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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
Day 5 started off with light rain and dense fog. I spent most of the morning feeding the stove in the teepee to finish drying out my wet clothes. By late morning the fog was burning off and we started packing up for anther day on the water. While we were packing the visibility was improving and... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
We started day 4 with high hopes that we would get our gear delivered and be able to start our float down the river. The weather was looking somewhat promising, but the air transporter said that it was fogged in on their side of the mountains. At about noon a couple of us began to haul some of... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
Day 3 was supposed to be the day our packrafts and other gear arrived, but the weather was still a bit iffy. The air transporter wanted a local weather report every couple hours to see if they could sneak a plane in over the pass. We thought that this made for a good excuse to stick around camp... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
Day 2 started off in the clouds. The Brooks Range is not known for its nice weather, but it sucked us in the previous day with some fantastic weather. We had about 17-18 miles to hike this day to get to where the float plane was planning to meet us the next day. It drizzled on us pretty much the... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
We woke up early and loaded all six of us and the dog in one truck to head back south over the pass to begin our first day of hiking. We had a big day planned with numerous river crossings, two passes to climb and about 12 off trail miles to cover. After the river ford we hiked about 1/2 a mile... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
While planning our Brooks Range trip we decided that if we could find a reasonable rate on a gear drop, we would have an air transporter fly some of our gear out to where we would start the floating portion of our trip. I found a service that could do it for us when we need it and for a decent... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
Our next stop was Fairbanks to pick up a couple more people at the airport and begin our trip up to the Brooks Range for a 12 day, 160 mile trip through Gates of the Arctic NP and a packraft float out onto the north slope. Lots more to come, but Im taking a break to go see if anything is using... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
Once we made it back across the border into the main part of Alaska we decided to spend a few days doing a backpack caribou and ptarmigan hunt. We hiked in about 6 miles our first afternoon and found a spot with good visibility, a bit of wind protection and nearby water. Just as we got our tents... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
For day 2, we decided to fish and look for bears doing the same then get a late start on the rest of the way north. This river is known for a great pink and chum salmon run and lots of bears taking advantage of it. We made our way down some bear trails though thick brush to a fishing hole that a... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
After drying out some gear that ended up a bit waterlogged from the previous nights misadventure, we headed up to the top of a terrible road to do some high alpine hiking. View from the drive up The view from where we parked the trucks After an abnormally nice day up in the... -
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Go North, young man (or not so young man)
I just got home a few days ago from a 6 week trip up to Alaska. After first experiencing the state while working there during the summer of 2015 (https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/alaska-pictures.265113/), I decided that I would take every opportunity presented to return. The same group of... -
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The Cliffs of Seduction
Great goat Gerald! Wish I could have been there to help on that pack out.- theat
- Post #117
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Ukraine / Russia
Not much for specifics, but I did find the last paragraph about how much the US gave to our allies during WW2 through the lend lease program interesting. Dam glad that our leadership at that time realized that isolationism wasn't a good long term international strategy. Scary to consider where...- theat
- Post #3,350
- Forum: Money and Finances
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One less Cabinet Yaak Bear.
Of course I do. Read what I wrote again, it says "near sheep habitat". -
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One less Cabinet Yaak Bear.
Nope, nothing illegal about it currently no matter what the motive was. Some old posts discussing the those instances for your reading pleasure. Coincidence or not, but both of these "ranchers" are also outfitters... -
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One less Cabinet Yaak Bear.
After seeing the impact hobby farmers have had on some wild sheep populations in MT, I'd vote to make them illegal near sheep habitat in a heartbeat. There have even been couple cases of people bringing in diseased domestics to intentionally harm wild sheep herds to "get back" at FWP for some... -
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Dall sheep hunting on Federal public lands in Brooks Range closed thru 2024
I'll be hiking and pack rafting around 150 miles through that area in a few weeks. I've spoken with some locals, transporters and park rangers and every one of them said that the sheep populations are way down. Most attribute it to several bad winters and weather events over the past handful of...- theat
- Post #22
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Helicopter pilot
Figuring out how to shoot a net gun accurately can be a bit tricky. It’s a bit like shooting a shot gun from the hip. There is a lot going on that you have to keep in mind. How fast we are flying, how far away from the animal we are, how fast the animal is running, the angle we are intersecting...- theat
- Post #28
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Helicopter pilot
I'm not a pilot, but I have worked with helicopters for about 15 years. I've worked with them in wildfire, spraying, surveying the Canadian/US border with the State Department, and finally doing wildlife capture work. On many of the jobs I was making more money than the pilots. Most of the...- theat
- Post #19
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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The ambiguity of theft and failure of enforcement
Those incidents happened under two different sheriffs. The current sheriff is not running in this years election. Had 9 guys running for the office in the primary, with many holding some pretty extreme positions of not enforcing federal or state laws that they didn't agree with. This county has...- theat
- Post #88
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
