Kayaking and Hiking

Spent a couple days paddling and hiking. The main goal of this trip was to retrieve 3 cameras that I had previously set in a place that is impractical to check regularly because of weather and sea conditions, and to find a safer place to set them before the fall storms hit.

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On the way back to Ketchikan, I reset the 3 cameras I retrieved near the shoreline closer to home.

This camera looks down a main trail where a few smaller trails cross it.

This camera watches over a place where 2 trails cross a creek.

This small area of dark woods is crisscrossed with trails. There isn’t much food here for deer, but it looks like they travel through and bed in this area.

Looking for deer while checking and setting cameras

This camera is on a bear trail, and is set for video. If it were aimed a little higher, it wouldn’t cut off the heads of the bear as they scent mark the big cedar tree.

These two cameras have both been in the same locations for a couple of years. The first one is on a trail leading to a salmon stream, which is full of fish now. The second one is set on an intersection of two trails in the timber.

Set a camera under these trees that border a muskeg. Two trails meet here, and another crosses them behind the large tree.