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Just received my copy of Wind and the Water by Lenora Huntly Conkle with Jim Rearden. Mine is signed by Mrs. Conkle in 1991.
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We'll be awaiting a review!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Just received my DVD from the Shebals. This Is My Alaska. Looking forward to a little time to sit and watch it.
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I think Ed was being generous.
I'm not cheap, I'm frugal.
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We might have to talk about the dvd, I tried to internet order it and found you have to call and have not made the time to do that yet...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Yes, by phone only. They are outside for the winter. They are in PA. I had to leave a message, but they called back.
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Through the first 6 chapters of the Conkle book by Rearden. The Conkles are some tough folks and are attacking Alaska with determination and a growing love.
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I think Ed was being generous. Thanks, Phil. I was trying to keep it a family-friendly post. Ed
"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell
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In regards to Chris Batin, I've enjoyed quite a few of his articles in Outdoor Life and also his book. I understand there is a literary license used by all authors so I appreciate the extra mile they go, to make a sometimes stale story exciting and enjoyable to read. I really liked his article entitled "Cub Killer" (I think that was the title.) in Outdoor Life years ago. -tnscouter
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I have told the story here before, but the abridged edition is Batten was caught on video by a friend of mine cutting my friend's young daughter's line when she hooked a king salmon.
POS is too kind... Sitka deer, I haven't heard the story before and was curious to the reasons behind Batin's actions. Is it cool for you to expound on that or is it better left alone? I'd like to hear about it. Thanks -tnscouter
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Friend was fishing in his boat, anchored in the Talkeetna River with his son and daughter, both young teens or a little less. They were in the hole before anyone else, it was still early.
Batten came in and anchored very close and immediately downstream of them... an azzhat tactic called "lowholing"... especially poor form as he had a boatload of charter customers and a big hole to choose a spot in.
Very quickly after Batten showed up the daughter hooked a good king and it did what they do and ran downstream. My friend was videotaping the whole time and looking through the camera.
The line almost immediately went slack... video review shows Batten pulling out a largish knife and cutting her line. The proof is very clear.
Just watching him in his presentations is painful... oh, and he is quite short...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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You might just want to search Amazon for books on Alaska, then look at all the entries.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1495307565?*Version*=1&*entries*=0
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Thanks RupertBear, I live on the Amazon website. Finished the Bud Conkle book by Rearden. I really enjoyed it. I have read the Heimo Korth's book, and a book on whaling and living on the North Slope in the 1930s and 40s I believe. Damn I can't remember the name of it. I need to check my little library. Yeah, I also read the book about the young man that lived in a bus near Mt. McKinley(Denali). He didn't survive.
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I gotta get Heimos book now after having seen them on the tube.... I hear the show is coming back and might be even better this time, even though last time didn't have as much crap drama as "non reality" shows generally do...
Working on Bear Man Of Admiralty Island right now since Carolyn just finished it.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Yeah, I also read the book about the young man that lived in a bus near Mt. McKinley(Denali). He didn't survive.
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Yeah, I also read the book about the young man that lived in a bus near Mt. McKinley(Denali). He didn't survive.
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer You are correct.
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The Krakauer book is a good read, but it's not a 'living and hunting in Alaska'book.
More like 'misguided hoofing and starving in Alaska'. But the lad had enthusiasm, I'll grant him that.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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Not a book...a blog, but a quick read on a first person detail that almost didn't get written: http://livingthedream-kathy.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-plunge.html
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Just remembered a very good read by Frederick Kent "Gene de Large." They built a cabin on Chandalar Lake and spent a month there every fall and the book is almost diary-like, but very well written.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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The book about Heimo is good, think you'll enjoy it Jeff, but it doesn't really do him justice, course if you saw him on tv??? Maybe you can glean some of what I mean
The guys a hoot and a very good outdoorsman
I really like nick Jan's early stuff when he still lived in ambler
He's a good writer and had interesting stories to tell
Then he moved to Juneau and went all bunny hugger
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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