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  1. ColeyG

    Gaiters + Quick creek crossing

    Sometimes to keep the old boots dry, you just have to bite the bullet and break out the man calves and undershorts...
  2. ColeyG

    Help aging rams ? Family banter

    At least 7, maybe an 8th year hiding under hair at the base. More views of both horns needed to be accurate. Definitely a challenging horn configuration, growth pattern, and color. Cool ram.
  3. ColeyG

    Mt Ranier

    I worked for one of the mtn guide services based in the Cascades for quite a while and slogged Baker, Rainier, and most of the volcanoes and popular peaks in the Cascades at least a handful of times. You can't go wrong with a guided trip on either peak. Both peaks are in beautiful settings and...
  4. ColeyG

    Why do we burry our poop?

    And I even left out the preferred technique for “doing the deed” while on remote alpine rock climbing routes. It’s a two part technique. Step 1, shit-on-a-shingle (big flat rock). Step 2, fly the shitty shingle, aka “the dirty bird” off of the route in a direction where it will wind up...
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    Why do we burry our poop?

    Oh the sh*t stories I could tell. After over 20 years as an outdoor professional, mtn guide, and ranger, I've finally managed to transition to a job where I don't have to play an active part in supervising strangers pooping in the woods. I have a strict "family and friends poop only" policy...
  6. ColeyG

    Transporting Meat

    I fly with meat a couple of times a year from the L48 and/or HI back to AK. The Yeti Hopper 30 soft cooler weighs exactly 50lbs when stuffed with cut and wrapped meat. I bought a pair of them a few years back just for this purpose and wind up using them way more often than my hard sided...
  7. ColeyG

    Battery powered chainsaws.

    I have the Stihl 161 T with the AP 300 battery. I picked it up last summer to limb 6 full grown cottonwood trees that I had to take apart from the top down. I couldn't be more impressed with that little saw. I actually wish I would have purchased the AP 200 battery to save a pound of weight...
  8. ColeyG

    In your experience, where are the biggest, most rugged mountains?

    Fun fact. The deepest gorge in North America is the great gorge of the Ruth Glacier in the Alaska Range with roughly 9700' feet of relief from the top of Mount Dickey to the bottom of the gorge. Hells is the deepest river canyon on the continent with roughly 8k of relief.
  9. ColeyG

    In your experience, where are the biggest, most rugged mountains?

    Considering the OPs question and criteria, "biggest and most rugged," I think the clear winner would the the North Cascades in Washington. The volcanoes there start close to sea level and rise to close to 11k (Baker, Glacier Peak) giving the "range" more elevation gain from base to summit that...
  10. ColeyG

    life on the koyukuk

    "Alaska's Wolf Man" and "Coming into the Country," also by Reardon, are both excellent pieces of Alaskana, as is "Kantishna, Mushers, Miners, and Mountaineers" by Tom Walker.
  11. ColeyG

    Free Standing vs. Non Free Standing Tent

    Freestanding vs. not doesn't every really make the list of criteria I consider when shopping for a new tent. After using dozens of different makes and models from backpacking to hunting to mountaineering applications, weight, layout/space, vestibule design and durability are all things I am...
  12. ColeyG

    Moose hind quarter dimensions?

    Get the "moose" set, aka "Magnum" pack from Caribou gear and you will be good to go. If weight and space aren't huge concerns, I usually bring two sets so I can change them out if I am in the field for a while.
  13. ColeyG

    Question on packing out just meat

    Get yourself one of those fancy new self-carrying meat packs. I caught mine taking a break with a load this fall. You could also do it the old fashioned way and get a good pack made for carrying meat and hump it yourself. I've used a few, Sitka, Stone Glacier, and Exo, and have settled...
  14. ColeyG

    Went in for Moose, came out with a Ram.

    Dude. This is awesome. Huge congrats and I would be lying if I said I wasn't supremely jealous. What an awesome ram and great experience.
  15. ColeyG

    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    Those seem like good numbers for the Talkeetna's and glad to hear there are decent numbers of younger rams on the way up there.
  16. ColeyG

    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    Man I wish I could share your optimism, but based on what I have been seeing, there aren't many young rams working on getting older, and not many ewes on the hill to rebuild the population. Ewe/lamb ratios were as bad as I have ever seen this summer. I am trying hard to find the potential...
  17. ColeyG

    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    Well, that is a wrap for sheep season for me. It has been three full seasons since I last laid eyes on a legal ram. I'd like to think I haven't gotten worse as a sheep hunter as more time has gone by, but I am certainly beginning to wonder. As much as I would like to believe that maybe I am...
  18. ColeyG

    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    What does this imbalance look like?
  19. ColeyG

    Full Curl or Not

    Thanks for sharing that lesson learned and tough experience. Ram fever is real. I don't want to think about how many barely legal rams I have let walk at this point, but I feel like that is a much better outcome than handing over a sub-legal at the end of an otherwise awesome experience.
  20. ColeyG

    Sea level to 10,000 :: avoiding altitude sickness

    https://beyondthekill.net/altitude-illness-awareness-prevention-and-treatment-by-coley-gentzel/
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