Adventures wouldn’t be possible without the right transport and this week we’ve got some non-traditional approaches including a story by a climber who gets creative when stuck on a forest service road due to an impassable landslide and a row boater who wants to enter a seventy mile boating event very uncertain if it would be possible to complete using the 170 pound boat he built himself.


Adventure Storytellers: Jeremy Park, Bill Wessinger
From: Seattle, WA & Portland, OR


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This week's featured adventure stories

Jeremy Park's Adventure Story:
Climbing in the Bugaboos

Photo c/o Jeremy Park. This is how he always looks.

Jeremy Park

• Climber
• Board Member of Washington Climber's Coalition​

We regularly hear stories at Boldly Went about near misses while in the field, but Jeremy's story is different because the climbing trip itself seemed to go well.  It was everything that happened afterwards that made it strangely memorable... getting stranded by a landslide, a car wrapped in chicken wire, a lucky helicopter ride, and one unbelievable key swap.

I can't imagine the same turn of events ever coming together so perfectly in one storyline as it did for Jeremy.

How to Rodent Proof Your Car When Parking Overnight At A Trailhead

From West Kootenay Hiking Blog. Click to read.

Jeremy talks about seeing cars parked at the trailhead wrapped in chicken wire. Marmots, porcupines and some other rodents have been known to chew through radiator hoses and electrical wires. Until recently, the recommended practice by the US Forest Service when you were leaving your car at a trail head and heading out to the backcountry for days was to wrap your car in chicken wire.

Now, recommendations to wrap your car seem to only exist in some areas where high rodent activity is known.

• Canada is still recommending the use of chicken wire, and even provides reusable rolls at trailheads.
  
• The preferred method in the U.S. seems to be driving over a tarp and wrapping your car.  

Learn more:

• Sequoia & Kings Canyon
• Kokanee National Park.
• Check out this blog from West Kootenay Hiking.

Bugaboo Provincial Park, B.C.

• Southeast British Columbia
• Purcell Mountains
• Popular climbing destination
• Many peaks over 3,000 meters in elevation
• Offer awe inspiring mountain and glacier terrain with airy, glacier-sculpted granite spires.
• Visit Bugaboo Provincial Park website to learn more.

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Bill Wessinger's Adventure Story:
Row Boating Seventy48

• Sixth generation Portlander...that’s pretty amazing because that must mean his fore parents are very near, or could actually be Portland’s original settlers.
• Learned to love the outdoors from an early age, in part from his grandparents who loved mountaineering and who were active with Oregon Nature Conservancy.
• Woodworker who uses sustainable sources to build custom wooden furniture and sculpture, along with building the occasional boat. Like, for example, the boat he built for himself and used during Seventy48.​​

Bill Wessinger of Wessinger Woodworks paddling his row boat in Seventy48

Bill's Adventure Quote

Lightweight sailing or rowing boats are a great way to access quiet corners of Puget Sound that are otherwise difficult to reach. ~Bill Wessinger, row boater in Seventy48 of Wessinger Woodworks

Seventy 48

• A non-motorized, non-wind powered boat race from Tacoma to Port Townsend, Washington.
• Participants are tasked with going seventy miles in 48 hours on their preferred vessel.
• Go to Boldly Went Coverage from the first ever Seventy48 in 2018. 
• Visit the official Seventy48 Website and consider entering! 
• Bill finished in 27 hours and 50 minutes arriving in Port Townsend at 9:20 p.m.
  
• This earned him 72nd place out of 102 teams that finished and 117 that started.
  
• Bill thinks his boat was the heaviest used by a single person team.
  

Bill Wessinger's Row Boat, "Muskrat"

• Bill built the row boat he paddled in Seventy48 four years earlier.
• The row boat is made mostly out of marine plywood and douglas fir.
• He carefully chose the building plans  to make sure that the row boat would be able to fit through a basement window. Yes, he built it in his basement!
• His row boat, Muskrat
  • 16 feet long
  • 4 and a half feet wide
  • 150 pounds
  • A bit of a struggle to fit through his basement window!
  • Design is the Shearwater by Joel White
    
  • Bill tweaked some of the design details on how the interior is fitted out. 
    

​Wessinger Woodworks

Bill is now a full time word worker and has a workshop with easier access. So he is no longer confined to working from his basement!
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He's available to build boats or anything else for anyone who is interested.

Find him at Wessinger Woodworks in Portland, OR. ​

• http://www.wessingerwoodworks.com/
• Instagram: @wessinger_woodworks
• Facebook: Wessinger Woodworks, LLC

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