Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Made it to Alaska!

Wife and I rolled in last Saturday after a long week's drive up from Dallas (we left Texas behind in our dust, ready for a brand new adventure ).

Renting a place for now, something low maintenance (hopefully) so we can spend most of our time exploring the state and enjoying life outside. Start researching how to go about hunting here, probably a bit different from Texas, albeit on a non-res license for now

If my boss lets me stay here (he really wants me in Atlanta), we'll be looking a little later this year for a property to purchase. I keep getting an itch to just buy one of these plots of land people have up for sale, just to call my own little getaway, use it for weekend escapes, hunting camp, something along those lines. But we'll see about that once we've been here a bit.

See ya around!

I figure in about 2 years you can buy anything you want at your price!

Congrats! You're going to love it.

sorry to have to correct you so early.. but "outside" when you are in Alaska means, anywhere else other than Alaska.


suggestion: put in for the Denali Road lottery right away (it is open only in May to enter, for September pass to drive in using your own vehicle... enjoy. I had 6 great years up there!!

Noted

I was actually just talking with one of the ladies at the realtor about the lottery, sounds like that would be pretty cool to be able to drive that far in. Right now, with the weather and the buses not running yet, they've opened the road up to mile 30. So we'll probably give that a run as well in the meantime.

Today is moving in day though, thankfully we just have what fit in our cars, should be a relatively short ordeal.

dang, you are 4 years and 7 months ahead of us.... have fun!

Left Texas in the dust? I thought you were from Dallas. Sure ain't no dust at this time.
A winter will tell if you stay. Not the cold, just the short daylight. If you are not an outside person in the winter you will have a hard time.

thast probably why carolyn at a minimum will have to come home like a snowbird for a few months every winter...

I'm staying the first year. I just hope we can adapt to it. There certainly is no other place like it that I"ve ever been.

Bugs are one thing. Lots of dark is the other thing. I think I can deal with cold. Plus that should be an ideal time to load ammo etc....

Yup, I think Dallas is mud and squishy grass right now with all the rain that came through just as we left.

We caught some of the short days when we visited back in January, but yeah, a full winter will definitely decide it.

What do you guys like to do in winter to get out of the house? Thankfully I am off work at 1pm, so that should give me a little time before dark.

Where abouts did you relocate to? I'll be rolling into the Homer area later this month.

Wasilla for now. Kind of middle ground, smaller town (than Anchorage anyway), but still has everything we need. Also easy access to get north or south to all parts of the state relatively quickly.

Now that we're here, have some place to live for the next 12 months, we'll be keeping an eye on properties, prices, economy, all that fun stuff. And trying to convince my boss he doesn't really need me in Atlanta

Close ...closer....now..….Drive 1 hour north or east ....ahhh , there it is ...Alaska.….beers to ya

relatively quickly becomes an interesting term in alaska.

my brother-in-law lived up there for a few years, here in upstate ny an hour drive for dinner isn't bad. my brother-in-law said there were days he would take a road trip for dinner, 3 hours each way generally had a hike or something thrown in to justify the exploration but he would hear about a good place and go for it

Wasilla is way to big for our tastes, but then again its still close to Alaska. LOL. Great scenery around as is most places in AK. Just have to look up a bit. And many marshes filled with ducks, moose all over etc...

Enjoy, we see Wasilla for a few hours or more every fall to visit great friends we consider family. Will be so nice to be able to drive over and spend a weekend or more with them now and again in about 4 years and 7 months.

Enjoy!

I'm thinking you're gonna be a bit 'surprised'

I fully expect to be.

I don't know your wife from Adam, but I wish you luck with it. I've seen many a people 'fail' after the first winter.


Damn near anyplace can seem groovy for 3 weeks

She will have a problem with it. Thats why she will snowbird it for a few months of the winter time back at home.

Unless it works better for her.

Just having the desire to do it, does not make it such that all will be fine.

In a perfect world I'd live in Alaska March, April, May, August, September, October and leave before Thanksgiving.

Yep, that wouldn't be bad.

I'm good easily through thanksgiving. But I'll be coming back some in December to hunt here. Though I"d like to hunt blacktails there in December.

I'm thinking whenever she decides to head south I wont' see her until March again is my guess.

I"m fairly sure I could be good year round.

But like the answer to the question, would you shoot someone attacking you or invading your car or house? I like to think I know that answer, but in the end, you won't know unless you have to.

I notice that June and July are out. Tourists? Heat? Bugs? All of the above?