Traditional Longbow, April 4-5, 2009

  

 

At the Cascade Mountain Man Rendezvous three weeks earlier (March 14, 2009), I met a traditional longbow maker called "Coffee Pot." I picked out a handsome shank and contracted Coffee Pot to make me a bow. On this day, FiddleHead and I journeyed over to the Olympic Peninsula to an area north of Poulsbo, WA to take possession of the new longbow.   Saturday, April 4, 2009   Approaching FiddleHead's condo in the Old Bellevue section of downtown Bellevue...             Driving across Lake Washington to the ferry terminal in downtown Seattle...                           Crossing Puget Sound on the ferry, from Seattle to Bainbridge Island...                                   Bainbridge Island, Agate Passage, and the Olympic Peninsula...               Chief Seattle's grave...                           Three weeks earlier at the Mountain Man Rendezvous, Coffee Pot loaned me this book, to be returned when I picked up the new bow...     Approaching Coffee Pot's lodge...         FiddleHead and Coffee Pot, and my new longbow...               Down to Poulsbo, WA...                             We made camp outside of Poulsbo.       Sunday, April 5   We drove south from Poulsbo, through Silverdale and on down to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...                   Click here for pictures from a Tacoma Narrows trip in May of 2001.     Through Tacoma...         And back up to Bellevue...