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My newsletter explores paddling trips, on-water insights, and historical highlights across the Salish Sea, inspired by my award-winning book “Paddling the Salish Sea 80 Trips” from Mountaineers Books.
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Salmon Bay Through Time: Toward the Bridge and the Locks (opens the original)
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Here’s another Now and Then composite view of Lower Salmon Bay in Seattle, this time looking east toward the future city.If you’re not familiar with the location, Salmon Bay splits the Seattle neighborhoods of Magnolia to the south/southwest and Ballard to the north. It sits below the Ballard Locks and drains the Ship Canal, Lake Union, Portage Bay, and Lake Washington into Puget Sound.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aGxX!,f_auto,q_auto:
My Bucket Paddling List Trips for 2026-2027 (opens the original)
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When I was updating my book in 2023, I did a lot of test trips to see if they’d make it in. Along the way, I also found a few trip options that weren’t right for the book, either due to the experience level required, or because they fell outside the book’s intended range.Also my editors felt some of the trips further north wouldn’t get enough interest to justify including them in a book meant to sell broadly. That said, some of those further-north trips are places I still find genuinely interest
Port Angeles: Agate Beach Through Time (opens the original)
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Bordering the west side of Crescent Beach on the Olympic Peninsula is Agate Rock (formerly Clam Point). The ‘rock’ is a tree topped medium bluff point or headland surrounded by thick bull kelp beds. A historically rich area, the Klallam or S’Klallam people had a village in Crescent Bay titled k̕ʷaʔšə́nəm since time immemorial with abundant resources from the coastline and Salt Creek which flowed throughout the year.In 1865, Crescent Bay was inhabited by three former Hudson Bay trappers and their
The Single Best Paddler’s Leg Exercise for Longevity and Brain Health (opens the original)
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When paddle boarding began to show up in Seattle in 2006, I wanted in. I had been doing all sorts of kayaking for a few years prior, but after getting stuck upside down in a surf kayak due to an overly tight spray skirt, I was looking for a more open-cockpit (or no-cockpit) way of paddling. This led to teaching myself how to paddleboard, since there was no SUP coaching at the time in my region. I did so by applying my kayaking skills.Twenty years later, after starting a SUP coaching business, es
Lower Salmon Bay, Seattle: The Bay Before the Locks (opens the original)
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Since time immemorial the Shilshole or šilšul (or Shilshoolabsh) people lived on what is now called Salmon Bay in Seattle. Located on the northwest shores part of Seattle, Salmon Bay splits the Ballard neighborhood from Magnolia and was once a saltwater inlet stretching as far east as Fremont. The village once had two 100’ longhouses and one large house for ceremonies, all inside Salmon Bay what is now Ballard.As lushootseed speaking people the endonym is šilšulabš, which means “people of šilšul
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