Alaska's most remote
The farthest place from an Alaska village or town in mainland Alaska is a bend of the Etivluk River about 15 miles from its confluence with the Colville River on Alaska’s north slope. The closest villages, each about 120 miles from the river bend are Ambler to the southwest and Atqasuk to the north.
Things that make you go "Hmmmm".
Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
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Originally Posted by klkak
Yeah!
I'll have a dirty martini.
I'm picking up what your laying down!
On a side note, I just read a great book called "Shopping for Porcupine" about a guy who grew up on the tundra north of Ambler. VEry well written with some great pics
Good for you. I think others will in time.
Porcupine are damn fine eating once you get past the quills. They are just a pain to skin.On a side note, I just read a great book called "Shopping for Porcupine" about a guy who grew up on the tundra north of Ambler. VEry well written with some great pics
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
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You have found the "Top Secret" lair of Nativedude.......but, there is a problem. I used to wolf hunt in that area and it does not match the Nativedude Homestead Photos. Our pilot the famous "Shakey Shannan" who at that time flew for Frontier Air, out of Bettles, AK. lunched a cylinder on the C-185 when he came to pick us up, so we got a 5 1/2 week hunt instead of the planned 4 weeks.
There are some lovely mountains East of the head waters of the Noatak River called the Cathedral Spires. We ran our of food and were ready to snowshoe the 35 miles to the village of Ambler. We were there fall of 1970 and the fall of 1971. For those of you who have seen the Small nearly white Grizzly Bear in the Anchorage International Airport, that bear was harvested by my Hunting Partner, near the vary head of the Noatak River, just North of the headwater of the Ambler River over the low pass into the Noatak Valley. I think that was 71'.
Kevin, Back to the drawing board.........Clue He is in a National Park, as that is the only place that one can not use combustion engines, and he said it was illegal to use a Chainsaw where his homestead is located. So get busy detective.
Last edited by Sourdough; 02-08-2010 at 01:27 AM.
Thanks for the history Sourdough. Us younger folks need to hear stuff like that while men like you are still alive and able to tell the stories.
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
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Our friend and old workout partner Bill W.
He is kind of Miffed at me just now, not happy about my selling my wonder Poodle.
Sourdough,
Do you know Howard Kanter? He raised his family (white folks from Ohio) native style, in a sod igloo in the region your talking about from the early 1960's until just a few years ago. His son Seth still lives in the Ambler area
No, Sorry I do not know that name. Note: I have never been to the Village of Ambler.
Last edited by Sourdough; 02-08-2010 at 02:04 AM.
I don't know them either...LOL...I just read a book about them. just the era, and area you were discussing fit-in perfect with the book, so I thought you may have run across them in your ramblings. There is quite a bit of discussion on wolf hunting in the book as well.
Noatak National Preserve, or maybe the Kobuk National park. But then nowhere in the preserve or park is 240 miles for a town!
Last edited by klkak; 02-08-2010 at 02:14 AM.
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours
www.youralaskavacation.com
Tell them Kevin sent you!!
yeah, thats the guy. I just misspelled his name. Fascinating life that family lived. Just like NativeDude, totally primitive except they didn't have internet access.
Dogman, You might like a book: Shadows on the Koyukuk. It is about the Huntington brothers, they were dog mushers. It has several survival events that are painful to read but documented. For any members who think there is a line as to what they would eat or do, it is a painful revealing account of suffering and hardship few have ever known.
Sounds great- I'll look into it, I have heard of the Huntington brothers, I always love a good read. thanks for the tip!
You might also like "The Final Frontiersman" by James Campbell
It is the story of Heimo Korth and His Family, who lives more remotely than any other person in Alaska" as one of only seven hunter-trappers with a permit to live in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Korth lives with his wife and two daughters 130 miles above the Arctic Circle.
Last edited by klkak; 02-08-2010 at 02:32 AM.
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours
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I've got to get this book. I have had several people recommend it over the past couple of years.
SJJ,
sold! I'll order that book as well.
I met Heimo at an Alaska Trappers Association (ATA) get together in Fairbanks a couple years ago.
1. If it's in your kit and you don't know how to use it....It's useless.
2. If you can't reach your kit when you need it....Its useless.
Alaska Backcountry Adventure Tours
www.youralaskavacation.com
Tell them Kevin sent you!!
Other great books of that period: "Born on Snowshoes", by: Evelyn Berkland Shore.....a great read for women. She might have been the toughest human to ever live. Great read.
Many of the characters that Jack London fictionalized were real people who's factual accounts are in "Kantishna" by: Tom Walker (Lots of Dog Mushing in that book) It is the natural sequel to Burning Daylight
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