Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage

Audrey Sutherland paddled a nine-foot inflatable kayak up the Inside Passage from Ketchikan, alone, in her sixties, in summer after summer until she’d done the whole eight hundred and fifty miles. No support, no motor, food she’d dehydrated herself, camping on beaches, reading tide tables and weather off the water. She kept a rule about going alone: Go simple, go solo, go now. The book is her journals and her own watercolors, and the practical detail is exact enough to plan by. She was still doing it at eighty.