Mudflats and Fish Camps: 800 Miles Around Alaska's Cook Inle

Mudflats and Fish Camps chronicles McKittrick's journey, along with her family, as they set out to hike and paddle the entire coastline of Cook Inlet, a distance of 800 miles. This is unconventional parenting in the extreme, bringing kids not just into the woods, but into quicksand, snow, and the realm of grizzlies! And while their story includes all the stubbornness, excitement, and sleet-in-the-eyes awfulness that comes from walking their way through the world, it also provides an intimate history of a wild and fascinating place and the people who call it home. Erin McKittrick, along with her husband Hig, has walked, paddled, and skied more than 8000 miles through Alaska's trackless wilderness, including a thousand miles with her two young children. McKittrick has a master's degree in molecular and cellular biology, writes regularly for the Alaska Dispatch News, and gives public presentations on her adventures and work whenever she travels. She and Hig founded an environmental nonprofit in 2007 called Ground Truth Trekking. The organization combines "ground truth" with "researched truth," using science and adventure to further the conversation about Alaska environmental issues.