Posts filed under "Talking Story"
A walk in the park
There is the skeleton of a trail that runs between Jefferson and Clallam counties, a trail that will someday connect Port Townsend with La Push. Using miles of former rail right-of-way and land donations, along with negotiated use agreements, the Olympic Discovery Trail is currently about 30% completed with another 30% funded and scheduled for […]
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Polar recap
The first annual (first ever), Polar Bear Paddle was a resounding success. Twenty-five paddlers total – 24 in kayaks and 1 on a SUP – putting in at Owen Beach, paddling down to Ruston Way and finishing up about 2 hours later. It was good to see this many people out on the first day […]
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Do the bear
Happy New Year! If you can make it down, I’ll see you at Owen Beach, 11 AM, New Year’s Day. The 1st Annual T-Town Polar Bear Paddle… Years from now, you’ll want to be able to say that you were there! For more info, check out the Matelot site, follow updates and messages on the […]
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Blue moon
There’s a blue moon on New Year’s Eve this year, a combination that certainly must be fairly rare.* As rare as the last day of the year, the dregs of 2009, the final few lines and movements. One more day to get it done, whatever “it” may be, before the odometer rolls over for another […]
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Looking forward
As a somewhat obsessive list-maker, I am drawn at this time of the year to review the vitals – where I’ve been, where I want to go next. Not resolutions exactly, but rather a guidance system for the upcoming year. Cairns of experiences, Inukshuks of the mind. In terms of the Olympics, there are places […]
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Stirring it up (Part 2)
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and overall environmental savant, said it this way in his book Let My People Go Surfing: “One of the hardest things for a business to do is to investigate the environmental effects of its most successful product and, if it’s bad, to change it or pull it off the shelves. […]
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Boxing Day
The sun was out this afternoon and I took advantage of a couple hours of down time to get a daylight paddle in. Launching from Steilacoom and heading south down the shore, I made it quickly down to the old Steilacoom Marina. All that’s left is a pile of rubble now, after a fire completely […]
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Stirring it up
I am rethinking plastic. Specifically plastic kayaks, but one thing is always connected to another, isn’t it – who knows where it will all end? It’s convenient and so damned practical, after all, this plastic. The problem is that polycarbonates and polyethylenes (along with an alphabet soup of multi-syllabic related compounds), are the guest who […]
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The Grand Circles
When I was a kid, my wild country was Lake Los Carneros, just a quarter-mile from our house in Goleta, California. I rode my bike down the trails beneath the eucalyptus, down to the swampy northern shore, where some of the older kids had built jumps and forts and stashed their dirty magazines. I hiked […]
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Here’s to the tilt
Is it warmer out there? Does it seem warmer to you? Maybe it’s just that it’s not as cold as it was last week, when it was in the teens and twenties. It’s not as cold as all that, so in comparison, conditions today seem almost spring-like. Or, you know, maybe it’s all because we’ve […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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