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I’m glad you are back to writing about this trip. I have often wondered if I had missed the final episodes. I have been looking for them lo and behold there it is this morning. Now I’ve gotten to enjoy Part 8. Your writing makes me feel like I’m experiencing it with you, I can almost feel the...

Up here at 64° N, we’ve already gained 1 minute and 58 seconds since the Winter Solstice. Still 17 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the daylight we get on the Summer Solstice Solstice. In my childhood memories, I can still hear my mother’s voice saying, “As the days begin to lengthen, the cold...

Glen…… That wasn’t much help for me. Hope someone else can use it, but I surely will not. I don’t remember what I had for breakfast. I am not at all interested in how easy or how hard doing things on my minuscule iPhone are or are not going to be. I did write that if they were interested where...

Thanks for the helping hand Tryin’. Being low tech and stubbornly stuck in the fifties & sixties, I do need and appreciate assistance from the IT people. ……B Birchy

Like ppine’s Eagle Claw combo fishing rod, I have an old fiberglass Fenwick combo rod that went all over Alaska when I was a young man. It even went to Japan with me so I could fill out my life list of all of the Pacific salmon species. Since I retired with time to do it , I have bought a S-type...

I don’t know anything about using a whistle to scare away wolves. If interested about my interaction with grizzlies & an Acme Dog Whistle look up my post from August 9, 2019 #13.

I like the thigh high style on my younger women canoe tripping partners, really very practical for beaver dam crossings and fly fishing in rivers & streams where the water is over the knees. I wore out a pair of Red Wing Irish Setter wedge soled hunting boots, canoe tripping in the Boundary...

I think the members here give good/poor/ bad reviews of plenty of products they like or don’t like. Having vendors advertising here is a non-starter for me. Just opening the door to all kinds of mischief.

Halpc ……. Have you read “UNDAUNTED COURAGE” the biography of Meriwether Louis by Stephen Ambrose? Good enough to read more than once, in my opinion. Thanks for the “THRONE OF GRACE” tip. I have it placed on hold at the Fairbanks Borough Public Library, North Pole Branch. Looking forward to a...

You are not considered a true Alaskan Sourdough if you haven’t over wintered in the great land, shot a Grizzly bear, slept with an Eskimo and pissed in the Yukon. There may be something else about a quart of whiskey at one sitting. Snow birds need not apply!!

A bunch of years ago when I was young, I bought a moderately modern, cowboy bedroll from Beckel Canvas Company in Oregon. It’s the same place that I have gotten exceptional eena wall tents. My bedroll, like the tents are pale green #10 canvas. The bedroll is pretty big with a big toothed zipper...

Old time cowboy’s call their quilts, sougans

Billabong picnic blanket is sold in Australia, looking at them on their website they stated that it was made in china. Well, what isn’t these days. I for one will not buy one but I have a friend that has an industrial sewing machine that works it for a fair price. I will be waiting to see how...

I carried a M-60 around for a year when I was a boy, spent many long, dark hours snuggling it near the top of the perimeter berm. Hope never to see one again. I made a couple of black power fire firearms NW Trade Gun smooth bore 20 gauge & a Trade Rifle in .62 caliber. Both were enjoyable...

Great job Murat V. I have enjoyed reading and learning from your most excellent website. …..BB

‘TRAPLINES NORTH’ has been a favorite of mine since I was a sixth grader. Very early influence on many of my life paths.

CC Steve….. I live in interior Alaska, -35°F or colder are common low temperatures this far North during the short dark days of winter. No wind and low humidity make it better than it sounds. I have a couple of nice double barrel side by side shotguns. AYA 16 gauge, Ugartechea 20 gauge for...

Second Monday in October is a more appropriate day for Thanksgiving than the fourth Thursday in November. A canoe trip that combines fishing and ruffed grouse is way better than American football and turkey. No canoeing here today -21°F. supposed to get down to -35° F. later today. Thank you...

The only things I have in common with Albert Faillie is age, I also have a bunch of those cute15- 20 gallon barrels, mine are empty, even empty they wouldn’t be much fun to portage. If they were 55 gallon barrels he wouldn’t have been able to sit down on them so easily, he would’ve had to jump...

I already got the prize a couple of years ago, remember the Woods Pack? I have not forgotten that magnanimous gift, nor will I ever forget another large envelope you sent that contained a trip report and other document's about a canoe route that I may never travel, except in my mind. I can...