Dimensions Weekly Mens Lifestyle Magazine

If you add up the days, Josh Thomas and National Geographic television associate producer J.J. Kelley have spent a year of their lives together trekking through land and water.

That includes the five months they spent on the Appalachian Trail, where they first met 400 miles into what each of them thought would be a solo hike.

In 2006, with mountain bikes and cameras in tow, they headed to Alaska for their second adventure: a 1200-mile bike ride from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic, out of which came Pedal to the Midnight Sun, their first documentary film.

Their second film, Paddle to Seattle, tells the story of their most recent journey: 96 days spent paddling from Skagway to Seattle through the Inside Passage in sea kayaks that they crafted by hand from pygmy wooden kits.

The film is currently screening at film festivals, and Paddler magazine dubbed it the best feature film about paddling produced in the last decade.

It has won the 2009 Port Townsend Film Festival Audience Award and took home the Best Documentary prize at the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival last week.

It's screening in January at the Anchorage Film Festival, and screened at National Geographic headquarters in Washington D.C. on February 16th, 2010.  

-DW | Travel

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