Exploring the World's Last Great Temperate Rainforests.

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

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...

Preparing for the Queets (again)
This coming July, I aim to head back into (quite possibly) my favorite place in the world... the dripping wet Queets Rainforest of Olympic National Park's west side. This area has been beaten down badly by storms of the past two years, and I'll be curious to see how it's changed in that time. My goal of the trip is to reach Service Falls, that curiously remote cascade that's eluded me twice before. This time around, I'm bringing a small band of competent friends, rappelling gear (to deal with the vertical basalt cliffs surrounding the Queets Canyon), and packrafting gear to manage the depths of the river. We aim to walk away with one high-resolution image of that waterfall, something I've struggled and failed to do twice before. (If you're curious, previous trip reports are posted on my 2004 and 2005 pages.)

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,