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This is from a long-time friend I last camped with in February in the "My Buddy's Property in the Sierra" thread around post #132. I think we met around 1997 or so.
Posted last night...
Well, camp life just gets better and better, and bears continue to keep us on our toe's. Until about a week ago we had never seen one in camp, but last Sunday the boss was cooking in the bunk house and he had an uninvited dinner guest. The bear was standing at the open door, two paws inside, nose in the air. He startled the hell out of the boss, who grabbed a hammer (the only available weapon) and scared it away. Meanwhile, we now have two cool camp dogs to entertain us. Unfortunately, the smaller black and white one tangled with a bear yesterday and barely escaped. He was wearing a bandana that was ripped up and recieved some claw marks on his chest. He thought he was after a deer, but it turned out to be much bigger and meaner. All in all though, the bears have pretty much not been a problem, and hopefully they will be gone soon. Meanwhile, we continue to enjoy fresh shrimp, crab, halibut, red snapper and venison, but salmon have been a bit thin. Otherwise I got a few days off to see Mrs A/T and to move my boat from Juneau to Ketchikan and had a great trip in good weather. I needed to get back to camp from Ketchikan and heard that the CEO was flying in to camp on a chartered float plane. I was able to hitch a ride with him, rather than fly commercial and then drive several hours to catch another boat to camp. My timing was pretty good on that one. Now that I'm back, in additon to being in charge of marine operations, I'm told I'll be leaning to operate heavy equipment. Oh joy, I can hardly wait to start ripping things up. The two bottom photos are the site of the penstock intake. Life in the bush is rewarding.
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It was just anounced that we will be shutting down for three weeks at Xmas. My hope is that it snow's like hell starting about Nov 1st so we get shut down till Feb. Three weeks won't be enough to make the Baja 1000 and I really want to see the race. As for dogs, I enjoy the ones in camp since I get to have a good buddy, but I don't have to clean up after them. The biggest problem with dogs is that you have to run the dog food through the dog instead of putting it directly in the trash. A bear dog would be great, but there is enough fire power in this camp to take down every bear in Alaska. I'm the only one in the entire crew that doesn't have or carry several guns. I'm such a lousy shot, a gun would be nearly useless, so I'm relying on bearspray.
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Posted last night...
Well, camp life just gets better and better, and bears continue to keep us on our toe's. Until about a week ago we had never seen one in camp, but last Sunday the boss was cooking in the bunk house and he had an uninvited dinner guest. The bear was standing at the open door, two paws inside, nose in the air. He startled the hell out of the boss, who grabbed a hammer (the only available weapon) and scared it away. Meanwhile, we now have two cool camp dogs to entertain us. Unfortunately, the smaller black and white one tangled with a bear yesterday and barely escaped. He was wearing a bandana that was ripped up and recieved some claw marks on his chest. He thought he was after a deer, but it turned out to be much bigger and meaner. All in all though, the bears have pretty much not been a problem, and hopefully they will be gone soon. Meanwhile, we continue to enjoy fresh shrimp, crab, halibut, red snapper and venison, but salmon have been a bit thin. Otherwise I got a few days off to see Mrs A/T and to move my boat from Juneau to Ketchikan and had a great trip in good weather. I needed to get back to camp from Ketchikan and heard that the CEO was flying in to camp on a chartered float plane. I was able to hitch a ride with him, rather than fly commercial and then drive several hours to catch another boat to camp. My timing was pretty good on that one. Now that I'm back, in additon to being in charge of marine operations, I'm told I'll be leaning to operate heavy equipment. Oh joy, I can hardly wait to start ripping things up. The two bottom photos are the site of the penstock intake. Life in the bush is rewarding.
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It was just anounced that we will be shutting down for three weeks at Xmas. My hope is that it snow's like hell starting about Nov 1st so we get shut down till Feb. Three weeks won't be enough to make the Baja 1000 and I really want to see the race. As for dogs, I enjoy the ones in camp since I get to have a good buddy, but I don't have to clean up after them. The biggest problem with dogs is that you have to run the dog food through the dog instead of putting it directly in the trash. A bear dog would be great, but there is enough fire power in this camp to take down every bear in Alaska. I'm the only one in the entire crew that doesn't have or carry several guns. I'm such a lousy shot, a gun would be nearly useless, so I'm relying on bearspray.
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IMG_3046.jpg
IMG_3052.jpg
IMG_3103.jpg
IMG_3274.jpg
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