Ned rozell biography

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He received a permit from Alyeska Pipeline Service Company just days before his departure. For the next four months Ned Rozell forded steams, climbed mountains, avoided bears, braved swarms of mosquitoes and met a diverse and quirky series of individuals who had property near the pipeline corridor. His sturdy Labrador Retriever Jane joined him on the journey.

Periodically, friends and family would join the pair and walk a section of the mile hike. His trek was captured at first in a series of columns and later in a book called, appropriately enough, Walking My Dog Jane. In when that trek occurred, Ned was In the intervening years he married Kristen and they have a 10 year old daughter named Anna.

By all rights, Ned should be a comfortably settled middle-ager negotiating nothing more demanding than a recliner. Instead, earlier this month he took off to retrace his path up Alaska, this time joined by a new canine companion, 3-year old Cora, a Lab-heeler mix. Kristen and Anna are also planning to share some miles with the pair.

I spoke with Ned before he left.