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Best of times

Posted by Ken Campbell February 26, 2009 0 Comment 1058 views

It’s been a year since I first started writing in this particular forum, since I decided to get serious about the Olympic Peninsula. Or maybe “serious” isn’t the right word. It’s been a year of early mornings, a year of coffee served with a view of the mountains, or the water. Windy days in a […]

Orange Crush

Posted by Ken Campbell February 24, 2009 0 Comment 1030 views

It is not a glamorous thing, this shuttle bike of mine. It is a Schwinn Varsity (the model that many of us, of a certain age, owned growing up). It is orange and heavy, with a little rust in some places and scattered irregularities in its steel rims. It is no longer a ten-speed, although […]

A New page

Posted by Ken Campbell February 22, 2009 0 Comment 1135 views

Updates on the Puget Sound Challenge SUP odyssey can be found on the Last Wilderness website (as opposed to this here blog) and will be posted as often as I feel like it. If you haven’t checked it out lately, take a look when you get the chance. As always, if you have any questions […]

Opportunity Cost

Posted by Ken Campbell February 21, 2009 0 Comment 959 views

I took an Economics class years ago, for some reason that must have been important at the time. I am not particularly good with numbers, and money has never been a passion of mine, so I don’t remember much of what I supposedly learned in the course, but there was one concept that has stuck […]

Synchronicity

Posted by Ken Campbell February 19, 2009 0 Comment 1011 views

Ever since I first stepped onto a Standup Paddleboard (SUP) last summer, I have been thinking about doing an extended trip. After all these years of kayaking – not that I’m done yet – I wanted to try something different and I knew from the first tentative paddle stroke I took on that demo board […]

Dam

Posted by Ken Campbell February 18, 2009 0 Comment 1046 views

Back in the Fall of 2007, I wrote a short Field Report for the Azimuth Expeditions web site about a family canoe outing on Lake Aldwell. At the time, a dam removal project was slated to begin in just a few months, and it was with a sense of urgency that I chose the destination. […]

Research

Posted by Ken Campbell February 16, 2009 0 Comment 952 views

Looking ahead to my upcoming SUP trip on Hood Canal, I have been perusing the web for tales of other touring paddleboarders. There are a few, but not many. I suspect that will change very quickly. One that I enjoyed was an account of a paddle around Cape Scott, at the northern tip of Vancouver […]

9 – 5

Posted by Ken Campbell February 16, 2009 0 Comment 1131 views

Got back from the family ski trip… Mary did the skiing part, I threw rocks in the river with the boy, hiked all over the town of Index and waited for trains to pass by. Which is just how we liked it. Suffice to say that we saw one very long train, hopped on many […]

To the mountains

Posted by Ken Campbell February 13, 2009 51 Comments 1240 views

The long weekend is here. To celebrate our fortune at being able to string four days together where we don’t have to work at someone else’s behest, we’re off to ski the weekend away at Steven’s Pass. Our family is part of a group of about 15 that will all be staying together in a […]

Fresh water

Posted by Ken Campbell February 12, 2009 0 Comment 1273 views

I finally got out of town at about 1:30pm. Not exactly an early start. I hadn’t planned on the snow either, but judging from the number of cars in the ditch along my route, neither did most of the other drivers out there. By the time I got to Belfair, it was already 3:00pm. Belfair […]