Today in Anchorage

[trysail]

There's ups and downs to bush flying.

Are you in a place where you can get your private ticket?

I once wanted to have a plane and be a pilot, but I came to the realization that I work too much and wouldn't have time to stay current. By current, I mean "well practiced." Too many guys with a private ticket and a nice plane die when they do stupid things. For me, it's best to hire a good pilot to take me where I want to go. And I always tell the pilot that I've got extra coffee and cookies, should the weather be too bad to pick me up. No use flying into any hard clouds. I like a little gray hair on my pilot.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old, bold pilots.


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[Beco]

Hey do you watch those shows like Life Below Zero, about families or individuals living in the wilderness of Alaska? What do you think of them?

 

[thør]

Hey do you watch those shows like Life Below Zero, about families or individuals living in the wilderness of Alaska? What do you think of them?

I do not recall having seen that particular show. I watch some because I like to see how my state is portrayed and because I know a few of the people on the shows from time to time and it's a good laugh.

Most of the Alaskan reality shows are just hyped up drama, in my opinion. And, some of them are just fiction.

My family came to Alaska in the early 1900's. They settled where there were no roads or utilities. You got where you needed to go by boat or foot. If something broke, you fixed it or made due without. There was no drama, it was just life, like any other place.

People should get up from the TV and go out and take a walk more often.

 

[Beco]

I do not recall having seen that particular show. I watch some because I like to see how my state is portrayed and because I know a few of the people on the shows from time to time and it's a good laugh.

Most of the Alaskan reality shows are just hyped up drama, in my opinion. And, some of them are just fiction.

My family came to Alaska in the early 1900's. They settled where there were no roads or utilities. You got where you needed to go by boat or foot. If something broke, you fixed it or made due without. There was no drama, it was just life, like any other place.

People should get up from the TV and go out and take a walk more often.

Thats the show! You could have been a producer. Mostly those shows are on Discover or the NG channels. Its more for relaying history than anything.

I'd go off in the wilderness myself, maybe to see that Magic Bus from that movie, but I'd be afraid of bears and frankly, bugs....can't stand when misquitos just won't stop...I may try it sometime.

 

[thør]

Thats the show! You could have been a producer. Mostly those shows are on Discover or the NG channels. Its more for relaying history than anything.

I'd go off in the wilderness myself, maybe to see that Magic Bus from that movie, but I'd be afraid of bears and frankly, bugs....can't stand when misquitos just won't stop...I may try it sometime.

Me, a producer? I doubt it. I don't like making drama out of the mundane.

Go see the bus in the snow, it's not like it's hard to get there. Only morons get in trouble on that trail.

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[Beco]

Me, a producer? I doubt it. I don't like making drama out of the mundane.

Go see the bus in the snow, it's not like it's hard to get there. Only morons get in trouble on that trail.

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Is that right? He couldnt walk out for some reason....

 

[thør]

Is that right? He couldnt walk out for some reason....

The river water came up so it was dumb to cross at the normal crossing spot. There was a ranger cabin a short distance away with supplies in it. Anyone just hanging out would have explored that far upstream.

 

[Beco]

The river water came up so it was dumb to cross at the normal crossing spot. There was a ranger cabin a short distance away with supplies in it. Anyone just hanging out would have explored that far upstream.

I read that, i read the book. The ranger cabin was just 10 miles or so upstream. Oh well, made, IMO, for a good movie and book. Sad story, but it gave me ideas on adventure travel

 

[thør]

I read that, i read the book. The ranger cabin was just 10 miles or so upstream. Oh well, made, IMO, for a good movie and book. Sad story, but it gave me ideas on adventure travel

You might read Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith (Ember Press). He's a local guy who likes to explore and stuff.

Another local guy, Jon Bauman, was paddling into the harbor in Iceland when the Nat Geo crew was getting ready to film the first modern kayak circumnavigation of Iceland. Jon had just finished "the first", and he did it alone.

 

[thør]

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[thør]

RIP - Rick Leo

"Our genetic dispositions have a basis here -- dispositions to dominate and to herd together for the sake of survival, to wander alone in hope of revelation, instinctively to seek more in order to allay fear of scarcity, and to stand silently, if only for a moment, in humility, and awe at all that exists beyond ourselves."


He was a city boy who moved to Alaska in the early 1980's.

 

[thør]

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[thør]

"You know you're in Alaska when the temp at noon is -4°, the high is supposed to be 11° and the forecast says "sunny skies, chilly temperatures." 11°? Chilly?? Ya think?"

LOL!

 

[Aquagal]

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

 

[thør]

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[Aquagal]

Lunch at Kobe House.

 

[Aquagal]

Hoar frost on a spider web.

 

[thør]

Back in Anchorage!

 

[thør]

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[thør]

The Huff-Po has 'published' a story about the 21 coldest colleges in the country. No actual research was done to for this story as it was all provided by http://colleges.niche.com and the author just dropped the Canadian colleges from the list as they're not in the country. So, where did our local Uni stack up? The University of Alaska, Anchorage was not in the list. It's evidently, not that cold, here. But, some university in Puerto Rico made the primary list prior to the culling of the Canadians, so I say that the list is foul. I also note that Alaska Pacific University whose campus adjoins with UAA did not make the list either? And UAF in Fairbanks did not make the list (undoubtably, because of global warming.) Even Ilisagvik College in Barrow, Alaska missed the list.

Remember that figures don't lie, but liars figure.

 

[Beco]

30 degrees in Anchorage

18 in DC

go figure....

 

[thør]

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I used to see this guy at the coffee shop every morning between 6:20 and 6:30a. Nice guy, pleasant, just a guy on his way to work. But he hasn't been there for a couple of months. I figured his habits just changed. but then, I read the paper this morning and see he was severely injured a couple months ago. He was doing the same sort of thing I was doing at his age. I was over the bars countless times when riding my MTB on the dirt trails and the most I ever got was a need for stitches. I'm a lucky SOB compared to Luke. Yeah, today, while reading the newspaper, I find out his name is Luke.

ADN story

 

[MonaLittle]

OMG, Thor. Heartbreaking! Did you know anything about him personally before you stumbled upon that article?

One of my VERY best friends works in the ER at a major hospital here. She has a side job of caregiver/nurse for a guy, 22, who was injured playing football in H.S. He communicates with her in the same way as Luke. Blinking. I have seen the board she uses to help with the process. What a tedious, slow way to communicate.

 

[thør]

OMG, Thor. Heartbreaking! Did you know anything about him personally before you stumbled upon that article?

One of my VERY best friends works in the ER at a major hospital here. She has a side job of caregiver/nurse for a guy, 22, who was injured playing football in H.S. He communicates with her in the same way as Luke. Blinking. I have seen the boards she uses. What a tedious, slow way to communicate.

He was just a guy to pass guy-chat with while waiting for coffee. Never knew his name. Knew his business, and figured it to be growing as he had a nice new F350.

 

[thør]

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