At home, which is really just a base camp when you consider they spend roughly seven or eight months each year outside, the Jardines sleep on the floor.
PADDLER magazine, Jan/Feb 2000, features this 5-page ARTICLE by Ethan Bellamy, highlighting Ray & Jenny's adventurous lifestyle.
Jardine 1999
"A successful trip has certain characteristics. Chief among them
is finding the inner strength to meet the challenge of unforeseen events and being able to overcome them."
Ray & Jenny Jardine's 1999 Arctic Adventure Story by Keith Ridler The Bend Bulletin
October 21, 1999
"We see Ray and Jenny in a long line of U.S. based wilderness thinkers and philosophers - Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey etc. We view them as immensely important and they were right at the top of our list for this second series of Wilderness Walks."
The BBC Wilderness Walks series with host Cameron NcNeish featuring guests Ray and Jenny Jardine. With a behind-the-scenes film crew of seven, Ray and Jenny embark upon a week long hike through the beautiful Three Sister's Wilderness of Oregon. Along the way they share their wilderness philosophies, detail some of their light weight hiking and camping gear, and practice a few earth-connection skills.
BBC
Shown BBC2 20 November 1998
and BBC2 23 July 1999.
"When an intellect as big and unencumbered by conventional thinking as Jardine's is focused on a problem, the solution is going to be original, possibly even spectacular, and probably socially unacceptable."
"Ray and Jenny Jardine were tranquilly paddling their two-person kayak past boulder-sized chunks of ice in the Arctic Ocean when they noticed one of the pieces of ice was keeping pace with them."
"More miles under his boots
than most people have on their cars"
The Bend Bulletin
June 4, 1992
Newspaper article by Greg Bolt.
During their round-the-world sailing voyage, Jenny and Ray encountered a number of hurricanes. This article describes what happened to two of their cruising-couple friends. One couple perished by a stroke of bad luck, the other survived by a stroke of good luck.
