Alaska expedition 2011

[Grandpa]

Originally Posted by Judy Ann

Kamchatka could just be another side trip Grandpa for one of your dream trips. It isn't too often that a couple of kindred spirits/gentlemen have the time and desire to visit a part of the world in such close proximity. As I see it, one of the biggest obstacles of traveling to your destination would be convincing Fridge to let the Porter carry his pack! LOL!!!!

No doubt Judy. I am impressed with the Fridge. I, however, have no qualms at all about letting a porter or a horse carry my pack. Especially when it is loaded for 16 days at 15,000 ft.

[Judy Ann]

LOL!!! ;-) Me neither!

[Refrigerator]

Originally Posted by Judy Ann

Kamchatka could just be another side trip Grandpa for one of your dream trips. It isn't too often that a couple of kindred spirits/gentlemen have the time and desire to visit a part of the world in such close proximity. As I see it, one of the biggest obstacles of traveling to your destination would be convincing Fridge to let the Porter carry his pack! LOL!!!!

Now Ms Judy, I remember asking you I would carry your pack if you would carry mine.

[ppine]

How can you beat a country with 6 runs of salmon, the world's largest bears, a wolf population that was never decimated, and the coldest temperatures outside the polar regions? Not to mention tigers and snow leopards? It grows some tough people.

I liked your picutres. Alaska and Siberia are very impressive and change people's lives by spending time there. I commend you for sharing your experiences.

[Judy Ann]

Originally Posted by Refrigerator

Now Ms Judy, I remember asking you I would carry your pack if you would carry mine.

Yours weighed 3 times what mine weighed!!!
You did carry my tent though!

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...

Trip photos are very nice. I seem to be seeing only two-place aircraft in your AK treks. Were larger planes also utilized?

Wish I could join you (not that you're coming apart, or anything) in Kamchatka. That place fascinates me, as do other parts of Russia.

Lots of big game humting in Kamchatka, too...many rercords, so I'm told.

My juvenile mind says go, but my antique bones tell me it's a no go, though. Drat.

[Refrigerator]

Originally Posted by ppine

Isn't the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia? Russia is a few thousand miles further west.

How can you beat a country with 6 runs of salmon, the world's largest bears, a wolf population that was never decimated, and the coldest temperatures outside the polar regions? Not to mention tigers and snow leopards? It grows some tough people.

Kamchatka is 780 mile peninsula in the Russian Far East. My friend who is a surgeon was also in the Russian Army and has told me awesome tales of hardship. His brothers are professional hunters in the region and make there living at it. In Alaska My friend whom I call Mike started picking mushrooms, many of them as we feasted that night on mushroom soup. Mike said in his younger years he and his brothers and dad would go pick mushrooms every other day throughout the warmer months.


Kamchatka Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[LinuxRacr]

Refrigerator, amazing pictures, and amazing adventure. An Alaska trip has been a dream of mine, every since my father went there in 1988 in the Air Force Reserves for 3 weeks, and returned with stories of how awesome it is.