Exploring the World's Last Great Temperate Rainforests.

Overlooking Power Creek.
Overlooking Power Creek - SE Alaska's Coastal Chugach Range, July 2006


Veil of Mosses Welcome to Rainforest Treks. This site briefly documents my greatest personal passion... exploring (first-hand) some of the last great "wet" places on earth. Unsatisfied with guidebooks or second-hand stories, I experience such places with my own legs & senses, often with no trails to guide the way. Speed is not my aim. I choose to take my time, probing deeply into the tapestry of North America's greatest remaining forests, and (in some way) help preserve a land I've grown to deeply know and love. I hope to never stop. Take a look inside, and let me show you why...

Back from the Queets!
Twice before, in 2004 and 2005, I bushwhacked up the tractless Queets Valley in search of Service Falls; a large, remote waterfall that's rarely ever been photographed. Twice I failed. Service Falls This August (3-12th), I went back... better prepared, better equipped, and fully determined to reach the falls, locked deep in a rainforest canyon of vertical black basalt walls and thundering rapids.

It took a lot of work, and I lost a lot of skin, but I made it. I've only just returned home, and am working on getting pictures and a story printed up, but in the meantime I am happy to have accomplished my goal. I found and photographed Service Falls. A story is not yet available, but in the meantime, pictures can be found from the journey at the Service Falls Expedition Gallery.

Journey of the Spirit Bear
Journey of the Spirit Bear

In the meantime, another large trek is under way. In July 2009, three men will traverse the interior of Princess Royal Island in British Columbia's northern Great Bear Rainforest. Three weeks on one of the most remote and uninhabited islands in the world, discovering a world rarely seen by others and trekking among the home of the famed white Spirit Bear of native lore. Details of the journey are just coming together. Read about it on the Journey of the Spirit Bear. It's already shaping up to be a fantastic journey.


As always, feel free to contact me anytime.

In the meantime, Happy Exploring, and perhaps some day we'll meet under a damp green canopy,