Well put. Been “up there” and the procurement, maintenance, and upkeep are indeed challenging.
Not to mention the weather challenges.
One of my biggest regrets was toward the end of a caribou and black bear hunt on the upper reaches of the Kuskokwim in ‘92. We were in brown bear or grizzlies every day. The outfitter who had tags would have allowed my friend and I one at $3-4K each at that time. We were actually watching a grizzly about four hundred yards from camp as he said it. We declined.
Now, they are four to five times as much.
