Sea Kayaker/adventurer
Where do you call home?
Stone Ridge, NY
Oldest piece of MH product:
WindStopper Tech Jacket from 1999 and still wearing it.
What Mountain Hardwear gear are you wearing now?
It's the middle of the Indian Ocean ...Mountainwear shorts and t-shirt.
What is your favorite pre-outing "pump-up" music?
The Allman Brothers (We're talking marathon-length kayaking here, not short adrenalin-soaked spurts, so we need looooong songs)
What is your favorite meal in the outdoors? Willing to share the recipe?
Fish burgers...though dependent on the sea, which fish differs.
Is there one thing you always take with you on your adventures?
Rubber Crocodile Talisman.
Who/What is your inspiration?
Great writers, starting with Jack London - Who after getting famous for his Yukon stories, took the seas in a ship he built in San Francisco, called "The Snark."
Is there one thing you always take with you on your adventures?
Rubber Crocodile Talisman.
Nickname:?
Old Salty, Bow Wow, Cabro Viejo... (all from my knucklehead teammates).
Favorite Quote?
I love having written." (Anonymous)
Career Highlights:
Deciding, in 1999, to seakayak around the world — one continent at a time — and now actually almost having pulled it off! I'm a big admirer of people who actually do what they say they are going to do - both in the outdoor world and elsewhere.
Recent Activities:
High-def Film about Antarctica "Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent." Another film to look forward to is Two Others about the relationship between man and the sea in the Galapagos and Louisiana.
Bio:
Writer and filmmaker, author of eight books, six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. My Oceans 8 Project—sea kayaking around the world, one continent at a time studying the health of the seas and the lives of people who depend on them — is windingdown. We've completed seven of eight expeditions with only antarctica to go (january 2008).
Website: http://www.jonbowermaster.com/