InReach Fail?
Many of us carry and use InReach communication devices for safety and texting home or to people with other devices. They're expensive and even more so if they set off a false alarm for SOS.Read the...
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Kanger-roo
Earlier this month I flew from Anchorage to Keflavik, Iceland and then on to Nuuk, Greenland.I'd never been to either country but always wanted to go, of course. Many of you readers have likely been to...
View ArticleThe Firn Line
Many years—maybe like two decades ago in the 1990s—Anchorage entrepreneur, Bob Kaufman, started his Alaska Channel and began tinkering with video. He and I once discussed how great it would be to...
View ArticlePseudo-Haiku Notebook
We went on a bird-watching centered vacation last Spring Break (2017) in Arizona, following a route mapped out for us by Brad Meiklejohn.We were struck by all the Border Guards and other birders we saw...
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Trial and error,Failure and terror,The truth of the matter at hand.Death in a whisperIs so much to weatherFor the life of aWife and her man.Costa RicaDecember 2014
View ArticleFirn Line Live at Alaska Rock Gym
This was a fun night. Thanks to Evan and the Rock Gym for making it happen.What really made it great for me was all the people I knew who were there: Brad Meiklejohn, Luc Mehl, Carl Tobin and his...
View ArticleDick Griffith Film Kickstarter
A friend of mine who’s one of the best whitewater boaters I have ever paddled with said that the adventuring community and what we do is like a big, woven tapestry that we all contribute to with our...
View ArticleWhat color should glacier algae be?
This is an article that came out this month in an international journal on microbial ecology. My co-authors include Ganey who did the experiment with chalk dust and McKenzie Skiles of the University of...
View ArticleGolden Age Nostalgia
After reading Luc Mehl's guest blog at the Alpacka web site I indulged in some nostalgia from 2009-2010.If you're reading this, then you really should go read Luc's post. I found it flattering and a...
View ArticleNext Gen
Watching these makes me think I was born 30 years too soon.He has many many more, too. Go check out his channel on You tube.
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Ten Years and Thirty
Last week I went to Revelate Designs' Ten year anniversary party. Revelate is to bikepacking what Alpacka is to packrafting: the tool-maker for the sport.Anyway, thirty years ago this year (2018) Carl...
View ArticleAcademic Job at Alaska Pacific University
Hard to believe but after about 25 years, Carl Tobin is retiring from APU, and the school is looking to hire a PhD ecologist to fill his position.So if you, or anybody you know, would like to live and...
View ArticleThe Sun is a Compass
Caroline van Hemert and her husband Pat made an epic journey from Bellingham to Kotzebue in 2012. Pat made their boats that they rowed Jill Fredston-style up the Inside Passage to Haines, where they...
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The Adventurer's Son
My book about raising our son, then losing and finding him, is done. William Morrow, an "imprint" of Harper Collins, is releasing it Feb 18, 2020 a few days before Cody Roman would have turned 33.It is...
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Book Release Event: February 19, 2020 at Bear Tooth Theatrepub, Anchorage
On Wednesday, February 19 at Anchorage's Bear Tooth Theatrepub, Title Wave Books will host the release of The Adventurer's Son. Luc Mehl will MC.Admission is free.From 5:30-6:30 I'll have a...
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Steve Rinella hosted me as a guest on a recent "Meateater Podcast." He's a pretty intense guy, and having read his book American Buffalo I really looked forward to meeting him. Here's the...
View ArticleA Good Place for FREE Downloads of USGS topo maps to look at on Google Earth...
For old-school, old-dog, old-farts like me, nothing beats the crutch of USGS topo-maps. Perhaps it sounds heretical but I'm not really a fan of Cal-Topo: too gimmicky with bad naming conventions for...
View ArticleFLYING SNAKE!
Busy with science in a tropical tree, 200-feet off the ground, I heard a squirrel. Looking, I saw not a rodent, but a 3-foot serpent, dangling in a long, lazy S. Gently swaying, it leapt free, its body...
View ArticleAnother Podcast: Kirkus Book Reviews
The wild ride through the publishing world has been fascinating.This podcast with Kirkus Book Reviews was memorable. The host Megan Labrise was easy to talk to, well-informed, asked good questions. She...
View ArticleFresh Air with Dave Davies
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811708372/a-father-searches-for-his-son-and-answers-in-the-costa-rican-jungle
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Raftpacking is purposely carrying fewer rafts than the number of people on...
If “packrafting” can be considered walk-assisted boating, then “raftpacking” can be considered boat-assisted walking. Let’s say that you and your friends or family are making a wilderness traverse of a...
View ArticleAlaskan Wilderness Travel Dial-style as of 15 years ago...but not too outdated!
Powerpoint from 2005, when I tried to impress Ned Rozell with my semi-quantitative ideas for Alaskan wilderness travel based on concepts from ecology and mathematical models...didn't really work, but...
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The Book we've all been waiting for....The Packraft Handbook by Luc Mehl and...
It’s difficult to imagine a better pair of people to put together a packrafting handbook than author Luc Mehl and illustrator Sarah Glaser. Both were raised in Alaska—prime packraft habitat—with...
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The Treeline Traverse
Over the last five years or so, I've been studying treeline advance in the Brooks Range, leading me to assemble a route that I call "Walking Treeline" that pieces together a series of interesting...
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