Among The Ice
- On August 15, 2013
- By Randall Tate
- In Camping, Sea Kayaking
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Glacier Bay National Park is a 600,000 acre playground encompassing water, ice, rock and forest. It is also the site of the fastest documented glacier recession in human history. Because of this, the land and sea are in a constant state of change. As you cruise from the head of the bay into the arms, you are in essence seeing what the land looked like further back in time. You can stand amongst old growth temperate rainforest where just 250 years ago in the same spot, an immense glacier scoured the earth.
For two summers I have guided people into some of the furthest reaches of Glacier Bay. Every time I slid my kayak back onto the boat or stepped off the shore, I had to fight the urge to just stay. It is a wild, untouched place that is incredibly hard to access. No roads connect the park to the rest of the world. In that sense, working on a boat has incredible benefits. We were dropped off deep inside the park boundary and paddled for seven heavenly days into the East Arm, a section of the park that sees few visitors. It was a wonderful journey and at last…we were able to just stay.

Seven days of food in three small bearproof cans

A humpback whale surfaces just 100 yards from our kayaks

The mother ship arrives to pick us up
Apostle Islands
- On September 24, 2008
- By Randall Tate
- In Camping, Sea Kayaking, Trips
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Sea kayaking in the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior.
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