August is finally here ! Moose season starts the 20th. Plan is to fly out to the cabin with my buddy that has a super cub on floats. Get a new rough dock in. A piece of plywood to step on to and a way to dock a plane. Then have my beautiful wife fly out with the guy we charter. N2 Alaska. Have her bring out an electric jack hammer so we can finish the sand point well. We'll have potable running water at the kitchen sink. We currently use water purifying filters n water from the pond out front or the creek. I've got a list of stuff to get done. I'll wait till this winter n snogo out. Some TnG pine on the cieling upstairs and finish kitchen cabinets. Get a new outhouse built.
I got shorted out last season. Had to get a new knee. Got a week in but not near enough time. Didn't get out on snogo earlier so I'm primed up. Glad I kinda planned on being able to use the cabin n still get out hunting n playing around trapping. Or just chillin by the fire with my beautiful wife for a couple weeks.
I built the generator shed and insulated it. Installed an air conditioner so I can hang meat. Keep it clean cool n bug free. And be able to work on getting a moose processed without needing to make sure that the plane can get in to fly out meat. Got a couple wheelers with winches to help with the moose. I use a Colman canoe for a summer freight sled. Can load the moose in the canoe n pull it under the meat pole/ wood shed. Winch it up n skin the pieces. Hang in the cooler. I freighted out a refrigerator freezer combo a couple years ago and even have a vacuum sealer. So pretty set up to be about as easy as I can get it.
We have an Incinolet incinerator toilet in the cabin. I like to make sure that my beautiful wife is comfortable n happy. And yeppers. Taking a dump outside at 30 below ain't happening no more. Nice toasty cabin with a great view.
Hopefully our daughter n grandson will be able to fly out this year. I'm kinda excited about taking her out moose hunting. I was able to call in a 58" non typical moose for our son's first moose. Be great to be able to do that with our daughter also. And take our grandson out for walkabouts. Canoeing and catching pike in the little pond out front. Usually a pair of swans nest there. So not unusual to be setting out at the pond in a little ground blind I built a see wolves out hunting in the evenings. I missed a pure white one a few years back. Yeah I'll own it. He came in while I was calling moose. So kinda cool just watching n seeing him.
Anyhows the opportunities are there to go out n do. Beautiful wife n me staked this remote land years ago. Took years to build our cabin. That in itself was a great journey. Dreaming of the day when I could get out into the bush n chill with the family. The nights when the northern lights were out dancing above. 20 below, I'd just find an open spot n turn the snogo off. Lay back on my pack n watch. Take a little pull of whiskey, smoke a cigar. Kinda seems like that with coming true now. Although it was all good. Even the breaking trail in snow up,to your chest after an ice storm closed off the trail for miles. The machines break n leaves you stranded. Freight sleds breaking and loads shifting off or breaking. Skipping open water freighting hundreds of pounds. Falling through ice and into water. Or creeks that can be 6-8 feet down that get snow blowed over them. Over flow. Freezing body parts n frost scars to boot. A few nights under a spruce tree.
I was a bit tougher back then. Our family depended on me to harvest a moose for the year. So I'd spend my vacation time out in the bush. Tent time in some pretty wet windy weather. And knew back then what I needed to do so I could be able to get out with my family. Share what I've been blessed to learn with our grandkids. Livin the dream man. I've got my aches n pains. But consider my the most blessed man in the world. And being able to enjoy the bounties of the world around me for my entire life provided by the land around me. The Alaskan wilderness. Even got to go hang out in Prince William sound out of Whittier for days at a time. Catching what the sea offered, cruising around the glaciers trolling for salmon. Getting to hunt blacktail deer or on the islands. Whales breaching. Getting stranded with broken engine on the little river boat in nowhere bush.
But it's the bush and time out at the cabin that really has my heart. I can spend weeks or months out by myself. And never get bored. Time doesn't matter. Getting through the next moment does. Setting in a ground blind around the little pond in the evenings is the best TV I've ever watched. Opportunity to see moose, bear, wolves, lynx. Kinda like the local water hole. And the memories had there now get me through the times I'm not there. But I'll be there soon. Told beautiful wife I'd like to spend a month out n she said great. So yeah. For me getting ready for hunting season brings back a lot of great memories and makes me hungry for more.
Good luck out there folks n stay safe. See ya down the trail
I got shorted out last season. Had to get a new knee. Got a week in but not near enough time. Didn't get out on snogo earlier so I'm primed up. Glad I kinda planned on being able to use the cabin n still get out hunting n playing around trapping. Or just chillin by the fire with my beautiful wife for a couple weeks.
I built the generator shed and insulated it. Installed an air conditioner so I can hang meat. Keep it clean cool n bug free. And be able to work on getting a moose processed without needing to make sure that the plane can get in to fly out meat. Got a couple wheelers with winches to help with the moose. I use a Colman canoe for a summer freight sled. Can load the moose in the canoe n pull it under the meat pole/ wood shed. Winch it up n skin the pieces. Hang in the cooler. I freighted out a refrigerator freezer combo a couple years ago and even have a vacuum sealer. So pretty set up to be about as easy as I can get it.
We have an Incinolet incinerator toilet in the cabin. I like to make sure that my beautiful wife is comfortable n happy. And yeppers. Taking a dump outside at 30 below ain't happening no more. Nice toasty cabin with a great view.
Hopefully our daughter n grandson will be able to fly out this year. I'm kinda excited about taking her out moose hunting. I was able to call in a 58" non typical moose for our son's first moose. Be great to be able to do that with our daughter also. And take our grandson out for walkabouts. Canoeing and catching pike in the little pond out front. Usually a pair of swans nest there. So not unusual to be setting out at the pond in a little ground blind I built a see wolves out hunting in the evenings. I missed a pure white one a few years back. Yeah I'll own it. He came in while I was calling moose. So kinda cool just watching n seeing him.
Anyhows the opportunities are there to go out n do. Beautiful wife n me staked this remote land years ago. Took years to build our cabin. That in itself was a great journey. Dreaming of the day when I could get out into the bush n chill with the family. The nights when the northern lights were out dancing above. 20 below, I'd just find an open spot n turn the snogo off. Lay back on my pack n watch. Take a little pull of whiskey, smoke a cigar. Kinda seems like that with coming true now. Although it was all good. Even the breaking trail in snow up,to your chest after an ice storm closed off the trail for miles. The machines break n leaves you stranded. Freight sleds breaking and loads shifting off or breaking. Skipping open water freighting hundreds of pounds. Falling through ice and into water. Or creeks that can be 6-8 feet down that get snow blowed over them. Over flow. Freezing body parts n frost scars to boot. A few nights under a spruce tree.
I was a bit tougher back then. Our family depended on me to harvest a moose for the year. So I'd spend my vacation time out in the bush. Tent time in some pretty wet windy weather. And knew back then what I needed to do so I could be able to get out with my family. Share what I've been blessed to learn with our grandkids. Livin the dream man. I've got my aches n pains. But consider my the most blessed man in the world. And being able to enjoy the bounties of the world around me for my entire life provided by the land around me. The Alaskan wilderness. Even got to go hang out in Prince William sound out of Whittier for days at a time. Catching what the sea offered, cruising around the glaciers trolling for salmon. Getting to hunt blacktail deer or on the islands. Whales breaching. Getting stranded with broken engine on the little river boat in nowhere bush.
But it's the bush and time out at the cabin that really has my heart. I can spend weeks or months out by myself. And never get bored. Time doesn't matter. Getting through the next moment does. Setting in a ground blind around the little pond in the evenings is the best TV I've ever watched. Opportunity to see moose, bear, wolves, lynx. Kinda like the local water hole. And the memories had there now get me through the times I'm not there. But I'll be there soon. Told beautiful wife I'd like to spend a month out n she said great. So yeah. For me getting ready for hunting season brings back a lot of great memories and makes me hungry for more.
Good luck out there folks n stay safe. See ya down the trail
