I'm leaving Monday and am packing no food other than salt and pepper. I'll be on the coast of SE Alaska. I won't be hunting until each of the various seasons open.
Before hunting season opens it will be mostly fishing, crabbing and berry picking with some other misc. plants mixed in for variety.
Anyway, the planning is done and it's time to get out there. You can check out my plans and gear list and [b][u]find a link to my journal here[/u][/b]. I should be able to get data coverage in certain areas to update my journal. Please check it out!
What part of SE? Good luck. Weather has sucked so far this year.
Mostly if not all Admiralty Island, Calvin. When I did my Alaska traverse the old Eskimos said it was the rainiest summer in their memory, so I wouldn't be surprised to get record rains when I'm there. Whereabouts are you? I am out of my ecosystem down there so there will be a learning curve, I'm sure.
I'm dropping my son and his buddy off at Olivers Inlet on Sunday. They are going to paddle down Seymour Canal, do the Mole Hrbr to Mitchell Bay portage and paddle back to town. I think they're trying to do it in a week. Andrew's got reddish hair and a reddish beard (in case you run into them).
Buck thank god I got to post before you left. Do not consider going into the woods without a cAse of Tabasco. Kills bacteria, tastes great, good for you and I had raw clams with Tabasco last week and would have made a great last meal. I would take coffee too, oh and medicinal scotch. Instead of salt and pepper, lemon Pepper for all the rockfish. Great trip, have fun!
Deerwhacker444, I'll keep you in mind for the rifle.
Rovering, thanks. Maybe it will ease the envy when you look at the local weather reports!
MuskegMan, I'll keep an eye out for your son. It's a small world sometimes.
Whiptail, If I asked him, Marty would probably have flown me down, but that would be an unfair distance to ask of a pilot friend.
Thanks tacgnut, Boarmaste123, high_country, Lonny, Raeford, poboy, APDDSN0864 and EricM!
2ndwind, yeah, the pizzas and cheeseburgers and chocolate will be hard to not think about!
sollybug, all good thoughts, thanks! I'll probably stick with my current list. For the most part I have no trouble doing without some of the luxuries if I know they are completely out of reach. That's what I'm saying now, anyway!
ROMAC, good thinking.
Steelhead, there's a reason I chose that area.
Gungeek and J23. A few thousand hours of overtime helped buy me the time and cash for this trip. I do appreciate the opportunity regardless.
I'm home! I managed to live exclusively "off the land" (I brought no food other than salt and pepper) from June 30 to September 8. I think I can honestly call it an adventure.
Thanks for sharing that experience , it s great to hear it the way it happened for you without the gloss. My adventures pale in comparison, the spirit of it is the same.
If you can't get 'fat' along the SE Alaska coast during the summer, you're doing something VERY wrong......
It's funny how different the world looks when you're actually out there and you have to walk and paddle for miles a day, when the fish aren't biting and your crap trap is empty, you're waiting for deer season to open and the berries aren't ripe yet.
Awesome adventure and thanks for sharing it. I do a lot of canning at home, but would have never thought of packing a pressure canner along like you did. Looks like it made very good use of the resources you were able to kill/catch/gather along the entire trip.
Again, very jealous of your being able to take this adventure.
If you can't get 'fat' along the SE Alaska coast during the summer, you're doing something VERY wrong......
It's funny how different the world looks when you're actually out there and you have to walk and paddle for miles a day, when the fish aren't biting and your crap trap is empty, you're waiting for deer season to open and the berries aren't ripe yet.
Not many fat people on a pure subsistence diet.
I would presume that you are talking Following the existing laws while Steelhead is any game anywhere anytime,not moving camp every 2 weeks or so,haveing a power boat, chainsaw to cut wood [[or a slave to do for him]].
I would have thought that a prawn trap or 2 would have provided a change of diet and welcome feast . great trip will get a book or 2 .
Norm, I think you're right, a prawn trap would have been very nice to have. The trouble was is I had to draw the line on how much stuff to take, and there were tough decisions because it was in an unfamiliar environment for me.
If I were to do it over again I'd cut back on some gear and add other gear based on lessons learned.
Norm, I think you're right, a prawn trap would have been very nice to have. The trouble was is I had to draw the line on how much stuff to take, and there were tough decisions because it was in an unfamiliar environment for me.
If I were to do it over again I'd cut back on some gear and add other gear based on lessons learned.
yup good old 20-20 but we all seam to learn more by experiance than by listening to them that's BTDT. takes a lot of jam [balls] to go it alone .
Just finished the book, could hardly put it down, awesome read!!! Thoroughly enjoyed it and made me more than a little jealous for the adventure. It definitely makes you feel like you are there.
Thanks Dryfly. It was a trip I'd been dreaming about for decades. It's fun to hunt and fish "for a living." The challenge is when in the berries aren't ripe and the fish aren't running!
I'm leaving Monday and am packing no food other than salt and pepper. I'll be on the coast of SE Alaska. I won't be hunting until each of the various seasons open.
Before hunting season opens it will be mostly fishing, crabbing and berry picking with some other misc. plants mixed in for variety.
Anyway, the planning is done and it's time to get out there. You can check out my plans and gear list and [b][u]find a link to my journal here[/u][/b]. I should be able to get data coverage in certain areas to update my journal. Please check it out!
Carolyn already has a 90 mile route more or less planned for when we move up...
Jeff
The Brooks Range, or some other area? It will be an adventure regardless, no doubt.
Actually can't recall the range, off the top of my head, but somewhat more or less from Ft Greely to somewhere between Sawmill Creek and Tok. She says its just starters. LOL.
I"m pretty sure we'll just do it on no timeline, and as long as the food is there, the time it takes won't matter. For us it will be grand no matter.
Maybe Alaska range/granite mountains to start with. I'd have to look.
Great adventure Buck. I bought your book and read your journal. It inspired me to give " My Cove " a try . So we traveled to the island in August of 2016. That portion of Admiralty is a Bounty Horn for sure. We had silver salmon and Crab a few nights while we explored the area. It was the first time I sampled goose tongue that was an interesting experience. Did you meet the old sourdough that lived on the hill above the Lodge? Thanks for the inspiration Buck...
Awesome Buck! I enjoyed the two videos you made years ago, and knew some Wildland guys that worked with you over the years when I lived up there. Full of envy for these adventures you've undertaken.
Awesome Buck! I enjoyed the two videos you made years ago, and knew some Wildland guys that worked with you over the years when I lived up there. Full of envy for these adventures you've undertaken.
Thanks AlaskaCub! I know you've been out there in the backcountry a lot, too.
One day when I was halibut fishing a guy was cruising the shore in a boat. He swung over and talked to me. Said he was scouting for deer and lived a few miles away. I bet that was him.
Whereabouts are you? I am out of my ecosystem down there so there will be a learning curve, I'm sure.
