Sasquatch

We finished our 2011 spring black bear season a few days ago. We took a bunch of good bears at Alaska Hunting Specialist camp at Icy Bay Alaska. Seven of the eighteen we took were seven foot or better and fourteen made book. I’ll be doing a few more post on the...

Spring bear, Icy Bay Alaska

Spring bear season is in full swing here at Icy Bay. So far the Alaska Hunting Specialist crew is  batting a thousand three  bears over seven foot and the rest over six foot six. I’m working some stories on individual hunts, but with one computer in camp and...

Murphy and Hunting Camp

Murphy’s Law: If something can go wrong it will and he will do it at the worst possible time. Trying to get a hunting camp together  before clients arrive is about the worst time to be entertaining an unruly guest like Murphy.  We got to Alaska’s Hunting...

Snowin’ in April

Just when we thought it was safe to start thinking about our garden I woke up to six inches of new snow , six inches  on top of the nearly five left from winter. I don’t mind it to much since I’m not in that big of a hurry for the snow to go just yet. I...

Alaska’s Lone Ranger Congressman Tells It Like It Is.

While most of the lower 48 is putting in or getting ready to put their gardens most of us in Alaska are fighting break up. March and April is the time of the year when snow is at it’s best, so that is when we get our firewood and building logs in for the year....