I don't know I'll ever get the opportunity to do something like it, but I'd love to hear how this one went or one of yours AK Troutbum
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Sure! I was just thinking since all the prehunt chatter about this hunt being an epic trip, I'd love to hear how it went. I too would like to do it, or something like it soon!
I was actually just making a joke Nick but I'll go ahead and do a quick synapsis from one of my moose hunts that probably, more less, mimicked this one. Several years ago a buddy of mine drew a, pretty tough to draw, KCUA moose tag. He asked me if I would be interested in taking him up there and he would foot the bill for all the fuel etc. I didn't have a tag but as a resident, once we got into the area, I was able to pick up a registration tag which allowed me to kill an any bull moose, I just had to destroy the antlers/trophy value. So we loaded up at my place in Chugiak at 2 AM, drove to Fairbanks where we filled up about 175 gallons of gas in 15, 20, and 30 gallon barrels, then continued on to Manley Hot Springs. FYI that 90 miles of gravel road to Manly is one of the shittiest roads I've never driven on and I would not recommend it, especially towing a 21' boat. We got to Manly at around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, put the boat in the water, loaded all of our gear and fuel, and headed out.
We ran the 60 miles or so, down the Tanana to the Yukon, then ran another couple hundred miles down the Yukon to the Koyukuk. Prior to getting to the Koyukuk we stopped and made camp at around 9 o'clock that night a few miles down river from Ruby. We got up the next morning, ran down to Galena and filled up all of our barrels for a total of 210 gallons plus the 40 gallon in dwelling tank and continued on to the Koyukuk and up the Koyukuk roughly another 200 miles then up a tributary to the Koyukuk another 30 or 40 miles. When we left Galena with all the fuel, we would burn 30 gallons, then cache 30 gallons and mark with the GPS, burn 20 or 30 gallons and cache 20 or 30 gallons. We did this all the way up so we wouldn't have to carry all of our fuel all the time and so, on our return trip, we would stop at our fuel cache's and refill the indwelling tank until we got back down to Galena. We ended up getting our two moose, then it took another 3 days boat ride back to the truck.
We got back to the truck, loaded up and started our drive out at about midnight, halfway down the road we had a blowout. By the time we got the tire changed and got to a hotel in Fairbanks, it was about four in the morning. We crashed out for a few hours and then got back up to make the final 6 hour drive back home. I think that trip, if I remember right, was about 14 days total.
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