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Waylaid in Moscow
Loading ...How we handle the unpredictability of traveling is what separates adventure from disaster. We missed the final leg of our flight to Kamchatka by five minutes as a result of a very slow customs line and a few bags that showed up three hours after the rest of our gear. With no flight till the [...]
Winter in the Grand
Loading ...The Grand Canyon is something many Americans associate with their youth, that family trip half endured and half enjoyed. But that view is not enough for a smaller subset driven to experience the power of the ‘Grand’.
Spectacular, Violent Butze Rapids
Loading ...Not one wave but many including whirl-pools, pourovers, and breaking waves that form as tide water squeezes through narrow channels. Exactly what you want when searching for the biggest tidal rapids in the world.
A Little TLC
Loading ...Two years ago I traveled to Washington to help my friend Bob Kelim build my first skin-on-frame qajaq. I remember the excitement of taking it on the water for the first time, happy that the qajaq not only floated, but moved in a straight line… and that I had a part in building it.
Cape Flattery
Loading ...I recently had the opportunity to complete a classic line; rounding Cape Flattery – the most NW point in the continental United States. To the west of the Cape is the great Pacific to the north the Straight of Juan de Fuca. While the Pacific requires no introduction for the unfamiliar it should be pointed [...]
Bacon and the Ditch
Loading ...Bacon. Fatty, cured, made of pig, mmmmm bacon. I don’t eat much so why did I order 40lbs of that tasty skillet fodder? Its fuel for little metabolic furnaces that’ll be in overdrive Dec. 18, our put in date for the Grand Canyon.
