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  1. Native up here means indigenous people or tribal and there is tons of animosity between the native population and the general public. I will probably get skewered by some for saying this, but I have never had a positive experience with a native. I've had neutral experiences with them, but the vast majority have been negative to very negative. Natives are openly racist towards all non-natives. Black, brown, or white it doesn't matter. They blame everyone else for all their problems and bad behavior. Drunkenness, drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, or their current situation is all the fault of whomever is standing in front of them at the time. The only time I've ever pulled a pistol on someone was when I was in Anchorage for training. I was walking to the back to the Captain Cook hotel from dinner and a group of about 10 drunk, drugged out natives tried to get money out of me. It starts off with can I bum a cig? Then it goes to do you have a dollar? When I said no to the money request the whole group started heading my way. I pulled the pistol and pointed it right at the dude who's turn it was to ask the questions I guess. They started in with their get the fuck out of our state white boy bullshit, but they all backed the fuck up and sat back down. This was about 2 blocks from the Anchorage Police Station. Basically it's political suicide to say anything negative about the natives, but they can shit all over anyone they want with no repercussions.
  2. We mix burger 80/20 with beef fat. Sausage is 60/40. We try to do a little jerky each year. Making jerky takes a lot of room. We only have a 400 square foot cabin, so we only do one or maybe two batches. We focus on roasts, burger, and sausage. I use 150 grain bullets, anything that stays together. You don't want ballistic tip or anything like that. You want the bullet to retain as much of it's weight until it hits vitals if you are going for a heart/lung shot. I'm a fairly good shot with my 270 up to 300 yards, so I usually go for a neck shot. Basically around where it joins the body. The bullet breaks the neck at kills the animal immediately...DRT. I've done the whole moose camp thing and it's tough work. I basically camp everyday in my normal life so I've taken the easier route when it comes to hunting. I'm a meat hunter. I really couldn't care less about trophy antlers, so me and the wife road hunt. Road hunting is legal here as long as the bull meets game management unit restrictions where you are hunting, you don't shoot from your vehicle, and you don't shoot across a roadway. As an Alaskan resident I get a moose harvest ticket with my hunting license. There are all types of hunts up here. You can put in for draw tags, subsistence, etc. It's just me and my wife, so one moose a year fills the freezer for us. I've killed a caribou, but I'm not that fond of caribou meat. Has a weird taste to me. So I don't really concern myself with the regulations when it comes to other species of animals besides moose and the politics involved in all the subsistence native shit. I don't shoot cows. They produce the next generation. I go for young bulls. I think they taste better. The moose pics I posted in the first page of this thread were of the biggest bull I've ever shot. He was killed 200 ft off the highway. Moose is very mild compared to venison. The only real difference in meat is shooting a bull in full rut or a really old moose. With all the testosterone flowing at that time the meat can be pretty gamy. Plus they roll around in the cow's urine they are chasing at the time and run themselves crazy during the rut. By far the most dangerous animal in the woods is a bull moose in full rut. They attack vehicles and will fuck you up when they've got pussy on the brain.
  3. Reconstitute 12 to 20 dried morels. Retain the liquid and cook a standard package of gnocchi in the mushroom water. Add some more water if you need to. Dice two strips of bacon and render until crispy. Remove and reserve bacon bits. Add a little olive oil to bacon grease Dice up the morels and a couple cloves of garlic and sauté until cooked down. Add 1 pint heavy cream, salt and pepper to taste and reduce by 1/3. Throw the bacon bits back in and a couple of handfuls of spinach and stir constantly until spinach is wilted and sauce reaches desired consistency. Spoon sauce over gnocchi, hit it with a little parmesan and go to town.
  4. That’s hilarious because the exact same thing happens here. There will be groups of 20 or more Asian women out there collecting. We collect to eat too. My wife dries them for winter use. I make a killer morel cream sauce with fresh spinach and bacon that we usually serve over gnocchi. Great winter dish.
  5. On a positive note, next spring the burned area will produce a shit load of morel mushrooms. People will make a good little side income harvesting them. I think you can get $50 per pound for them from the wholesalers.
  6. Wife is working for Forestry in Fairbanks. I’ve been prepping solo at the cabin. If the fire were to jump the river in the middle of the night, Forestry would come through with their sirens on letting people know new shit has come to light.
  7. From the gravel pit where people were stashing their shit.
  8. Since it’s calmed a bit here are a couple of pics...from a tanker pilot out of the base my wife is working at in Fairbanks. Rex Bridge in lower left corner crossing the Nenana River. You can see that big bend in the road I referenced on the map to the south just past the bridge.
  9. Fire moving south again due to a favorable wind. Downgraded from GO to SET. Seemed to have dodged a bullet for now. Thanks for the positive waves
  10. Fire up to 63k acres. Spent the last couple of days hauling the irreplaceable shit out of the cabin and hauling water to the cabin. Fire has been heading right for us. Thought it might jump the river and be on our side yesterday, but the planes, helicopters and fire fighters beat it back. If you look at the map my cabin is about 3 miles east from that big bend on Highway 3 heading south. Now it’s just a waiting game. If the shit hits the fan I’ll load up the few things I have left to transport out, get the dog in the truck, spend as much time as I can dousing the cabin with the water I’ve hauled in then bug out.
  11. Y’all saw a lot of country. The roads are much better now. Nearly everything is paved. You’ll find some 10 to 100 miles stretches of dirt highway still, but it’s getting rare.
  12. Ip to 51k acres. Moving East. Not good. Heard another old timer just lost her place.
  13. This is the view from the highway turnoff to our cabin. Fire is about 8 miles away.
  14. Fire is up to almost 40K acres burned. Still pushing mostly South which is good for me. Our area got downgraded from “set” to “ready” evacuation wise.
  15. Made that drive myself, but not in a Corolla. Kudos to you and your wife. Beautiful country out that way.
  16. That's a strange one to me. He's even at UAF. Fairbanks had a shit ton of snow this year too. Maybe he means statewide and not just the Interior. I don't know. Whatever the conjecture is, this is the worst fire season in several years. It's good for the forest, bad for the folks living in it.
  17. We made a similar joke when she got the job. We say she's on the retard crew.
  18. Been with her for 21 years for a reason : )
  19. Lightning is the major cause. Pure stupidity is the other. People truly are morons...especially the tourists. For some reason their brains go full aggy when they get up here.
  20. Absolutely no prior experience. She was reading in the paper about the firefighter shortage expected this year. Then she heard basically the same story on NPR and decided to sign up and take the classes online. She passed her pack test (carrying 45 pounds of gear 3 miles in 45 minutes) and got her red card as they call it. This qualified her to start training. She wanted to go the aviation route. Not many women in that line of work so she basically got a job immediately. She wants to be on the line fighting a fire on the ground at least once just to see what it is like, but the aviation thing came along so quickly that she couldn't pass that opportunity up.
  21. Appreciated Had a buddy that lost just about everything last night. He and his wife live about 12 miles out off the road. They are old school. Can't get to their place in a vehicle, you have to either atv or snowmachine out. He traps during the winter and then they get their PFDs. That's all the money they have coming in. Since the woods are scorched there will be nothing to trap out his way for years. I really don't know what they are going to do to live.
  22. I don't know what info you were reading, but the Denali Borough had record snowfall this year. Like 3 to 4 times what we normally get. It surprised me how quickly things dried up though. I thought we'd be slogging to our cabin through the mud into July. I've seen the mud last way longer with way less snowfall. The prevailing theory is that we had so much snow on the ground that when the really cold temps hit (30 to 60 below) it insulated the ground and the ground didn't freeze hard like it usually does in winter so the ground was able to absorb the extra water quicker. Makes sense to me. We've also had very little rain so far this summer, couple that with the warm temps (it's been in the 70's and 80's in my neck of the woods with one day reading 92) plus all the lightning storms we've been experiencing it was only a matter of time before something close got set off.
  23. Clear fire is up to 23000 acres. It’s mainly pushing South now, which is good for me. Bad for the folks that live that way though. Lots of homestead cabins out that way. On a side note, my wife got her red card this year to be an emergency wild land firefighter. She got a job in Fairbanks in the aviation section. She’s filling the planes that are fighting the Clear fire with retardant. It’s kinda personal to her now. Her goal is to get on a helicopter crew to do bucket drops before the end of season.
  24. Mostly freight, but the summer season has a lot of folks traveling by rail. They have glass top cars so people have unobstructed views. I’ve never done the trip, but I hear it is awesome
  25. Thanks for the well wishes. Part of living in the woods we basically go through every summer. Summer is my least favorite season because of the fires, bugs, road construction, constant daylight, and tourists.
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