November/December Meeting: Paddling the Inside Passage to Alaska

Guest speaker Susan Conrad, long distance kayaker and award-winning author, will share her story of a physical and emotional journey through an alluring, perilous, and healing seascape. In spring 2010, with her world scaled down to an 18-foot sea kayak and the 1,200-mile ribbon of water known as the Inside Passage, Susan launched a journey of the sea and soul that took her both northward to Alaska, and inward, as she discovered the depths of her own strength and courage. She paddled marathon distances for weeks on end, forged friendships with quirky people in the strangest of places, and pretended not to be intimidated by 700-pound grizzly bears and 40-ton whales. Learn more about this amazing and inspiring paddler at https://www.susanmarieconrad.com/