The day after Thanksgiving. . . .still recovering from the tremendous food from yesterday's meal. Relaxed having coffee with my wife watching a lovely sunrise over the bay. The boys were committed to working with a neighbor on another neighbor's house. . . doing their best to make progress...
It was a beautiful day on the island today. You have hit a pretty darn good weather window. Some clouds, showers and then four days of sun starting Friday. The clouds will have the deer active longer during daylight.
I use a mini Ipad. The offline maps either lock up, or take hours and hours to load. I live on the north end of Prince of Wales Island, AK, and we don't have cell service on the north half of the island. Offline reliability is a real safety issue in this country! On a hunt last week I turned on...
All that low growth in the pics is called deer cabbage, and is a major summer food up in the alpine. When you are in places that look like those in the pics you are in the right place!
Our first hunt of the year started with a drive up to the north end of the island. We camped up a dead-end road at the base of an unnamed mountain. Camp went up quickly, and we spent the two hours before dinner time to walk a road that wound among some muskegs. We did see a doe and a fawn at a...
Hello All,
Those of you planning to come to POW soon should be aware that Covid cases have been spiking for the past two weeks. My wife got the shot and is dealing with a some quite crummy symptoms. My family is going in for testing tomorrow as me and one of my boys also have symptoms. Take...
The weather appears to be changing from hot and dry to wet. What that does for deer distribution will be determined when our subsistence hunt opens on Saturday. I'd guess there will be more deer up in the alpine than last year. That will depend on how badly the forage up in the alpine got sun...
The drought projections from 10-15 years ago predicted this, which is a big reason why we moved to SE AK instead of the Rocky Mountain west. My thinking is this isn't a "drought" per-se, with an end point. This is the new normal of progressively hotter and drier conditions interspersed with an...
Mine would be a horseback elk/mule deer hunt way in the back of beyond Rocky Mountains. Setting up the wall tents, aspen leaves are golden. . . yep, that is it.
All proceeds support the students of Whale Pass School. Examples are paying costs associated with dual credit college courses through the University of Alaska, costs for our annual Subsistence Week camping trip, buying rain gear and rubber boots for students (most students are in low income...
Let me explain how it works. If you still want one, excellent, if not. . . .no worries.
-We only sell 100 calendars (31 are already pre-ordered, we end up with a waiting list)
-Calendars are $200 each.
- There is a drawing each month for a darn nice rifle.
-Winners stay in the pot and can win...