Posts filed under "Talking Story"
PSC 2010
The Olympic Kayak Club is putting together another Puget Sound Challenge this year, with a slightly different route. From Port Townsend to Allyn, (it’s billed as being 150 miles, but it doesn’t seem like it’s quite that far – I’d have to check), the route covers much of the same area as last year, but […]
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Canoes, rivers and time
In the tiny Indian village of Taholah there is a large, wooden garage filled with native canoes. Dugouts, each carved from a single massive log, along with a few plank-sided craft, sit quietly in the shadows, in various stages of construction and repair. Up on brackets along the north wall of the building is a […]
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Odds and ends
All over the Northwest, the snow pack in the higher elevations is accumulating more slowly than normal. Except in the Olympics. The snow that is already on the ground is deeper than usual at this time of year and it continues to fall… something of an anomaly, really. Between 1 and 2 feet fell over […]
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Funny, it doesn’t feel like January
Got away for the day to Crescent Beach. Blue skies and sun, little waves but… better than no waves at all. And it was crowded, more people than I’ve seen there before. Board surfers, sit-on-top kayakers and surf shoes, whitewater boats and a couple little Mariner Coasters. It has been a while since I’ve been […]
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The Neighborhood
In 2000, I was in Newfoundland, on a 91-day kayak trip around the ancient rocky shores of Canada’s easternmost Province. In 13 weeks, I paddled almost 1800 miles; Mary joined me for the 300-mile section along the south coast and the rest of it was done solo. In fact, it was on that trip, on […]
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Too soon gone
It was five years ago, maybe six, when I was coach of the Bellarmine Prep girls C-Team Softball squad. Fifteen ninth-grade girls, some of whom actually had talent. We won some games, lost others, but the experience was a good one, and it was a fine season. Every now and then, I’d be lucky enough […]
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The bottom line
According to this morning’s paper, possible budget cuts will force closure of some 20 campgrounds and trail systems across the State. It’s the DNR (Department of Nothing Remaining, as Abbey would say), that’s on the block in this instance, and sites that might get axed include Mima Mounds, Mount Si and Little Si trailheads, and […]
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No kidding, take a class
According to Seattle police, the two men who were pulled from the Sound a few miles south of the West Point lighthouse had been drinking. Huh, no kidding. Didn’t see that one coming. According to first responders, the two men, 36 and 28 years of age, had downed a few tankards of ale while watching […]
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Air show
The Olympic flying squirrel is a nocturnal creature, which might explain why I’ve never seen one. It’s not that they are uncommon in the Olympic forests – many a hollow tree holds the den of these flyboys – it’s just that they don’t put out much noise. They are large for their genus, getting up […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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