Contributer - Jon Turk
By admin, on October 20th, 2011
Jon Turk
Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971, but left academia to kayak across the North Pacific and around Cape Horn, mountain bike through the Gobi desert, make first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island, and first ski descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia.
His two-year kayak passage across the North Pacific Rim was named by Paddler Magazine as one of the ten greatest sea kayaking expeditions of all times.
Jon chronicles his adventures in a trilogy of three books: Cold Oceans, In The Wake of the Jomon, and most recently, The Raven’s Gift, which explores our spiritual connectivity to nature and ourselves.
His most recent adventure involved the completion of the first circumnavigation of Canada’s Ellesmere Island. He and Erik Boomer walked, paddled and skied the 1485 mile route from May to August, 2011.
Jon spends his winters playing in the powder and makes Fernie BC his base with wife Nina MacLean.
By Jon Turk In my last post, I introduced the work of the Canadian Avalanche Center with a focus on the South Rockies Field Techs, Dave Tracz and Gord Ohm. On Jan 26, I decided to go out with Read More →
By Jon Turk A month ago, I was in a trailhead parking lot, loading my snowmobile after ski touring. Gord walked over. “So, what are you doing tomorrow, Jon?” “I gotta work.” Gord laughed. “Oh really? So did you Read More →
by Jon Turk Over the Holiday season, a sequence of storm pulses brought much needed snow – and two avalanche fatalities – to British Columbia. On Thursday, Dec 29, a 30 year old pro-patroller from Whistler was killed by Read More →
By Jon Turk Babushka (Grandmother) Daria Moolynaut was born in a reindeer skin tent on the tundra in northeast Siberia about 107 years ago, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II. Her father was a reindeer herder; her mother Read More →
by Jon Turk Recently, I was asked to give a talk at the high school in Darby, Montana, at the epicenter of one of the most politically right wing, tea party activist populations in the United States. “Oh Boy,” Read More →
Every year, National Geographic nominates ten individuals or teams for the “Adventurer of the Year”. There are skiers and riders, of course, and always a Himalayan climber or two. But then the list goes Gonzo and you never know Read More →
by Jon Turk You can work all your life, retire, and go to the beach — or you can go to the beach. It’s a saying we had back there in those freewheeling days of the sixties, oh, so Read More →
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