken Campbell March 21, 2011 1 Comment 1185 views

In 1925, an exploring party took a two-way radio with them into the jungles of the Amazon. In what was hailed as an historic achievement, they remained in daily contact with the media and the thousands of readers who were following along with their progress. (If that doesn’t sound like Facebook 1.0, I don’t know […]