So last season I drove up to the Brooks Range but didn’t punch my tag.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed the drive I told myself I wouldn’t drive up again because it put 10,450 miles on my truck.
However I have been struck again with the desire to do another float trip but on a different river...
Droughts and fires have existed as far back as recorded history goes and beyond. Everything is blamed on climate change and I'm sick of that drumbeat.
Shark attacks have increased and they blame it on climate change. They don't explain how but it fits their agenda. SMH
Also, when flying with the empty MSR fuel bottles, make sure that there is zero smell of fuel in it, otherwise TSA will confiscate it. I wash it out with boiling water multiple times, preferably soapy boiling water, then leave the cap off and pack it like that.
No fuel canisters and precious little of anything else. Don't expect any stores. Back on my first trip to Adak in 2014 there was "End of the Chain Mercantile" but it closed after that visit. Tiny businesses come and go, don't expect anything. Best to take an MSR stove that runs on gasoline.
I can't do that because once you open that carton you must consume it all within a few days, otherwise it will acquire a flavor of the freezer.
Better but more expensive are the small individual servings.
In the past Japanese used glass fishing floats and for decades they have floated around the Pacific and the currents deposit most of them along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands.
On Izembek Refuge I found an amber colored float which you don't see very often, and on St. Paul Island we...
I have the Caribou in hunter green. Only used one day in Alaska.
I’d sell it for $750 shipped.
I’m too old now to be backpacking out heavy loads of meat and gear.
I’m gravitating more to bird hunting, they’re easier to pack out.
I noticed that too, however, this past season I shot a duck and picked it up immediately and it was stiff like rigor mortis. This actually happened twice last season.