Posts filed under "Talking Story"
Up the Elwha
From the time I first arrived in Washington to stay, back in the misty memory of the mid 1980’s, I have been drawn to the Olympic Peninsula. The way it sits there, close – but not too close, attached – but distinctly different… its tantalizing and unique solitude appealed to me instantly. There used to […]
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Intermission
Olympics was great… up the Elwha, out the Quinault. Then on to Crescent Beach to beat the heat and get some SUP surfing in. Home now (for about 16 hours), then on to Montana in the morning. Much to do, can’t talk now. Here are some random photos… stories to follow.
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Way, way out of the office
Incommunicado again. I leave this evening for Port Angeles and the Whiskey Bend trailhead, then begin hiking tomorrow. I’m planning on retracing (more or less), the route taken by the Press Party on that first Olympic crossing almost 120 years ago. I’ll be taking approximately one ton less supplies with me – no bacon, flour, […]
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A T-town salute
If you ever write anything down in the outdoors, whether it’s on a glacier somewhere, on a windy beach or at a high school football game, you probably already know about Rite-in-the-Rain products. Made right here in Tacoma (the City of Destiny, y’know). It isn’t often that I find myself in the backcountry without one […]
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My left foot
Last winter I stepped on a nail. That puncture still gives me some pain. I had the doctor look at it a month ago and he said I should maybe think of seeing a podiatrist. On July 4th, I gouged out a 2-inch chunk of the arch on a barnacle. (That scar is still visible […]
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SUP Social – July edition
A Public Service Announcement There is a Standup Paddleboard Social this evening, July 22nd, at Owen Beach in Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park, from 6pm-8pm. Demo paddleboards will be available to try out and area paddlers will be on hand to help explain the basics of this exciting new sport. The event is hosted by Backpackers […]
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It begins
I started the process today, putting the pack together for the Press Party hike coming up this weekend. I’m planning on heading out to the Elwha on Saturday evening, then spending the next week following the route that the Press Expedition took on their Olympic crossing of 1889-1890. Up the Elwha River to Low Divide […]
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Dreams in the night sky
On July 16, 1969, three men shuffled off the boring constraints of gravity and rode a giant candle to their date with destiny. Luna. The moon. Just nine years earlier, President John F. Kennedy had promised that by the end of the decade the country would put a man on the moon and return him […]
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Mary’s flowers
The day after my hike on Klahane Ridge, Mary took time to do a solo of her own down the Hurricane Hill trail, from Hurricane Ridge down to the Elwha River. The top part of the trail is a ramble through the high country meadows and the wildflowers were out in force. She took a […]
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Foiled again
Mount Angeles is not a difficult mountain to climb. It’s a scramble really, rather than a true climbing experience, steep but nontechnical. It’s one of the most frequently climbed peaks in the entire range; it seems most anybody can get up it except me. I tried it once in winter. Sleet and driving snow kept […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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