Second beautiful day here. Sunny and near 50 degrees and just a light breeze. This after a week of increasing winds that peaked at 40 mph day before yesterday and maybe in the 30`s or mid-20’s with the wind chill. Still, it was all dry weather.
I’m guessing there was no better place [...]
what a day. Temperatures are down in the 30’s during the day now, but still – it’s sunny and dry. I’ve decided 10 or 20 degrees colder and dry is better than wet.
We left to do training at Ooguruk Island, the Pioneer oil rig, in the afternoon. Saw a big polar bear [...]
We went to a barrier island near Prudhoe Bay today to anchor down a connex so it could not be floated by storm or ice flow. We went in a hover craft – my first such trip in this craft. It was kind of like the sensation of flying in a heliocopter, without [...]
We left on Friday Aug 29 to moose hunt up in Fairbanks. My former deckhand, Tom, got a cow permit, so I went up with his dad and uncle to hunt north of Fairbanks, the first place I knew in Alaska when I came up to college in 1983.
Tom helped build a summer camp in [...]
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