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On a lighter note, since no one died... Some years ago there was some big whoop-de-doo in Hope. Music festival or some such. Lots of clueless people poured in. There is a nice green, grassy ocean-side beach next to the mouth of Resurrection Creek. Great tent sites, eh?? It was taken advantage of... Most of the Hope residents were up on the bluff, watching the show when the Spring Tide rolled in.....  As to Will's post, I know of only one. Bill Miller was known to have kayaked from his home in Hope on good, calm high slack tides, over to Bird Point? to be picked up for appointments in Anchorage. A few times, anyway. I think he didn't do it much. He would do his business and catch another tide back when it was right. Or so I was told, but not by Bill. I believe they also used boats between The two shores during the gold rush years, but I could be wrong about that. 20-Mile just happens to be 20 miles from Sunrise? I have run around the head of TA in boats for years. I have been stuck and have had minor issues a number of times. Just understand the basic physics and do not do stupid things.
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A Good Read, Available at most Alaska libraries. Or Amazon.com currently has four copies. I say it is a good and educational read. But I am predacious having lived in Sunrise, Alaska much longer then any location.
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The Turnagain Arm Gold Rush of 1896, preceded the Klondike, changing the face of Alaska forever. Memories of Old Sunrise chronicles one man's experiences during that pivotal time in Alaska's history. In his own words, A. W. Jack Morgan tells of the triumphs, disappointments, and the adventures of miners who survived backbreaking labor, brutal winters, and mind-numbing isolation in the Last Frontier. With a cast of colorful characters, this autobiography brings back to life the bustling times of a bygone era.
https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Old-Sunrise-Alaskas-Turnagain/dp/146757760X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LQ224A2TVTY7&keywords=Memories+of+Old+Sunrise&qid=1684824261&s=books&sprefix=memories+of+old+sunrise%2Cstripbooks%2C1482&sr=1-1
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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That is a good book, and there's a picture of my doppelganger in it.
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That is a good book, and there's a picture of my doppelganger in it. They can fix that surgically, you know...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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That is a good book, and there's a picture of my doppelganger in it. Can you describe what he looks like?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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That is a good book, and there's a picture of my doppelganger in it. Can you describe what he looks like? Just look in your mirror... duh! 
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Too bad for the guy in the photo. 😳
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That is a good book, and there's a picture of my doppelganger in it. Can you describe what he looks like? Just look in your mirror... duh! I am not nearly as handsome as Chris.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Drowning is a bitch. I drowned as a kid, got revived. Nothing "peaceful" about it. My 1st cousin who was like my brother didn't make it from the drowning. That's why Indian women have so many fkn babies.......ur gonna loose some of them river boys.
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I can only imagine emergency personnel, friends, and family saying goodbye as the tide comes in. You'd have a little bit of time to pray alone, if you could focus.........
Pretty sad stuff......
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Sad, so very sad.
Rest in peace, young man.
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Isn’t there someone list there nearly every year? Or at least quite often?
There are many terrible ways to die in AK as well as many other places. But AK seems to have Murphy’s Law on the top ten read quite often.
Bob
Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Drowning is a bitch. I drowned as a kid, got revived. Nothing "peaceful" about it. My 1st cousin who was like my brother didn't make it from the drowning.......... I'm sorry you lost your cousin, and am glad you came back. I almost drowned once. Drove through the ice and rode the truck to the bottom of the lake. Took a while to get out of the cab. It wasn't "peaceful", in fact it was overwhelming panic, but when I accepted the fact that I wasn't going to make it, a calming feeling of wonder and surprise filled me. Immediately afterwards I got the door open and swam up to the hole I'd created in the ice. Alaskan winter air is the sweetest air on Earth. Delicious. And every breath of it is a gift from God.
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Isn’t there someone list there nearly every year? Or at least quite often?
There are many terrible ways to die in AK as well as many other places. But AK seems to have Murphy’s Law on the top ten read quite often. Drownings in general are common but it’s been a long time since the last one like this. Usually several rescues a year from the mud flats - but not fatalities.
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being eaten alive by a grizzly bear like Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard did .
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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Isn’t there someone list there nearly every year? Or at least quite often?
There are many terrible ways to die in AK as well as many other places. But AK seems to have Murphy’s Law on the top ten read quite often. Drownings in general are common but it’s been a long time since the last one like this. Usually several rescues a year from the mud flats - but not fatalities. I read it's been about 20 years since the last mud flat fatality. Also that the guy pulled in half was at the next low tide body recovery, not at the rescue attempt. Somewhere else is also claiming a pulled-in-half happened in that locale. Keep in mind it is "journalism". Facts get bent, legends are invented, moved, etc . Stay off the fuggin mud!
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I heard the story of the rescue attempting to get the guy out of the mud only to pull him in half when I was in-processing at Elmendorf in 2011. I have experienced the mid first hand in Fish Creek while dip netting it a few years back. I only got on foot stuck and was close to the bank that I finally got out, but it was not fun. Drowning from being stuck in the mud flats is not a way I want to go.
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I think everyone has heard the story.
Just like the hundreds of mean problem brown bears that got dropped on on Montague in the 70s and 80s.
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So do you guys have tips on how to avoid such areas?
I saw kids messing around in Coal Bay by Homer and it looked like the mud your talking about.
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Stay the hell off it! Much like avalanche areas.
Darwinism at work, both.
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