Don't leave food on the plane in AK

[joken]

The Outdoor Option

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[2Wheels4Ever]

And I thought sage rats in the shop were bad.....

 

[johnny bob]

A bit of duct tape and it will fly again in Alaska.

 

[Stomper]

Bears..... and $10 says there was a stream FULL of sockeye salmon not 30' away.

 

[Dungannon]

Summer of 1968 and I was helping a friend prepare a cabin site near Tok Junction. Friend had accessed the site by snowmobile in the winter to girdle the trees he wanted to use. While we all had rifles, by the second day they were all leaning against various trees as we tired of them catching on tree branches when we drug logs into a clearing and peeled bark with drawknives. Decided to go into Tok for refreshments and came back a couple hours later to a camp site that had been turned inside out by bears. Everyone had an irresistible urge to double check their sights were zero'd - using the paper plates that were still left. Slept in the truck beds in what was left of our sleeping bags. Went back to Fairbanks the next day to re-equip. Good times.

P.S. also dug up an entire bison skeleton in a thick ash layer while setting foundation stones. The skull ended up over the fireplace when he finished the cabin the following summer and moved in.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Little known fact, never ever leave your busted airplane in a meadow full of cattle, they will chew the hell out of it and make what ever brought you there much worser!
Buddy lost a cylinder and had to leave it overnight, returned the next day with parts amd tools to find his fancy Super Cub had been half eaten. Lucky the rancher had a roll of shipping wrap and lots of duct tape and we patched it up and replaced the broken cylinder pack and flew it home!
Lesson learned, always leave some one with the plane, and find a portable battery powered electric fence!