I stayed in a place with a chest freezer available the day before my flight. Froze all of my boneless meat in double-bagged gallon sized ziplocs, then checked the coolers as luggage on my flight home. Worked pretty well.
This was out of Ketchikan, but I bet there’s somewhere near Anchorage with...
Yes it is an inconvenience, but there is often opportunity there if you look for it as well. Most apply in January and are done with it until results come out. A few watch season and tag quota changes, and modify to their advantage.
We did a road trip all the way up to Maine and back a couple years ago. Followed the coast on the way up, paralleled the border with Canada on the way back down. Saw Kittery and Mt. Katahdin in Maine.
My experience was, for all the northeastern states, people along the coast suck. Rude...
I was there 2 years ago, the year of the bad ehd, and still found a decent number of deer. I was there in mid-November.
Last year I went back with a West River tag in an adjoining unit to the Black Hills later on in the month, and it seemed like the whitetails were about done with the rut.