Moving out for a bit

[AlaskanGuy]

Hi my boolit buddies....

In the next few weeks, I will have very limited internet... I am taking my son to a new small homestead about a thousand miles south of where I live in Cordova, Alaska... We will be developing a couple of cabins over the winter from scratch. We are taking a bunch of chainsaws and some chainsaw mills and making it happen... I really wanna do this with my youngest son, while I am still healthy enough to make it happen... We will be living pretty much completely subsistence for the winter... Will be taking the travel trailer with us... Going by ferry from Cordova, to Valdez by ferry, then driving about 700 miles through central Alaska across the Canadian border, re crossing the border back into the USA near Haines, then catching another ferry from Haines to ketchikan, then hopping another ferry to Prince of wales Island, and driving about 50 miles past Craig Alaska to the final destination.... We wont have power for quite a while except for a wind generator and a small gas generator. We will rig up a water cache meant system to get the daily rainwater so we can bathe and such... Internet will be more of a weekly visit when we go to the nearest town for church... But that will be about it...

Soooo I will be around and checking in, and I don't leave till next month, second or 3rd week, but I thought I would let everybody know.. I aint checking out, just will have very limited internet...

here is a link to where I am going in Naukati Bay.. You can switch to satelite image map if you know how to work with google maps...

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=us&sll=55.8736111,-133.1847222&sspn=4.7462503,11.2786324&q=Naukati+Bay,+AK&hnear=0x540f0714d97db891:0x2a04dfe7a8f271fc,Naukat i+Bay,+AK

wish me luck guys... And prayers..

Mark
AG

[monadnock#5]

Absolutely, good luck to you and your son on your Grand Adventure. Prayers for your health and well being out there in the wild.

[TXGunNut]

Sounds like quite an adventure. Be safe, take care my friend.

[osteodoc08]

Safe travels. You will make a memories for a lifetime.

[starmac]

Me thinks, you are going to miss Akgirls cooking. lol

[SGTM9]

Be safe. And enjoy the one on one time with your son.

[Ramar]

Good luck and be safe!
Ramar

[Finster101]

Geez, why don't you wait for the really nice weather to show up? Good luck to you. Sounds like a lot of fun. Hope you get a pretty decent cabin up before winter sets in. Is the cold preferable to the mosquitos?

[petroid]

That sounds like an incredible adventure! One that many of us would love to have a chance at. Enjoy your time with your son and be safe!

[375supermag]

Wow!!!

Sounds like a grand adventure and an opportunity for a real bonding experience with your son.

I wish I could have had the option to embark on such an adventure in my younger days. Much too old and physically damaged at this late date for anything quite that physically challenging.

I envy you.

[MrWolf]

That sounds like an incredible adventure. I wish I could do something like that with my son but we couldn't get the time. Have a safe and great time!

Ron

[AlaskanGuy]

Thanks guys....

AlaskaGurl will be flying back and forth... :), but I will prolly drop a few lbs...

AG

[GLL]

AG:

Heck of a weight loss program ! ;)

Beautiful area !
Have fun and be careful !

Jerry

[reloader28]

Good luck.
I've been looking for a piece of property to homestead on myself up there. That would be awesome.

[runfiverun]

make sure you drink some of that water...

[Hardcast416taylor]

Heading into a wilderness area in the Fall of the year just in time for a nice friendly Alaskan winter, you have my best wishes.Robert

[square butte]

Awsome - what are you taking with you that go's BANG. Anything you need that I could be of assistance with? PM if need be.

[RoyEllis]

make sure you drink some of that water...
Lamar forgot to say....before your bath![smilie=l:
Crossing in & out of Canada, are you gonna be able to take a shootin' iron with ya?

[AlaskanGuy]

The area I am going to will be a vacation in the winter compared to cordova.. It is much much warmer there, with temps in the 30's in the winter... Nothing like the sheer volume of snow we get here... It is a rain forest though, and will be very very wet. But I have raingear... lol

[AlaskanGuy]

I am sending all of my guns down on a boat... So I will NOT be taking Any firearms accross the border. I will be carrying my Hoyt Carbon Matrix bow though....

[GP100man]

Prayers of SAFE travels for you & yours whenever it may be !!

& post us a few pics when ya can Purtee Please !

The area looks interesting compared to NCs flat coastal plains.

GP

[Bzcraig]

That is an awesome adventure of a lifetime.

[shaper]

Maybe you should contact the history channel and let them film you in this adventure. They might even pay you for doing it. Of course you would have to add some drama here ad there.
Anyway, I wish you all the luck and good health in this venture.

[swheeler]

Sounds like quite the adventure, God be with you!

[AlaskanGuy]

Thanks guys.... I appreciate the well wishes and prayers.....

AG

[w5pv]

Prayers for you and son that your plans mesh like gears.

[Buck Neck It]

Get lots of blue tarps and bungee cord.

Tar paper used to be called "Ketchikan Roll Siding". Now tyvek house wrap takes the honors.

[multigunner76]

I am so jealous. I'd love to volunteer and help on a project like this.

[leeggen]

What a great endevor for father and son. Guess you will be hunting for your food also, aleast some anyway. Don't forget the target range needs set up and we need pics so we can slobber alover ourselves .
good luck.
CD

[MT Gianni]

Enjoy your time with your son and I hope that you accomplish all you set out to do.

[garandsrus]

Great adventure!

Why did you decide to drive through AK and Canada instead of taking the ferry all the way to Prince of Wales Island? Just curious....

John

[bushboy]

Great adventure!

Why did you decide to drive through AK and Canada instead of taking the ferry all the way to Prince of Wales Island? Just curious..

John

Not to speak for AkGuy but the pricing for taking a towed vehicle behind you on an Ak Marine Highways ferry is absolutely insane and he is towing his travel trailer.

[DeputyDog25]

What an experience for your son! This is something I bet, that will always stay with him, and how much he will learn by doing all of this will just be an incredible experience for the both of you. We will most definitely keep you in our thoughts and prayers for safe journey and blessings on your project, that the Lord will have his hand upon all of it. Enjoy yourself, but don't be a stranger!

[histed]

My thought and prayers go with you and your son. If I were 30 years younger... Hard work, hard life and what a great adventure. Where but Alaska!

[MaryB]

Trip of a lifetime and something I miss. I had a great aunt who lived in AK when I was a teen. Spent an entire summer there when I was 13 at her fly in fish camp. She is gone and the fish camp went back to the government. I always wanted to live up there full time and live off the land.

[AlaskanGuy]

Thanks guys.... I have a TON of tarps, boxes of bunngies, and pleanty of rain gear... Cordova where I live now is on the top end of the rain forest, but it gets colder here in cordova so the rain is converted to wet slushy snow by the foot in the winter time.....

I will NOT miss the kind of snow we get in Cordova one BIT....lol

[Buck Neck It]

Hey, matey, no offense. Welcome to the banana belt of AK. I like rain, you don't have to shovel it.

[leeggen]

Hey AG did your wife in the one pic just throw the shovel out of the hole? looks like the shovel handle in the upper left corner. Can't say I would blame her if she did, THAT is alot of snow.
Good luck.
CD

[AlaskanGuy]

lol... No leeggen, the wife was just wanting to complain about the END OF NOVEMBER snow... It was way too early in the year to get 9 foot piles....

[303Guy]

Spending time with your son. How wonderful! Have a great time! Does beer brew in winter?

[AlaskanGuy]

Lol, not sure about the beer, but wine ferents well... :D

[osteodoc08]

AlaskanGuy,

Out of curiosity, what is your load out going to consist of? IOW-What equipment ya bringing?

[starmac]

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