“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
General John Stark
Ha! If penguins could fly you would be so in trouble! They don't like people saying they run with them when they don't.
Kinda like biker gangs only completely different. "Never trust an emperor penguin in a leather jacket!" Al Gore...or maybe not
Ding, ding, ding.....This just in.....we have a winner.
Alaska’s champion recluse seems to be St. Matthew, which sits alone in the Bering Sea without road, airstrip, or town. The closest village is Mekoryuk, on Nunivak Island off the Yukon River delta. St. Matthew’s nearest neighbor is 209 miles away. Biologist Brian Lawhead spent a few months studying seabirds on St. Matthew Island in the mid-1980s. He remembered a few long rides to reach the island, one in a Grumman Goose from Bethel and another by chartered boat from Dutch Harbor, 400 miles away.
“I remember sitting there and realizing how far the nearest land was,” he said from his Fairbanks office, where he works as a senior biologist for Alaska Biological Research. “The island is all tundra, not as lush as the Aleutians, with lots of seabird cliffs. It’s a beautiful place.”
There are actually three possible locations with each listed on a map. Enjoy.
From your Minister of Science.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF16/1670.html
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“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
General John Stark
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“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
General John Stark
“Out of the million square miles of basin, range, peaks and prairies that compose the interior West, the farthest it’s possible to be from a road is a trifling 28 miles.” from the pages of Hawk’s Rest, a book by Gary Ferguson about a wilderness outpost in Yellowstone National Park:
Rick, that quote from the article you linked, is refering to "the Thoroughfare" region of Yellowstone and surrounding Wilderness area. It is just south of Yellowstone Lake. It is a very remote area that I have visited many times. One time I was in the area for a week- and saw over 100 people! All of 'em on horseback. Horsepacking outfitters work that area over. It is amazing how many people you can find in such a remote spot!
That area is also famous for its grizzly bear density. Alot of the bad bears of Yellowstone are relocated to that area. So, you will see alot of bears when you visit there
Yellowstone? Not unless they moved it to northern Alaska. They could have. I've been holed up in a bear den all winter.
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2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
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Well no wonder ND doesn't want to come back on here. I'm starting to think the same way. My information stinks, I stink and, well, frankly I'm (sniff) a bit upset about the whole thing.
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Aw, now I've gone and hurt Ricks feelings.........Shruggs
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Here's a 52 minute long video about Heimo that I watched yesterday. VBS.TV video. Worth watching.
http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/heimo-s-a...full-length--2
“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
General John Stark
I just watched that too. They had a shorter version on CNN.
I just finished reading the book yesterday! Heimo sounds like a great fellar. I wonder if he's back in the bush trapping, or if he's living in Fairbanks. It would be neat if we could get him to join up here and discuss his experiences
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