Alaskan Adventure
Back in 2006 3 friends and myself spent a week in the Alaskan bush, up near the Arctic Circle. We had worked at getting ready to do for over a year, previously. We were hunting wolves and bear, and while we never connected it was one of THE BEST hunts I have ever done! I believe everyone else felt the same way. To this day it was one of the best memories of hunts that I have.
We all met up in Fairbanks and then drove up to Circle on the Yukon River. There we put the boat in the water and went North until we found a site that looked good for camping and hunting. An amazing time in amazing country!
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I had posted photos and text on Leverguns but somehow the link to them was never posted. Just yesterday I discovered they are still on there and if you are interested, you can access the pages via this link: https://www.leverguns.com/alaska/Default.htm
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Alaskan Adventure
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Friday, September 22, 2023, 17:23 (426 days ago) @ JimT
Looks great! Bugs don’t sound like much fun, though…
Looks like you had a 71 Winchester n assuming a 348? Did you carry a handgun too?
Alaskan Adventure, well sort'a
by Murphy , Friday, September 22, 2023, 21:02 (426 days ago) @ JimT
I worked the Alaskan pipeline during 1975-1976. About 10 weeks during 1975 starting around mid September until mid November. My first hitch starting just past the Yukon for a few weeks at one work camp, then on up the road a bit to camp Old Man. A few more weeks and wrapped up that hitch in Coldfoot camp, just inside the artic circle. Got caught up in a layoff for the winter and went back in the spring of 1976 for a 14 week straight hitch, 90% of which I was at Coldfoot Camp. The Brooks Range is gorgeous. Coldfoot sat along a fork in the Koyukuk River, beautiful. And the northern lights there have to be seen to believe.
I do wish it had been a hunting trip like I'd read about from my younger days. None the less, I was blessed to have gotten to spend the time there.
Murphy