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.
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.
Our current Journey through Alaska's Coal and our recent Journey on the Wild Coast are summarized below. 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.
Across tundra home to caribou, grizzly bears and wolves, over sedimentary hills with protruding layers of coal, and down meandering rivers cut through banks of permafrost... Why would anyone choose to spend well over a month trekking across remote parts of Alaska with a 1 1/2 year old in tow? We want to connect the dots - between vast quantities of coal beneath Alaska's wilderness, the exploding economies of Asia that would eagerly burn Alaska's coal, and dramatic impacts of climate change. We're planning expeditions to the major pieces of Alaska coal country -- at the Chuitna prospect on Cook Inlet, the area around Usibelli Mine, and the vast deposits in the Arctic. These journeys will be the first stage of a 3-part series that will take us to Asia, and back to the melting glaciers of the Lost Coast.
Read the expedition overview, check for the latest on the blog and in our press releases, or read background on Alaska coal.
