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Keynote Speaker
"Reflections from
a Hard Seat"
An Evening with
Jill Fredston
Jill Fredston has spent decades predicting avalanches,
triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive,
and leading rescue efforts in Alaska.
 Then every summer she climbs into an ocean-going rowing shell
and heads out on long journeys in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. With her husband, Doug Fesler,
in a small boat of his own, she has rowed the equivalent of the circumference of the
earth - more than 25,000 miles along the coast of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen,
and Norway. Jill is the author of Rowing to Latitude: Journeys
along the Arctic's Edge
which won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award, and
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches. With
Fesler, she co-wrote Snow Sense: A Guide to
Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard. A professional
speaker, she specializes in discussing strategies
for dealing with uncertainty and change, managing
risks in high stakes environments, and
decision-making. Jill and Doug are co-directors of Alaska Mountain
Safety Center Inc., a non-profit organization they
founded in 1986. They make their home in the
Chugach Mountains above Anchorage.
 In
Reflections from a Hard Seat, Jill Fredston
will look back at years of rowing along the exposed
coastlines and share strategies for weighing risks
and making good decisions; insights often gained as
a result of making poor decisions. She will also
celebrate extraordinary moments of glide and the
grace of wild places.
Please join us to hear this
popular and inspiring speaker on
Saturday, May 24 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Islands & Ocean Visitor Center
on the Sterling Highway in Homer. Following the presentation, Ms. Fredston
will be available to sign copies of her books Rowing to Latitude and
Snowstruck, which will be on sale at the Visitor Center.
Admission is $8, students and seniors $5. To see what the Homer News has to say about the K-Bay
SeaFest,
click here.
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