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Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14487901 01/20/20
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 50,627 Anchorage, AK USA Sitka deer Campfire Kahuna
Sitka deer Campfire Kahuna Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 50,627 Anchorage, AK USA	Originally Posted by JeffA Originally Posted by Sitka deer Not kokanee... full-size fish with sea lice scars in moving water of the main stem of a fairly large river. I doubt the fish in your picture is a kokanee, too. Hummm, you're right, they are too big. The beaver dams that basically land-locked the lake waters we were fishing in might keep the smolt from getting out but they'd offer little challenge to the spawners that chose to jump them to get in....never thought about that..interesting. There are a number of winter red runs lacking official documentation... Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.

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Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14488040 01/20/20
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 4,317 Anchorage, AK C cwh2 Campfire Tracker
cwh2 Campfire Tracker C Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 4,317 Anchorage, AK	More wolverine pics please...

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska cwh2 #14488328 01/20/20
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743 JeffA OP Campfire Outfitter
OP JeffA Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743	Originally Posted by cwh2 More wolverine pics please... Oh for Pete's sake, here is one more...and it's not in the TikChiks... I'm very hesitant to post trapping photos. In the past, my stuff has been hijacked by greenies and used in anti-trapping efforts.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14488397 01/20/20
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 4,347 Alaska FishinHank Campfire Tracker
FishinHank Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 4,347 Alaska

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska FishinHank #14488435 01/20/20
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 4,347 Alaska FishinHank Campfire Tracker
FishinHank Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 4,347 Alaska	Regret selling this one. Wolverine on the stretcher was the one above.

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Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14488448 01/20/20
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 20,683 cold & forbidden 2legit2quit Campfire Ranger
2legit2quit Campfire Ranger Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 20,683 cold & forbidden	Jeff I recognized Dans boat & thought that might be Justin’s cabin. But he’s made major changes to the place even in the 90s. They now have 5 guest cabins plus the main dining cabin. Fishing bear was a place I didn’t hang out at much. Once or twice a season if that. Justin didn’t want my grocery gulpin azz anywhere near Darlene’s cooking for very long. I was always up at nishlik or floating the tikchik trying to find animals for the clients Speaking of the outfitter supplying spam I was gonna say that sounded like Justin & then recalled he wouldn’t be buying high priced spam. “ if you’re hungry go kill something “ 🙄😂 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.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14489089 01/21/20
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743 JeffA OP Campfire Outfitter
OP JeffA Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743	I want to add a video to this thread just so it's included with these stories. I recently posted it in another thread which most of you probably all ready viewed: https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/14465677/1 The thread is about some other mis-adventures in Alaska. The two men in the video are pretty tough guys, they have a blog that offers more details of their adventures. In the closing of the video he takes a moment to bust our balls for the winter trail not being recently used after they were told by the winter watchman at Tik Chik Narrows lodge it'd be their best route as they traveled through the area to find broken trail. This video may also become relevant if I continue writing in this thread. Life calls and I have some things that are going to keep me busy for a little while right now. But I have been wrapping my head around composing a story based on a winter trip we went on that was a little different. There was some good hunting and fishing involved as well as a few interesting characters. We had gone far above the Tikchiks for some end of the season Caribou, things got interesting. We got our fish and Caribou and also found the fastest possible route from Kogrukluk River, north of the Shotgun Hills (refer to map) to Harborview Medical Trauma Center in Seattle. Don't assume anything, you'd never guess what took place.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14489359 01/21/20
Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 2,381 Beaver Oregon N Nestucca Campfire Regular
Nestucca Campfire Regular N Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 2,381 Beaver Oregon	What a great thread this turned out to be. A thread of awesome stories and interaction with no typical campfire BS thanks for starting it Jeff. Tim

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14490388 01/21/20
Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,222 Misery R Rustyzipper Campfire Tracker
Rustyzipper Campfire Tracker R Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,222 Misery	Thanks for the thread guys. I'm too old and all the family within five miles of me except for one grand and great grand 79 miles away. I just don't want to live that far away. It would cost me a wife as well. I won't intentionally do that. Be Well and keep writing. Rustyzipper. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14490889 01/21/20
Joined: Aug 2016 Posts: 390 C ClearAirTurbulence Campfire Member
ClearAirTurbulence Campfire Member C Joined: Aug 2016 Posts: 390	Great thread Jeff. And others who contributed stories. I never get tired of these. Thanks. All things are always on the move simultaneously. - W.S. Churchill

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Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska ClearAirTurbulence #14491137 01/21/20
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5533 New Member 5 Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 15	JeffA did you ever know a guy named bo diddley trapped hunted and fished out of dillingham quite the character and a great guy! really was a mountain man!!

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14496825 01/23/20
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743 JeffA OP Campfire Outfitter
OP JeffA Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,743

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #14505801 01/25/20
Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 122 S sloone Campfire Member
sloone Campfire Member S Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 122	jeff.cant thank you enough for this thread.others as well.to be young again and know what I know now.alaska and the wild there would of been my goal.i know it could be extremely tough but also the peace and serenity and beauty is beyond compare.thanks again.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #15521324 12/13/20
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,575 AZ T Talus_in_Arizona Campfire Tracker
Talus_in_Arizona Campfire Tracker T Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,575 AZ	Originally Posted by JeffA Originally Posted by kid0917 My brother and I floated past Golden Horn years ago, we had been dropped off at the top of Kulik by Freshwater Adventures. We totally missed the salmon but caught some nice dollies and my best-ever grayling, I think it was 21 inches long. We ran across Justin Johns on the river, interesting guy. Saw a wolverine at the lower end of Kulik, and had moose eyeballing our camp the first morning. If you flew up there prior to 2013 you may have been in their Widgeon, there is a story about that plane that may interest you. That bad boy is still on the bottom of Tikchik Lake. It's always cool to get to see a Wolverine in the wild, it's not a common occurrence. I think they see a lot more of us than we see of them, they're pretty wiley. I've seen a few and trapped a few. I was going up the east side of the Agulapak River one morning and one came darting out from around that cabin by the top of the river. He ran down and started across lake Beverly, I couldn't believe it, what a fool. I had my AR with me and was always on the prowl for predators, getting a good hide here and there helped with the fuel budget. This sucker was mine, it's a long ways across that lake and his little short legs were going like crazy but he was no match for my snow machine, he was gonna die, he was all mine. I decided to screw with him a little bit and got up behind him as he scampered across the ice. I don't know what I was trying to do but at some point I was going to have to stop and shoot him, it wasn't like he was going to just turn around and throw his hands in the air and give himself up to me. I think he'd have kept running til he just ran himself out, no way he was making it to the other side of the lake. We were moving along at about 25 or 30 mph and I closed the gap and had him between my skis.. He didn't like that and it wasn't long til that sucker made a right hand turn and I hit him with one ski, my snow machine went azz over teakettle, it was on it's side with my leg under it and hadn't a clue as to where my AR had landed. I got to my feet pretty quick, shutting the machine off while looking for my AR and the now pizzed off Wolverine all at the same time. Once I got my schit together and had the AR back in my hands I was spinning in circles looking for the damn Wolverine. I never saw him again, Idunno how he got away so quickly as far out on the ice as we were but he was sure as hell gone. He could have had me for dinner if he wanted to. They say to never tease a Weasel, well don't tease Wolverines either, might as well add Wolves to the list, it's all those "W" animals...don't tease um....... Grins. There a good moral to this story hidden somewhere I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #15591659 12/31/20
Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 2,180 Alaska A AKPENDUDE Campfire Regular
AKPENDUDE Campfire Regular A Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 2,180 Alaska	Cool you get to see Dan’s cabin on the agulawok fly over.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #17437915 07/19/22
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 3,019 akasparky Campfire Tracker
akasparky Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 3,019	Time for a re-run, some pretty boring threads on the Fire as of late. Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex Originally Posted by renegade50 My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!! What are psychotic puppet hunters?

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #17440503 07/19/22
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 32,074 Kenai Peninsula, AK L las Campfire 'Bwana
las Campfire 'Bwana L Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 32,074 Kenai Peninsula, AK	In 54 years in Alaska, I've seen only one wolverine in the wild- fresh tracks a few times. Big bastard too, especially through 9X binocs at 40 feet or so. It stood up on it's hind legs to look back at me. It's whole attitude was, not, "Can I take him?". It was, "Do I want to take him?" One of my 3 best wildlife experiences. Gorgeous animal! Last edited by las; 07/19/22. The only true cost of having a dog is its death.

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska las #17477071 08/01/22
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 15,676 Fairbanksan in Aleutian Hell stevelyn Campfire Ranger
stevelyn Campfire Ranger Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 15,676 Fairbanksan in Aleutian Hell	Originally Posted by las In 54 years in Alaska, I've seen only one wolverine in the wild- fresh tracks a few times. Big bastard too, especially through 9X binocs at 40 feet or so. It stood up on it's hind legs to look back at me. It's whole attitude was, not, "Can I take him?". It was, "Do I want to take him?" One of my 3 best wildlife experiences. Gorgeous animal! I've actually seen several out here in AH. Between me and one of the guys I worked with we've gotten about a half-dozen between trapping and shooting. Folk I know up in the interior have spent entire lifetimes trapping and have never seen on in the wild that wasn't caught in a trap. I spend my first five years out here working nightshift and see three. The country is pretty open out this way. Not a lot to hide in compared to the forested and thick, brushy interior. Z

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska JeffA #17478665 08/02/22
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 29,836 Burns/Hines, Oregon, USA 1minute Campfire Ranger
1minute Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 29,836 Burns/Hines, Oregon, USA	That trapping looks to be a boatload of work. Nice gathering there. 1Minute

Re: White Privileged in Remote Alaska 1minute #17479226 08/02/22
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 8,485 The Wrong Side of the Tracks C cisco1 Campfire Outfitter
cisco1 Campfire Outfitter C Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 8,485 The Wrong Side of the Tracks	Just came across this thread ....great stories . Thanks Jeff

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