Inside Passage
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Sep 14, 2026
Gregory ScruggsGUEST
Gorgeous.
Gregory ScruggsGUEST
Way up on the Inside Passage.
Gregory ScruggsGUEST
I mean, cruise ships leaving Seattle going to Alaska are increasingly stopping there, going on whale watching tours and grizzly bear safaris, that sort of thing.
Gregory ScruggsGUEST
And if you do take a cruise up to Alaska and stop in Prince Rupert, you'll notice they have a container terminal, a port facility where those big cargo ships coming across the Pacific can load and unload containers.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And for a little bit of background there, my wife and I have a boat.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And every single summer, we go up the Inside Passage from Washington State up to Southeast Alaska through coastal British Columbia.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
It's a spectacular trip.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
We love it.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And then we boat around Southeast Alaska for a big chunk of the summer.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And then we come back down the Inside Passage.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
passage to get home and we've actually now we lead groups of boats up there and sort of help them navigate the inside passage and so forth and one summer we were going to explore a particularly remote area off the coast of Chichagof Island which is almost uninhabited and the coast of it is extremely wild there's no civilization there are no houses there's no infrastructure it's just Hundreds and hundreds of tiny islands out in the Gulf of Alaska and the North Pacific Ocean.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And we were headed out there and we stopped into a tiny village called Pelican.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
But for 7 or 10 days, with all the gear you need, you, you need more space.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
And so when I decided I was gonna do the Inside Passage, um, the first thing I decided or realized was that my boat wasn't suitable.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
And so I, I realized I had to upgrade my boat and I had to upgrade a, a handful of other pieces of gear, 'cause by then I was already a, a fairly skilled kayaker.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
By the time I made to do that decision, I had already done, um, a NOLS course as a student and had an idea of long distance travel in a kayak.
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Brett FriedmanGUEST
Um, but this trip was done by a, a woman that I teach with or did teach with at the time, who is an avid cyclist.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
Um, and she and I worked on the plan, and then she executed the plan.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
And the third trip that we, uh, highlighted was my Inside Passage trip, was planning a month-long expedition style unsupported trip, right? So we did all the planning and executed this weekend on the Appalachian Trail.
Brett FriedmanGUEST
We started on April 9th and hiked the trail for three days, and I, I didn't take an actual head count, but I'd be willing to bet that we were leapfrogging back and forth with 45 thru-hikers.
Tail DraggerHOST
Part of the answer is terrain knowledge of a depth that is almost impossible to describe to someone who has not flown the same routes hundreds of times.
Tail DraggerHOST
He had crossed the Alaska Range and the Wrangell Mountains and the coastal corridors of the Inside Passage so many times that the landscape had become interior geography, as familiar as a neighborhood.
Tail DraggerHOST
He knew which valley offered a corridor through the range and which one closed in on you with no exit.
Tail DraggerHOST
He knew where the terrain gave him clearance and where it did not.
Tail DraggerHOST
January 5, 1943.
Tail DraggerHOST
Gillum departed Seattle with five passengers aboard the Electra, bound north for Anchorage.
Tail DraggerHOST
The route took him through southeastern Alaska, that narrow corridor of island and inlet and spruce-covered mountain that threads north along the inside passage.
Tail DraggerHOST
It is among the most beautiful country you will ever see from altitude.
Elizabeth NewcampHOST
Like there was wifi, but only when we were back at the cabin, which was not very much.
Elizabeth NewcampHOST
And then we got on a very small boat with, you know, less than 80 total people and sailed through the inside passage where the, the big ships go.
Elizabeth NewcampHOST
But we just would pull over into these little, um, uh fjords and get out and hike and kayak and again no wi-fi uh this is the same the company we were with uncruise is the same company that rescued those people that uh the zuckerberg yacht refused to rescue the no we were not on that one but uncruise was the line that did it this small um company that does this.
Elizabeth NewcampHOST
And there was just something about being...
Len TestaHOST
And speaking of DCL, Brian, one of our listeners, wrote in after last week's question about which ports the upcoming DCL ships can fit into.
Len TestaHOST
And he said the new class of ships is small enough to do the inside passage in Alaska as well, which is probably a bigger factor than which ports they can dock at.
Len TestaHOST
So that's a very good point.
Len TestaHOST
Excellent point.
Carol WilliamsAUDIENCE
Well, we didn't have sunny weather.
Carol WilliamsAUDIENCE
It was July, but you get to go in the Inside Passage.
Carol WilliamsAUDIENCE
Incredible description and tours all along.
Carol WilliamsAUDIENCE
Actually, more on the tour that we had in Prince Rupert.
Kelton ReidHOST
The timelines coil, the intrigues mount, but it's Kevin C. Morris' vivid evocation of Alaska's savage beauty that truly shines.
Kelton ReidHOST
Kevin spends his summers navigating the inside passage to Southeast Alaska, a rugged landscape that fuels both his adventures and his fiction.
Kelton ReidHOST
In this file, Kevin, Melina, and I discussed...
Kelton ReidHOST
The story behind the Radioville mystery that inspired the book, how the novel was won at auction after multiple rewrites, why his agent found his original query kind of awful and how he recovered, where Morse code became a part of the plot and the structure of the novel, the wildness and beauty of the Alaskan coast as a character, and a lot more.
Kelton ReidHOST
And we were... honored to get a an advanced copy and it's a beautiful cover um and as i'm looking at the cover now and kind of glancing at your um photography like on instagram and then um also this uh youtube channel with some beautiful beautiful scenic coastal um byways uh it seems to all make sense now
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
Yeah, my wife and I travel southeast Alaska by boat every summer.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
At the beginning of the summer, we actually lead groups of boats up the Inside Passage and help them find their way up to southeast Alaska and show them a lot of the highlights and exploring and so forth.
Kevin C. MorrisGUEST
And it's a place that we certainly love, and I hope that comes through in the book.
TinsleyHOST
I forget what it is.
TinsleyHOST
The Northwest, the Inside Passage and all
Jack YeagerGUEST
that.
Jack YeagerGUEST
So I'm in Seattle for a while.
Jack YeagerGUEST
So I went back outside.
Jack YeagerGUEST
So they were serious about not entering their country during COVID.
TinsleyHOST
Could you get into the inside passage?
Jack YeagerGUEST
No, I could not.
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