Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Mittens recommended
If you’re looking for a snowball fight, you’ll want to consider Hurricane Ridge. There is still four feet of the white stuff left at the measuring station near the lodge, but it probably won’t be there too much longer. Most of the trail to Hurricane Hill is clear of snow already and what is left […]
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Hydrotherapy
In skimming over the past few entries, I can sense a certain negativity and rather pointed self-pity in some of the things I’ve written recently. There’s a lot going on. It’s times like these, when life is an even mix of worry and trouble, that I head for the water. There is a soothing effect […]
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Death of a salesman
I suppose I’ve always known it would happen. With new gear arriving every day and an optimistic feeling that maybe the economy is on the rebound, I wasn’t really expecting it to happen right now but when things end, I suppose it’s always a sudden rush. Backpackers Supply, the only privately-owned gear shop left in […]
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The way of things
I’ve written a few times about the End-of-Sea-Kayaking-As-We-Know-It, but I still wasn’t prepared for this one. This tale happens to be set in Wisconsin, but it is happening everywhere. Maybe not as obviously as this, maybe not as unexpected, but in terms of participation levels, kayaking seems to be drying up. The demographics are skewing […]
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Plasticized
I was thumbing through the paper the other day when I came across a story about plastic. More specifically, the story dealt with the tiny, virtually microscopic, pieces of plastic that are ubiquitous in the world’s oceans. Little specks of polymers, suspended in the water, that are eaten by fish, then by bigger fish and […]
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Gone paddlin’
A quick dawn patrol on the Foss today, then it’s time to drop off the boy at his Grandma’s house and hie out to the Key Peninsula for a two-day trip leader seminar at a summer camp. I’ll have a group of about 6 camp counselors, the ones who will be leading the various kayaking […]
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A New one on me
The Paddle the Shores weekend… have you heard of that? I consider myself to be relatively well informed when it comes to paddle sports events around the Pacific Northwest, but perhaps it’s time to reexamine that consideration. It seems there’s this paddling-centered weekend out in Ocean Shores in September, on the same weekend that used […]
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In the middle
The glow of the rising sun is starting to paint the eastern sky. Still well below the horizon line, but it gives itself away early. Hard to hide when you’re a star, I guess. The crescent moon hangs above the dawn like an ornament. With the coming day, the lunar sliver will fade into the […]
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Swamping
It could be that I am spending too much time worrying. Then again, it may turn out that I have not been worrying enough. It’s all about the navigational difficulties that are going to make up the initial phase of this summer’s trip. Route finding isn’t a big concern anywhere along the 425-mile course of […]
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Wet
There was a flood watch issued last Wednesday for the Skokomish. The rains that we’ve been having lately look more like what we’d get in November of January than normal for June, which instantly brings the Skokomish to the fore. Because the snow is melting in the higher elevations, the rivers are already running fairly […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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