Ground Truth Trekking

Writing

Blog

Updates on journeys, essays on the issues, and a mix of anything else we feel like putting on there.

Book

A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft, and Ski. Book by Erin McKittrick on our year-long human powered journey from Seattle to the Aleutians

Magazine Articles

A Long Trek Home photoessay in Wend Magazine, summer 2009 - by Erin McKittrick.

Reflections on Glacier Bay - by Erin McKittrick.  also from the Wild Coast journey, originally published in National Parks Magazine, winter 2010

Proposed Mine Endangers Bristol Bay - by Erin McKittrick.  from the Alaska Wilderness League Newsletter, February 2007, page 6.

Site of the Proposed Pebble Mine - by Erin McKittrick.  A photo essay on my 2005 trip to the Pebble Mine site in Environment News Service. Or read it on my page

Technical Reports

Bretwood Higman's 2008 report on seismic hazard assessment at the site of the proposed Pebble Mine

Bretwood Higman's 2010 report on potential active faults in the Lake Iliamna area, near the site of the proposed Pebble Mine

Essays

Reconsidering the "Value" of Gold - by David Coil, October 2010.

Where Threatened Waters Flow - by Erin McKittrick.  an essay on our 2006 journey through the watersheds downstream of the proposed Pebble Mine.

The Dead and the Dying - by Erin McKittrick.  a short romp through dying glaciers in 2009

Lost Forests on the Lost Coast - by Erin McKittrick.  blog post from an expedition to logging's aftermath

The Fruits of Insanity - by Erin McKittrick.  A February odyssey in the Kenai Fjords.

And read trip journals from over a dozen older trips on our old AK Trekking website.