RichardParker

There’s old tales of people on the Yukon and other pets of the interior with dogs and mules, and the mosquitoes are so bad they literally drained the animals dry within a matter of weeks. They are legit accounts from prospectors, hunters, fishermen etc.

The Alaska triangle is real. Like it was mentioned earlier though the triangle is within a lot of the travel corridor. Make no bones about it though, AK will kill you with the quickness. Bear, moose, cold, the water usually rough and with crazy high tidal movement.

All that being said it’s an incredible place. Varied landscapes and people from all over. A nice summer on the peninsula, or down in Homer where I am at, is really hard to beat. Salmon, Halibut, Rockfish, berry picking. The hiking and camping is unmatched. You will feel alone like you’ve never felt, and in a lot of instances only drive a half hour to do it. If that.

Come for a summer and fall in love

fricked. God bless ‘em. That’s a hard watch. Prolly doesn’t even begin to paint a big picture. Really em really sucks.

Definitely been scared shitless on Kodiak and Afognak cleaning up deer carcasses as fast as possible. Those bears hear rifle shots and run in that direction.
When we went bear viewing a couple summers ago, we didn’t see anything like this for sure, but the guide said about the same thing, they’ll get a charge like that or two every year. The brownies seemed much more concerned with each other and the fish than us, by a long shot.

Yeah both of those teams lost too

Ptarmigan is good eating too.

The SeaLife Center is actually really awesome to visit, even for adults. If y’all are ever in Seward you should stop in. That’s cool they saved the lil guy, he’s quite a ways from where he oughta be.

Homer resident here! It’s pretty beautiful up thisaway. Were they stayin across the bay? That’s pretty cool, small world.

Hope is freaking gorgeous, I go there a few times every summer. Good stuff for sure. But there are clear signs warning about the mud flats. Gotta be a shite way to go. The whole turnagain arm is dangerous like that.

IWHI

Bengals and Bandits on Old Perkins has some good stuff.

Ha I have a first edition set of those books I found at a yard sale up here in AK. Homesteading is/was real popular. Got it for a song too. Lots of interesting info in those books.