Jan 2, 2008 | Alaska
Latest Update!!! Walking out of the house this morning, we find these wolf tracks within 30 feet of our house; jumping over our new boardwalk–the nerve! Because of last year’s hard winter deer populations have plummeted and wolves have benefited. This...Dec 30, 2007 | Alaska
It’s time to fill the woodshed. So we cut a trail up to the muskeg and began to haul out wood. After our endeavors, we continue to develop a ski track (langlaufen) to unlimited ski touring above our cabin…. when we stumbled on these tracks (two wolves!!):...Nov 30, 2007 | Alaska
OK, the house is nearly done and we’re tired of hiking through the mud–not to mention the mud to be removed from the house…. It’s time to build a proper boardwalk–yellow cedar, cement footings and teflon coated screws. Yes!!! You can see...Sep 2, 2007 | Alaska
It’s fall here and the colors are brilliant but only when the sun shines. Here’s an AML barge leaving Wrangell Narrows towards Frederick Sound, Juneau bound: And, we’ve had a hard summer of work buffing out this place but we’re pleased with the...Aug 18, 2007 | Alaska
Trouble with good weather in Alaska is you feel guilty for sitting on your arse. In mid August, we get a beautiful stretch of perfect weather–which happens when a high pressure cell stabilizes in nearby Canada. This guilt trip by mother nature signals us to...Aug 17, 2007 | Alaska
This is our Finnish sauna–it looks like it belongs on the Hobit Movie set. I grew up near Seattle where there were several hills notably Norway Hill and Finn Hill–I won’t go into how these hills got names but there were lots of saunas built behind...