Near Life Experience

The highlight of guiding with the float-plane this summer was being able to bring my son along with me on a trip to Twin Lakes to see and explore the famed cabin of Dick Proeneke. Dick built his cabin almost entirely with materials from the surrounding landscape, and built purely by hand. The weather was perfect and the fall colors were awesome.

Hillside above Twin Lakes


Some of the hand tools used


The Cabin


Cache or Credit?


Father & Son


Coleson's shot


Cozy

The Boys are Back

For my Birthday, a friend and I took our boys out for a camping/hunting trip. We were unable to camp at our first location due to someone's camp already there, so we found a spot that would still be fun for the boys, even if it would be a little light on game. We saw three Brown Bears (out of season), and were pretty close to one of them. The boys enjoyed jumping off some of the larger rocks into the tundra, hiking around, and of course snacking when we would stop to rest or glass the hills. They discovered that the tops of the smaller hills were"good spots for bones" and they would carry around what they had found and collected.

Our Camp


On the Lake


Blueberries


A View Up the Valley


A Good Spot for Bones


Looking for Game


A Bear Checking us out


Totally Tweaked Boneless Mutated Air (TTBMA)


Cannon Ball!


Three Amigos