Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Wish me luck on the 40 mile!

Congrats on the bou. Hunting was much better before the 2004 fire season. Went to the ridge and I left my camera and 20 gallons of gas in the back of my truck. No issues.

Then the fires happened, forestry went in with dozers and made the trail into a highway.

Awesome! Nice velvet and a cool dark hide.
Bou burgers are in your future! Jealous.

Super cool!! Bucket list for sure!!!

That second picture reminds me of the Eureka parking lot just past the lodge, only there's about 20 times more rigs/trailers/campers parked there during hunting season. Congrats on the good eats!!

I once flew over the parking lot at Eureka during moose season. Like you say, dozens of rigs and a bunch of wheelers and buggys headed down the trail towards Monument. Funny part was that about a half a mile in from the parking lot and less than 100 yards off the trail there was a 60” ish bull and three cows laying in some brush on top of a little rise overlooking all the traffic going by them oblivious.

I've see the parking lot at Eureka Lodge/Café packed with 30 or 40 caribou milling around between the parked vehicles. Back in the 70's they would run the State snow plows 24/7/365 just to keep the highway clear of dead caribou. There were so many large trucks hauling everything for building the "Pipeline". The truckers would sometimes have to chain-up in the summer, as the guts from caribou and millions of smashed snowshoe hares was so thick they could not get up some of the hills with heavy loads.

I was there driving in the 70s. Your last sentence is a bit of a tall story don't you think?

Pretty much par on his course...

Lives about mile 8 on the Hope road, yet claims to only go to town once a year... hyperbole is his middle name.

Who where you diving for......Which company.......???

I talk to more than a few truckers every day of the week, and have for the last 16 years, and I've never heard any BS like that.

Well......are most of those truckers in their 80's or 90's......or "Not Exactly"......???

Do they need to be? Because..."math."

If they were hiring children, which there were not. To drive 18 or 22 wheelers with new Cat D 9 and D 10's Tractors type heavy equipment. Lets say a driver who today is 63 y/o and still a card carrying Teamster. 49 years ago was 14 years old.........I don't think WEAVER BROS. TRUCKING was hiring 14 years olds.

OK.....lets try the Company was willing to hire a man 29 years old back then.....he would be 77 or 78 years old today and still driving "Long Haul".

Oh.

Perhaps Incredible stories get passed to others and “get around” rather than exist in a vacuum to be released once every couple generations. But, I’m just “guessing”.

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was established in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain the pipeline.

U.S. Senate passed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act on July 17, 1973

The pipeline project involved some 70,000 workers from 1969 through 1977

They started in 71' hauling to build roads and pad for camps, mobilizing heavy earth moving equipment, and setting up Whore Houses trailer all along the line.

You guys are "mean"... ???
Congrats Dan!

Some dig holes and never recognize bottom.

Since you want to toss names around, like Weaver Bros. I can get in on that. Jimmy Doyle, who owns Weaver Bros and has since the late 70's still comes in and visits. I'll be sure to ask him his opinion on your BS story. Or should I ask Harry Mcdonald, you know, the former owner of that little trucking company called Carlile. You probably saw them on that BS drama show "Ice road Truckers" And yes, quite a few of the old time drivers I've been dealing with over my career have passed on, but many still stop in to talk shop and see what the kids are driving these days.


Go ahead, keep digging your hole deeper and deeper.