Posted: 5/25/2005 9:40:15 PM EDT
| Here I set in Anaktuvuk Pass, located in the Brooks range and it is currently about 60 above zero! I got out on the four-wheeler and saw some of the counry side today. Are Alaska summers not the best?!?!?!!!!!! |
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I know better than to believe that you do not like your tourist. Fresh off the boats and heading down the tracks, the best way to meet and greet them. So the season has started and the work has began. Ten years in Denali Park, seven with the railroad and I still get a smile regarding the tourist. You enjoy their company. PS I had to return to the Slope early but I still have that package for you and your new one. Speaking of which any updayte photos? |
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Only one of the AR's is mine . A totaly sweet Uber cool 20" SEBR from Cav Arms in Coyote . WOOT!!!!!!!! The other is THE LAST Pink Reciver Cav arms had in a 16" set up for the little lady . Shawn was so cool he re serialed it with her name and Birthday . Needless to say She picked it up last night and has BRD . Or would that be PRD? Pics in a bit Gotta get some photo time in . 
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Nothing but rain, drizzle, and the occaisional down pour here for the last week or so, except for the intermittant bouts of blue stuff and big yellow thing I that I don't know what is.... better this than the 80 degrees we had last year though...ugh.... Al least the rifle range here is Seward is close by.....my wife said the sexiest thing to me today "will you take me shooting?"..... |
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DAMN this was a nice day! Best weather I have had for I don't know how long. Blue sky, slight breeze, few mosquitoes, 70's. Of course it's a big deal to someone like me who spends most of his time in a work location that doesn't get much above 40 and was snowing a week or two ago. When I fly into Fairbanks I can literally smell the grass and trees, something most people take for granted as they don't live on the slope where there are no trees and spots of scrub vegetation on the ground and it doesn't even get warm enough to smell the ocean and I work on an island surrounded by the stuff. Needless to say, it was a good day at the range and tomorrow a big MG shoot. Life is good. 
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AK Mike: Your one of the few that can relate to this. When we flew into King Salmon about a month ago on our once a year trip out it was the first time we had seen trees in a year. Spent at least half our trip in Los Anchorage waiting for traffic lights to change. Made a 60 mile boat trip yesterday and only stopped once when I got there and once when I got back. Traffic was very light. |
Seward's dusted in yellow spruce pollen. I ain't got allergies, but I know several people who never did till this year. It's so bad that my trick was yellow one day |
I know exactly what you mean. Traffic used to really eat me up and I used to speed all the time, eventually having my license suspended. But after so many years in the bush driving big trucks no faster than 35 tempered me and now I never speed - I became the jerk who was always in front of me holding things up. I actually get off on it now. I only went to L.A. once, bumper to bumper 5mph traffic 20 miles out, everything I saw and breathed was nasty when I got there. I vowed then and there to never return to L.A. again. Sorry you had to but I am sure you had to make the sacrifice. These days if there is more than one other vehicle on the road besides me, it's considered heavy traffic. |
It got 100 degrees last summer when the smoke came in. |