Ground Truth Trekking is based on the belief that expeditions to see what's on the ground help us learn about important issues. Our journeys have brought us across the state of Alaska as well as through parts of British Columbia and Washington, exploring natural resource issues along the way.
upcoming in fall 2011 - 2 months on the edge of Malaspina Glacier with two young kids, exploring climate change.
Life on Ice JourneyJust finished: In summer 2010, we set out on a series of expeditions across Alaska, our toddler and unborn child in tow. Early in the summer, two week-long journeys explored the future of coal in Alaska. A month-long expedition took us to the Northwest Arctic - exploring the Chukchi Sea at Toddler Speed.
Coming up: What would it be like to live on ice? In the fall of 2011 we will set out to spend two months living on the shifting, melting surface of North America's largest glacier, along with our two and a half year old and ten month old children. Trekking between a series of camps on the Malaspina Glacier, on Alaska's remote and harsh Lost Coast, we will explore this unique and wild landscape, weather the fall storms, and document climate change in action.
Also Ground Truth Trekking is supporting a two-month trip this Spring by Bjorn Olson and Kim McNett that will explore the issues surrounding the proposed Donlin Creek Gold Mine.
Other: Our most well-known trip is our year-long Journey on the Wild Coast, 4000 miles from Seattle to the Aleutians - now a movie coming out at the Anchorage Film Festival in December 2010! We also have pages for a number of other past Journeys.
From the Puget Sound to the Bering Sea: Four thousand miles along the edge of the Pacific, by foot, packraft, and skis. On this year-long journey we traveled from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands - solely by human power. This unprecedented expedition brought us through some of the most rugged terrain in the world, in some of its more difficult weather. Read more here, or in my book: A Long Trek Home.
Over cliffs covered with thousands of screaming birds, along the edge of long lagoons, over tundra hills in blazing fall colors, and through remote arctic villages... From mid-August to mid-September we trekked around 300 miles along the Chukchi Sea coast and the Noatak River, weathering a few storms along the way, and exploring everything from ancient villages, to eroding coastlines, to the Red Dog Mine.
Also check out the summer's earlier expeditions to the major pieces of Alaska coal country -- at the Chuitna prospect on Cook Inlet and the area around Usibelli Mine.
Read the ADN article on the journey, check for the latest on the blog, or read background on Alaska coal.
Read about the adventures here, learn more about the issues behind them, and see our photos and YouTube channel for more visuals. For those of you embarking on your own adventures, you may want to read about our gear and food choices here.
Twitter Updates:@GroundTruthTrek:Hazards of winter biking: Studded tires, check. Blizzard-proof parking spot, not so much. When I came back to... http://t.co/PWWhSmnk
@GroundTruthTrek:Cottonwood trees stand bare on a lonely frozen island in Malaspina Lake. This lake is now a lagoon, with the... http://t.co/gPMBHVfz
@GroundTruthTrek:Hig may well be the only person who's packrafted upstream underneath a glacier. Luckily it was slow and safe... http://t.co/4it9li6I
@GroundTruthTrek:Seattle folks: see Hig's talk tonight! http://t.co/ApKAWWwU
@GroundTruthTrek:"Life on Ice" - a lone tuft of moss in an otherwise barren part of Malaspina Glacier. http://t.co/pfNNiK05
