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  1. 06-14-2016, 02:13 AM #161
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    I'm home. Had a great time, a really exciting, great time. Anyways, here's some pictures and stuff hahhaha.

    We went up to visit my friends on the Yukon River first. The Taylor Hwy is only open in the summer. It takes 3 hours to go the 100 miles from Chicken to Eagle. It rained...

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    There were still plenty of blocks of ice left over from break up on the shore.
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    We had to stop and check on their fish wheel which they are planning some modifications for this year.
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    This is the trail from the river up to their house. We were also bringing in a load of lumber. I was sitting in the back of their little atv machine so could really only video behind us to Ben (one of their guides who helps run dog sledding expeditions during the winter) who was bringing more lumber. I couldn't video the really bad parts of the trail because I had to hold on.


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    Midnight in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
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    Drying salmon to feed the dog teams throughout the year.
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    This might be the last Chickenstock ever. It was their 10th anniversary. I've been to the last 8.

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    They were about to run out of beer so had some flown in.
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    As we were leaving we stopped by the airport to say goodbye to a friend who had flown in. We brought him a pork chop for breakfast and he set it on his cowling while we were saying goodbye. The wind gusted and flipped the paper plate away leaving the pork chop on the plane. Aw the majic of Chickenstock.

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  3. 06-14-2016, 07:30 AM #163
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    You know you are in Alaska when the beer is flown in.

    Great pics. Love the chicken outfits.
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    So, I guess that last picture is..........wait for it..........pork chops on the fly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    You know you are in Alaska when the beer is flown in.

    Great pics. Love the chicken outfits.
    For real....Right?

    Hey we are out of beer.....Want to run and get some?
    It's 300 miles.....
    Yeah, I know, I'll hurry.....plane is gassed up.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by hunter63 View Post
    For real....Right?

    Hey we are out of beer.....Want to run and get some?
    It's 300 miles.....
    Yeah, I know, I'll hurry.....plane is gassed up.....
    I'll buy, you fly...
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    Hey! Batman!

    ...I wanna see someone on Alone build a fishwheel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grizz123 View Post
    I'll buy, you fly...

    Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
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  9. 06-18-2016, 10:11 PM #169
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    Heh, got invited to go flying in the pork chop...
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    Take your PSK.......
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    Well looks like I went and got myself a boyfriend (see pork chop above). Be watching for ariel photos sometime when both our work schedules work out lol.
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    Congrats.........
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    You're dating a pork chop?! Oh, I get it. That's great! Amazing what life offers, huh? Good for you.
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    Well, Congrats......

    Anyone that flies for beer can't be all bad....
    Just be careful when he says, "Here, hold my beer and Watch THIS"
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    Quote Originally Posted by hunter63 View Post
    Well, Congrats......

    Anyone that flies for beer can't be all bad....
    Just be careful when he says, "Here, hold my beer and Watch THIS"
    Hahhaha. Good one.

    Thanks.
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    OooOOoh weeee...What's that teasing rhyme about two people in a tree? uh-huh.
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    Lol. Well it has been a long while since I've climbed any trees...
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    Yeah.....Kinda good to have some one to argue with, sometimes.......Good on you.
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    Stranded on the Yukon

    The temperature plummeted to 50 below zero the morning Sonja Woodman climbed in Polack Joe's 18-foot boat in Eagle, Alaska. She was headed home to an A-frame cabin 120 miles away near the confluence of the Yukon and Charley Rivers. It was early November in 1975, and up until then the mighty Yukon had been running wide open while rosehips froze at night and thawed by day. That morning, ice chunks started flooding out of the tributaries, rushing past low-hanging yellow leaves and swirling their way downstream. The further they got, the more ice-choked the river became, and it started to build up on the sides of the hull. "Polack Joe" Hajec, a local gold miner and trapper, kept one hand on the outboard tiller while he handed her a wooden oar and told her to start beating the ice off the boat.
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    Don't know if I wanna read the rest of that...makes me shiver already.

    Fish poisoning...man, it's always something. Can't a person even fish without something happening?
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