Sitka Alaska, worked for the Forest Service. This was when we were in town. When we were out in the field, they paid us to camp in the wilderness. All we did was hike around surveying possible archaeological sites in the way of logging operations. Walking through the Alaskan wilderness, carrying guns in case of bears, watching eagles, seals, wildlife. Then after work, we could fish, or whatever we wanted to. They flew us to isolated areas in little float planes. Sometimes we would take the forest service "yacht" a 56 foot working vessel, piloted by a guy who survived a 1,720 foot tsunami in Lituya Bay in 1958. He told us his story while we were with him. He would set out crabpots and we would eat crab for lunch and dinner. We would also take the small boat along small inlets, into caves via water access, and just cruise around looking at stuff. What a great life!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lituya_Bay
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/19580710/narrative1.htm
Trisha Brasher <
trisha@brasher.com> wrote:
Poor choices? nah....sounds fascinating. Tough, but interesting!
Where in Alaska, and why?
Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
"Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898
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