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Puget Sound Challenge – Day 7

Posted by Ken Campbell March 29, 2009 0 Comment 929 views

Being that it was a Sunday morning, and being that I’d been up and moving my camp to higher ground at 1:30 in the morning, and also that I knew it was going to be a short day anyway… with all these considerations tilting me in one direction, I slept in. Where the other days […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 6

Posted by Ken Campbell March 28, 2009 0 Comment 967 views

I awoke to a damp sleeping bag, the night’s condensation soaking through to chill me before I even got out of bed. I don’t know what the temperatures got down to during the night, but when I got up, well before sunrise, it was still below freezing. As I packed up the camp, a fog […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 5

Posted by Ken Campbell March 26, 2009 0 Comment 921 views

After taking the second day of this leg off, more or less, I couldn’t complain that I wasn’t rested. I woke up at my beachside camp on the Toandos Peninsula just before dawn and I was underway within the hour. Even though the wind was still blowing, it hadn’t picked up to the speed of […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 4

Posted by Ken Campbell March 25, 2009 0 Comment 854 views

My internal alarm clock (apparently located near my bladder), woke me right at 6 AM. Forty-five minutes later, I was packed and ready to depart. I rode the river out to salt water, until it got too shallow where it fanned out toward the canal. I spooked a couple of dozen harbor seals from their […]

Puget Sound Challenge – Day 3

Posted by Ken Campbell March 24, 2009 0 Comment 963 views

An early Wednesday morning found me picking up where I left off back at the end of February. The day was overcast and calm, the water glossy and undisturbed from the near shore as far up Hood Canal as I could see. There was snow in the foothills across the canal and the clearcuts stood […]

Pictures from an expedition

Posted by Ken Campbell March 23, 2009 0 Comment 872 views

I finished the second leg of the Puget Sound Challenge yesterday. Mary and Micah picked me up at the Bella Luna Pizzaria, just off the water at Suquamish. (Excellent pie and a location that can’t be beat.) I calculated the total distance today – I didn’t get as far as I wanted, but I am […]

Off line

Posted by Ken Campbell March 18, 2009 0 Comment 1012 views

I believe I have it together now. All the pieces of gear, compressed and compact, or as compact as I can get them. Total weight is just under 30 pounds, but that’s without water. I’ll be curious to see how much less I’ll have to carry when the weather gets better… with the cold, I […]

Insensitive

Posted by Ken Campbell March 17, 2009 0 Comment 935 views

I have been told that my post of a few days back, in which I spoke of the kayak industry in a less than favorable manner… well, I’ve been advised that it may have been a bit offside. If I remember correctly, I said something about a couple of specific kayak manufacturers who were no […]

What the… Snow?

Posted by Ken Campbell March 15, 2009 0 Comment 959 views

I got the weather on my mind, it’s true. This is the time of year when I think about it more than any other. In the dead of winter, you know it’s not going to be easy. There may not be snow, but it will be cold. And wet. And dark. It’s expected, so you […]

Prognosticatin’

Posted by Ken Campbell March 14, 2009 0 Comment 980 views

The second leg of my SUP attempt of the Puget Sound Challenge is set to begin next Wednesday. (Been thinking about starting with a night paddle on Tuesday actually… we’ll have to see what becomes of that.) I’m encouraged by the weather forecast. Higher temps predicted, and getting progressively warmer each day. If it goes […]