Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Wow!
At 6040 feet, Mount Wow is tied for 122nd place on the height chart for Washington mountains. Located just inside the southwest boundary of Mount Rainier National Park, the name apparently arises from the involuntary expression that climbers give out when they take in the view from the summit ridge. It isn’t a heavily visited […]
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A River runs over it
The local paper ran a piece about a month ago that detailed the threats to the roads of Mount Rainier, and began with the following: “The greatest threat to the busiest road in Mount Rainier National Park is the mountain itself.” It was a good article and I don’t want to restate the whole thing […]
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Baidarka tales
In the waning days of 1986, I was living in Ketchikan, Alaska, in a decrepit old house on Front Street with about 27 roommates. (Ah, those carefree days of intense poverty and random all-nighters.) I remember picking up a book that was laying around and thumbing through it for a while, a picture book about […]
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Big blue boats
I’m not really a rafter. I’ve done it a couple times before, as a passenger, but this time was the first that I’d ever been the guy in charge. Marc Mahoney was guiding the other raft and his advice to me consisted mainly of telling me that I would know what to do and, in […]
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Brrrr
A perfect day for a paddle! I didn’t get the exact head count, but there was a group of about 20 that made it on the water today for the second annual Polar Bear Paddle… the frigid weather undoubtedly kept some away, but for those who did brave the temps, we had a great out-and-back […]
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Diablo
At one time, the Diablo dam was the tallest in the world. At 389 feet, it towers over the Skagit River far below, and the waters that it holds back form the lake of the same name, one of several in a chain of artificial lakes engineered for the sake of Seattle’s appetite for electrical […]
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Another link
So much to write. And yet, so little real writing time. There’s wood to split, a house to clean, dinner to get together… all those chores and chunks of reality that take up the hours. I do have stories to tell: of the Skagit River and Diablo Lake. They are coming, rest assured. In the […]
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The national bird
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches […]
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It’s that day again…
No matter your culture or custom, wherever in the world you may be, we all have a way of wishing each other a Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad… Vesele Vanoce… Bon Nadal… Pace e salute… Joyeux Noel… Bo Nada… Frohliche Weinachten… Nollaig chridheil… Mele Kalikimaka… Gledileg Jol… Buone Feste Natalizie… Nollaig Shona Dhuit… Bon Pasco… Maligayang […]
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The weather outside is frightful
No telling where it goes from here. All this rain, and only more on the way. The 5-day forecast is all about falling water, which either means that the weatherman has taken the week off for the holidays or it really is going to be soggy throughout. The hillside behind the house is slowly (but […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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