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Fascinating! Richard, you make the barent cold of Alaska look appealing.
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04-27-2020, 08:29 AM | #4 | ||||||
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love it !
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04-27-2020, 10:50 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Great pics Richard, really enjoy seeing a spot like that, as wild as it gets!
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04-27-2020, 11:01 AM | #6 | ||||||
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I see snowmobile tracks crossing he lake - how far from the nearest town is that lake?
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04-27-2020, 11:56 AM | #7 | ||||||
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73miles from Fairbanks Dean. 35miles SE of Healy, a coal mine town, but it's quite a trip over the pass to get here from there. It can be done though; a hunting guide used to ride his working horses in over the pass every summer. Those tracks are from a trapper who bases out of a sizeable lodge complex 2.3miles down river. It's quite the place and used to be a hunting lodge until the owner fatally crashed his Super Cub because he strapped hay bales on the struts and tried to get out of a very short strip. Bad idea. Someone tried to make it a sightseeing lodge for a while but that didn't go and it has a new owner now, but not much activity that I've seen. There is a beaver lodge on this little lake that has never been active since I've been going out there. There is an active lodge on a tiny pond between this lake and the river that the trapper made a trap set on this spring. First time I've seen anyone trap that lodge. A google search of "Lynn Castle Wood River Lodge" will turn up a lot of information. The link below shows only a fraction of what is there. There's something like 17 buildings there. The main bldg is in good shape but some of the rest are falling apart. There's a road grader, a Cat D-2, and some horse drawn equipment there used for their hay field. The original owner put a lot of effort and money into putting it together. I know several hunting guides that got their start working for Lynn. Not enough room here to go into all the history. https://woodriveralaska.com/the-lodge
Have added a pic showing where the lodge is compared to my little lake. Dean: I assume the orimaries are the wing feathers? Google has no idea what an orimarie is! I can tell you that I had a drumming ruffie in the woods here for a month one spring and by the time he was finished drumming he looked like he had gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson! His tail was especially frazzled. Good thing I kept him fed with daily dishes of sunflower chips and water delivered right to his log. Actually, the second grouse picture shows the reception I got most days... |
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04-27-2020, 12:10 PM | #8 | ||||||
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I never get tired of your pictures! Thanks for posting them.
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04-27-2020, 12:26 PM | #9 | ||||||
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i tt enjoy all of richards adventures....charlie
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04-27-2020, 02:23 PM | #10 | ||||||
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I'll bet "orimaries" were intended to be primaries
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