Archive for March, 2010
For a week after Poe died, it felt strange when I’d return to Swell–no more chirping, no more fishy stink, and no more fuzzy head popping up? Instead I found only piles of progress-less projects staring at me. Despite grinding off the recent epoxy job and making a more precisely-fitting… Read the rest
Team Member Chelsey here:
Exactly a month ago today, my teammates and I were standing on a beach in Tierra Del Fuego. We were lined up with 52 other athletes, all of whom had gone through much to be there, at the start of the Patagonia Adventure Race. I looked… Read the rest
By and by, Poe didn’t get better. She ate less and less through the weekend and I felt both helpless and hopeless to make her well again. After asking around, I found out about a veterinarian in town, loaded my sick bird into in my bike basket, and pedaled off…… Read the rest
More than 100 elephants are killed every day by poachers.
Tomorrow, nations from across the globe will meet at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar to consider permitting one-off sales of stockpiled ivory. Both Tanzania and Zambia have proposed selling their ivory stocks despite… Read the rest
What better way to recover from the Patagonia Expedition Race, than a little alpine climbing? At least that was the idea. (Don’t worry, the race report, videos, and images are all coming!!!)
One thing that I forgot was that South American countries are large. Very large. The bus ride from… Read the rest
We’ve been busy over at Kamchatka Project HQ dialing in logistics for our expedition, learning more about our destination, and organizing an awesome fundraising party that will hit Portland a few weeks from now.
