Aug
03
2007

Camping, Alaskan style

Our cabin was awesome.

cabin in Doroshin Bay, Skilak lake

It had been refurbished since whatever hard-core, backwoods guy had built it, but the original frame was there. Skip got a fire going and I gladly traded my wet clothes for some new ones. We had steaks that were 2 inches thick and dripping juices into a sizzling fire. The smell was no doubt traveling for miles, and maybe making other mouths water besides just mine?

After the best meal I have ever had camping, morale slowly and steadily improved. There were only 2 bunk beds inside, so I made my bed on the smooth wooden benches of the picnic table. Hard, but after a day like today, I could have slept on nails.

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Aug
03
2007

wet, cold, and happy

skilak lake, kenai peninsula

Despite the near miss of both a record trout and spotting a bear today, I couldn’t help but smile.

Here I was, in the middle of a lake in the back country of Alaska, and headed to sleep in a cabin built by a trapper in the early 1900’s. There was just one small problem….

Getting there!

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May
26
2007

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