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On monkey wrenching

Posted by Ken Campbell December 2, 2012 1 Comment 2298 views

I just finished reading The Monkey Wrench Gang for the 50th time. (OK, maybe not the 50th time, but it has to be somewhere up there.) I get something different out of that old diatribe every time I pick it up. Edward Abbey was a unique writer and when I listen to the way he […]

Hello Seattle!

Posted by Ken Campbell December 1, 2012 0 Comments 1310 views

The film, Ikkatsu; The Roadless Coast, will be making its Emerald City debut on February 19, 2013 at the Mountaineers Program Center. Tickets are only $8.00 and supply is limited. You can get yours now at Brown Paper Tickets. All proceeds go to the Ikkatsu Project and will help fund future expeditions, outreach and cleanup […]

Mountain time again

Posted by Ken Campbell November 29, 2012 0 Comments 1223 views

There’s a rain on again today… the trails in Point Defiance are bound to be muddy. Not that I mind, especially. Just an observation. I guess the up side to that is that, at the higher elevations, the snow is falling. I’ve got a considerable backlog of stories to do for visitrainier.com – snowshoeing and […]

Insidious

Posted by Ken Campbell November 28, 2012 0 Comments 1297 views

You know how, when you have a cold and you blow your nose again and again, after a while the bottom of the nose gets cherry red and rashy? You know how it feels raw and hot after a hundred blows? And how, eventually, if you keep it up, you get to the point where […]

Flight of the orca

Posted by Ken Campbell November 27, 2012 2 Comments 1432 views

I’m not sure how I missed it. I try to stay informed but somehow the story about the potential delisting of the whales caught me by surprise. In retrospect, there’s nothing surprising about it… it’s just sad. It seems that a conservative legal foundation has won a review of the idea that the Puget Sound […]

Tiptoe through the Rubus

Posted by Ken Campbell November 25, 2012 3 Comments 1246 views

We made it down to the beach south of Portage Head, the beach we stayed at back in early July. Eventually. There is no trail down there… some may tell you that there is but do not believe them if they do. Still, it is possible to do it – we did. Through muddy, steep […]

Waiting for bacon

Posted by Ken Campbell November 24, 2012 0 Comments 1285 views

I have stayed in a variety of places in my travels, but there are some that stand out. I’m pretty sure, as the time continues, that this will live on in my memory as one of the good ones. The NOAA trailer on the Coast Guard base at Neah Bay, if you’re wondering… thank you, […]

Back to Portage

Posted by Ken Campbell November 23, 2012 0 Comments 1306 views

We found a little pocket beach this summer, just south of Portage Head, where there was more debris per-square-meter than anywhere else we landed. It was difficult to count the number of disposable bottles, fishing supplies and general plastic crap – there was so much of it in such a small area. Because it was […]

Crazy

Posted by Ken Campbell November 21, 2012 2 Comments 1460 views

I’m thinking about building a boat. A plastic boat. A boat made out of plastic bottles, styrofoam scraps and other discarded pieces of plastic flotsam that I am finding. I’ve gone online, looked at the examples that others have made. I’ve written Marcus Eriksen – who has made a few of them himself – and […]

My inner Druid

Posted by Ken Campbell November 20, 2012 1 Comment 1378 views

One more month. That’s how long we have before the days start getting longer again. Sunrise today will come at 7:22am and sunset is scheduled for 4:28pm. That’s barely more than 9 hours of daylight… and there’s still a month to go of that number getting even smaller. By the solstice, December 21st, daylight in […]