well the trip went off with a great couple of weeks....ended a little bizarre but I will get to that later.
to say it was remote is an understatement.
from anchorage it was a 2 hour commercial flight to bethel, bethel has no roads in or out, the only way in is by plane or week long barge.
everything comes in on barge and fuel is about 10 bucks a gallon, booze is 7 times that (if you can find it)
the first thing you notice was the skeeters, I have fought fires all over alaska but have never seen them this bad, you had to clean the killer every 12 hours
we got to the lodge and started the weigh ins and getting the planes loaded
we loaded the float planes and geared up for the hour+ flight to boundary lake
boundary lake is basically the highest lake that the planes can land on. from this point it was the unload spot.
took a hour or so to build the rafts, drop them down to the river and gear up
top half of the float was alot of Dolly varden greyling and two foot rainbows. once we got to some good pools there was a handfull of bright silvers
mostly the weather was pretty good but we got snow one morning and a few thunderstorms that sneak in quick
ran into a few bears but they are very quiet and sneaky, these are the normal size prints you see when wandering into the bush to drop a deuce
bug tents were a must for a camp kitchen
we ran short on booze and tobacco so we had a air drop
at the bottom of the trip we were slamming the silvers and kings
everyday was 50-70 fish days, I broke 3 poles during the trip. all were broken on fish retrievals
once at the pick up point we packed up the gear and had a 1.5 hour boat ride back to the lodge
the whole spew of locations are here. every check in was a overnight camp site, some were multiple nights
once I left alaska I had a one day and 8 hours of driving to get to red bluff for the opening day of dove season. I got to the ranch and had an hour of sleep before the sunrise hunt. had a couple birds in the bag and then did a face dive on my shotgun. woke up 30 min later in the ER.
apparently I had bleeding internally for the last week or so (started in alaska)and simply dropped. took on 3 IV's and a couple units of blood. spent 5 hours in the ER getting the oil change and was able to hit the evening hunt and kill my limit for the next couple days
taking it easy for a week or so before I head to yellowstone to move bison on horseback and do some more hunting/fishing. good thing I didnt crump in alaska, otherwise I probably would have died. good trip though
to say it was remote is an understatement.
from anchorage it was a 2 hour commercial flight to bethel, bethel has no roads in or out, the only way in is by plane or week long barge.
everything comes in on barge and fuel is about 10 bucks a gallon, booze is 7 times that (if you can find it)
the first thing you notice was the skeeters, I have fought fires all over alaska but have never seen them this bad, you had to clean the killer every 12 hours
we got to the lodge and started the weigh ins and getting the planes loaded
we loaded the float planes and geared up for the hour+ flight to boundary lake
boundary lake is basically the highest lake that the planes can land on. from this point it was the unload spot.
took a hour or so to build the rafts, drop them down to the river and gear up
top half of the float was alot of Dolly varden greyling and two foot rainbows. once we got to some good pools there was a handfull of bright silvers
mostly the weather was pretty good but we got snow one morning and a few thunderstorms that sneak in quick
ran into a few bears but they are very quiet and sneaky, these are the normal size prints you see when wandering into the bush to drop a deuce
bug tents were a must for a camp kitchen
we ran short on booze and tobacco so we had a air drop
at the bottom of the trip we were slamming the silvers and kings
everyday was 50-70 fish days, I broke 3 poles during the trip. all were broken on fish retrievals
once at the pick up point we packed up the gear and had a 1.5 hour boat ride back to the lodge
the whole spew of locations are here. every check in was a overnight camp site, some were multiple nights
once I left alaska I had a one day and 8 hours of driving to get to red bluff for the opening day of dove season. I got to the ranch and had an hour of sleep before the sunrise hunt. had a couple birds in the bag and then did a face dive on my shotgun. woke up 30 min later in the ER.
apparently I had bleeding internally for the last week or so (started in alaska)and simply dropped. took on 3 IV's and a couple units of blood. spent 5 hours in the ER getting the oil change and was able to hit the evening hunt and kill my limit for the next couple days
taking it easy for a week or so before I head to yellowstone to move bison on horseback and do some more hunting/fishing. good thing I didnt crump in alaska, otherwise I probably would have died. good trip though
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