Getting set up on Yukon River

I’ve been gone a little over a week helping my sister establish beach head on her 216 acre land on the Yukon River. This is one of my back up bug out locations. It’s about as remote as you can get, 100 miles downstream from where the haul road bridge crosses the Yukon River.

This is the first glimpse of Yukon after 450 mile road trip.

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River is miles across in places.

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The first thing was to make a trail from the beach about 200 feet up the bank to carry things.

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Wife dug pit down to permafrost to keep food cold. We made a trip to near by creek with ice and filled a couple of buckets and put it in pit also but really unnecessary because ice stayed solid all week. It was nice to have ice in cold drinks.

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Daughter damned up stream and put in hose to fill water jugs.

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We cleared land and used weed wacker to establish camp site. My wife and I stayed in this wall tent.

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My daughters tent across from mine.

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Camp Kitchen under tarp and my sister and brother in law stayed in the other wall tent.

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I mainly went to set up sawmill and logging. I cut what was needed to make rails with chainsaw. Cleared trees in area.

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Began cutting logging trails.

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Chainsaw powered rope winch pulled logs down the trial.

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Brother in law built out house from rough cut lumber.

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Posts were set for 24x16 shelter cabin.

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Sister and daughter peeled logs for posts.

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I cut to 10x10 beams 24 feet long to span posts.

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Holes were dug with big auger.

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Tool shed was framed.

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We cleared lots of trees and more will be cleared for a good view of river.

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44 was never strapped far away.

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You are my hero !!!

WOW, Great Post, and I was even allowed to give you some Rep Points, well done.

I would love to help someone build something like that after i retire. You know it's alot of work but everyday you see progress and get that satisfaction of knowing you built it with your own two hands. I've worked all the construction trades over the years, but their boxes. no heart or soul. Keep send the pics, for those of us trapped in the lower 48.

Thanks, it seems to have been a busy week for every body, I have a lot of reading to catch up.

OUTSTANDING!!!!!! Thanks for the journey through the pictures.

WOW, What a great place and it will be awesome when it's all done!!!

Thanks for all the pictures!!!:)

Awesome pics and project. Is this considered the Yukon River delta area?

Thanks AS, I enjoyed reading your post every step of the way.
I am more impressed than if you told me you went to the moon and back.

Awesome ! Thanks !

interesting post, lots of cool happenings.

Outstanding, AS. Thank's for a peak at your camp.

(There must be something about outhouse doors that Alaskans fear.)

As thanks for a great post.
Will be waiting on more pic as well.

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Awesome pics and project. Is this considered the Yukon River delta area?

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It is about halfway between Rampart and Tanana on the Yukon and about 35 miles from each. Most people have more houses on thier block than comprize Rampart and Tanana is bigger and my sister has a house there but still just a Native village. Half a dozen boats traveled the river past property in the week we spent there. There is nothing there.

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Outstanding, AS. Thank's for a peak at your camp.

(There must be something about outhouse doors that Alaskans fear.)

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There is little need for more privacy. I'm a big fan of indoor plumbing myself and if I ever build here will have all the trappings including door. It is doubtful I will ever live this far north though, I'm more of a coastal Alaskan.

Absolutely the most impressive post ever! Love the family teamwork!

Excellent!!! When you have a chance, can you elaborate a bit on that chain saw operated winch. It is something I would never have thought of. How you made it, capacity and type of rope? Thanks for sharing

Pal might need to use one to pull an ATV off of him. If you could print the rules in "city slicker" language that would help. That's probably who'll have to run it.

Oh, look at the time. Gotta run!

AS another great post. You really know how to live my friend.

oldtrap

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Originally Posted by Pal334

Excellent!!! When you have a chance, can you elaborate a bit on that chain saw operated winch. It is something I would never have thought of. How you made it, capacity and type of rope? Thanks for sharing

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Here in my neck of the woods people make their own chainsaw powered rope-tow systems to create their own ski-lifts in mountain ranges that don't have ski-areas!