A short, permitted stay. Not a claim.
Expedition 40 is a private ten-day wilderness trip planned for September 2027 in Washington State or coastal western Canada. The group is small: about ten adults. The work on the land is camp work— primitive shelter-build, securing water, and fishing. We are asking for legal temporary use only. We are not asking to own the land, occupy it, or keep a standing right to return.
September 2027
Ten days in the field. The exact dates stay unset until a site is secured and the owner’s written permission is in hand.
Washington or coastal western Canada
Remote enough to feel like wilderness. Candidate country includes remote Washington, Vancouver Island, coastal British Columbia, private islands, and legally authorized lake or shoreline land.
About ten people
A small group of friends. Not a public event, not a festival, not spectators. Everyone in the party camps, works, and leaves together.
Primitive, temporary builds
Teams would build primitive shelters from materials the owner allows. These are field structures for the ten days—not cabins, not foundations, not a lodge.
Water, then fishing
Secure drinking water. Fish where it is legal and the owner allows it. Fires for cooking and warmth. Anything beyond that—timber use, traps, hunting—only if the written permission says so.
Temporary use. Not a claim.
We do not want title, a lease that outlives the trip, a road, or a standing camp. Permission would be for a defined stay. When the stay ends, so does the use.
Reference photograph via Wikimedia Commons: Geotek (public domain). Example build—not a proposed site.
When we leave, we put it back.
We restore the site to the best of our ability when we leave. That is not a courtesy written for this page. It is already a rule of the expedition.
Ten people will have been there. We cannot honestly promise the ground will look untouched. We can promise the work of putting it back, and that we will not treat that work as optional.
Intent, stated plainly.
The site is not secured yet. Rights to camp, build primitive shelters, take water, and fish still have to be negotiated for a specific property, in writing. This page is so a landowner can see the plan and the promise without wading through the rest of the expedition.