Erin McKittrick and Hig McKittrick present Mudflats and Fish Camps: 800 Miles around Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Seldovia-based outdoor adventure author Erin McKittrick discusses her new book. is Mudflats and Fish Camps: 800 Miles around Alaska’s Cook Inlet. It is published by Mountaineers Books. Erin McKittrick is the acclaimed author of A Long Trek Home. With her husband Hig, a geologist, and their two young children, she paddled and hiked the 800 miles around the Cook Inlet in a 3.5-month period. In Mudflats and Fish Camps, she writes about their adventures, the history of the inlet, the culture of the area, and their observation and experiences with wildlife. Erin McKittrick has a master’s degree in molecular and cellular biology, writes regularly for Alaska Dispatch News. In 2007, she and Hig founded Ground Truth Trekking, a nonprofit organization that combines “ground truth” with “researched truth,” using science and adventure to further the conversation about Alaska’s environmental issues.