Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Dirtbag Tour 2010
It is ironic, I think, that the title of the slide presentation I’ll be doing on this trip is “Wild Island Shorelines.” The shoreline I’ve been looking at all day is among the most intense and eternal I’ve ever seen, the very definition of wild. The gnarled stacks off the coast, ragged waves breaking on […]
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A California run
It’s going to be a quick trip, as quick as it can be in a Subaru. I have a presentation scheduled for Monday night down in Eureka and another the next night in Portland. (If you can make it, I’d love to see you at one of them.) I’m hoping to find some paddling and […]
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Changing direction
Sometime in January 1834, the tattered hulk of a Japanese ship hit the Olympic coast near Cape Alava. The Hojun Maru was a merchant ship that had left her home port of Onoura 14 months before on what was supposed to have been a downwind run to Tokyo. Instead, the easy trip to Edo – […]
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A Fine mess
It’s been a little over 2 years since I started this blog, mostly as a way to keep myself writing, even when I might not feel like doing so. Almost 400 posts to this point, some better than others. The actual writing is often done early in the morning and, because of the way the […]
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Tired and happy
To all of you single parents out there, my hat is off to you. It is some hard duty, tracking the little guy as he runs this way and that, bonking this and bruising the other, where some accidents can be cleared up with some antibiotic ointment and a Sponge Bob bandaid while others require […]
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In retreat
Some people stay in touch better than others. Cell phones, texting, email, tweets. It is one of the major technological victories of our time, this cyber-elimination of the barriers of time and space. Some people, a whole lot of people, are never really out of contact. I am not one of them. I am going […]
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Pummelized
The La Push Surf Pummel, 2010 edition, went off this past weekend. I have been going to La Push to kayak since the mid-1990’s, at every month of the year, and I have never seen conditions like they were this time. Dazzling blue skies, blazing sun, big waves and temperatures touching 60 degrees. In February. […]
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A New addition
According to the morning fish wrap, the National Park Service is looking to expand Olympic National Park by purchasing 240 acres in the Lake Ozette area. The proposed buy includes parts of Umbrella Creek that are critical habitat for native sockeye, along with additional acres of pristine forest. Current owners of the parcel, the Cascade […]
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Dazzled by Hollywood
It used to be, when I would walk around La Push all gussied up in a drysuit or a dry top or some other piece of specialty kayak wardrobe, I would feel somewhat odd. Or, at least, I would feel as though my clothing choice set me apart somehow, like maybe I was a bit […]
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Pummel time
The La Push Surf Pummel is scheduled for this weekend. Hard to believe there will be much pummeling involved – waves are supposed to be small the whole time – but even if the surf is down, there is still enough to keep me busy. More than I will have time for. I’m taking a […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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