Talking Story Archives - Page 7 of 114

First morning, 2013

Posted by Ken Campbell January 1, 2013 2 Comments 1816 views

“All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.” Henry David Thoreau

Another one

Posted by Ken Campbell December 31, 2012 1 Comment 1473 views

It’s happened again, another perfectly good year come and gone. I am, in general, pleased with the way this year has progressed. It was last January that Steve and I sat down to discuss what would eventually become the Ikkatsu Project, a film-making and environmental undertaking that has turned into my job over the last […]

To the snow

Posted by Ken Campbell December 26, 2012 0 Comment 1336 views

We’ll be heading up to the mountain a little later this week… doing a bit of xc skiing, snowshoeing and playing board games. Ideally, I’ll get enough material to write a few pieces for visitrainier.com, which would be great, since I haven’t done nearly enough along those lines lately. Beyond that, it’s really just a […]

Christmahannukwanzakuh

Posted by Ken Campbell December 25, 2012 0 Comment 1360 views

In whatever way you choose to celebrate whatever it is you celebrate at this time of the year, may your days be merry and bright, may your troubles slip and fall on the road as they try to find you and may all your dreams come true, in all the colors of the rainbow.

Bivouac

Posted by Ken Campbell December 24, 2012 3 Comments 1471 views

“It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat’s plans and a man’s are worth about the same.” Mark Twain Following the Equator I could go into a long and detailed story about my […]

Back to Mosquito Creek

Posted by Ken Campbell December 21, 2012 0 Comment 1397 views

I’m in Aberdeen at the moment, a short pit stop before heading out to Oil City, the southern end of the coast trail in Olympic National Park. I’m going to try to get up to Mosquito Creek to take a look at the dock section that has come ashore there. It will be something of […]

Voice from the past

Posted by Ken Campbell December 20, 2012 0 Comment 1367 views

Earlier this week, the film clip referenced below was uploaded onto my Facebook wall. I’ve watched it a half-dozen times already. It was just a couple weeks ago that I wrote something about the Monkey Wrench Gang… since then I’ve been thumbing through some books of Abbey’s essays. Ed died in 1989. I feel like […]

To the bar

Posted by Ken Campbell December 20, 2012 1 Comment 1946 views

It all started about 15 years ago, on a guide training paddle out around Cape Flattery. There were about a dozen of us paddling from Hobuck Beach to Neah Bay, just a day trip, and we’d stopped for lunch at the little pocket beach right at the corner of the cape. Most of us had […]

$Shameless commerce, Part 3$

Shameless commerce, Part 3

Posted by Ken Campbell December 18, 2012 0 Comment 1245 views

After pushing countless logs out from under the house yesterday in efforts to protect our pipes from drift missiles, it turns out that today is going to be a plumbing day anyway. I managed to save the pipes (I think), but further up the line, something completely took out our reservoir and primary pump, which […]

Wind and water

Posted by Ken Campbell December 17, 2012 0 Comment 1395 views

King tides? Global climate change? Everybody in Seattle flushing at the same time? Hard to say. Probably a combination of the first two… there sure is a lot of water down here this morning though and a lot of wind pushing it around. I’ve got a couple more hours of grunt work pushing the lumber […]