Favorite Adventure You’ve Done

[Snowwolfe]

Running from the boat launch on the Dalton Highway on the Yukon River to the upper Huslia river in my boat with my son. 600 miles or so in each direction. We carried 400 gallons of gas on the boat. He shot his first moose and black bear and we seen wolves and lynx on the trip.

 

[Navaluk]

This was a great idea. I get seasick always so the sea stories impress me the most. If this wasn’t a hunting forum I would go with studying the Islamic republics in the Soviet Union for a summer. But I think 14 days on the polar ice pack on Viscount Melville Sound living in a wall tent without heat beyond the Colman two burner liquid gas stove. The ice moaning at night still haunts my dreams. Great trip for the great white bear. Too many memories, but shooting ringed seals for dog food was interesting. Spent one 48 hour period trapped in that wall tent with my father and son guiding team under crazy whiteout conditions. Real old time hunters. The father was older and had hunted the bear for decades including selling them to military people up there during the Cold War. He didn’t know how many he had killed in his lifetime. Think about that. Traveling by dogsled was amazing. Nothing but radio communications. You get injured and most things that are easily fixable back here are terminal up there. Probably very much like the trans pacific trip. I am so glad I was dumb enough to do that trip.