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alaskanpiper

alaskanpiper

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mingc said:
Back in my geo-survey job in '84 in the Brooks Range, we always headed in the opposite direction when we saw a gold claim sign. Covetous greed in the wilderness. Also had problems with competing academic geologists telling us to get off their turf.

Such a cool pipe! Where did the suspended gold thingy come from?

Pipe would also work well if you need a scoop for your elk stew!
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Haha, yeah people protect their claims for sure. Ask @BarrelProof about that, as he laid out above! That's cool that you spent some time here doing geo-survey. I was a surveyor on the North Slope of the Brooks Range for 8 years, there are some really cool old geo monuments up there.

The gold suspended in alumilite rod was sourced from an artisan pen making supplier. Scottie turned it herself to fit it to the pipe.

Hahaha, won't be using it to scoop any elk stew anytime soon. Although I will certainly employ it shortly after consuming some!
 
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alaskanpiper said:
Haha, yeah people protect their claims for sure. Ask @BarrelProof about that, as he laid out above! That's cool that you spent some time here doing geo-survey. I was a surveyor on the North Slope of the Brooks Range for 8 years, there are some really cool old geo monuments up there.
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Kinda reminds me of the Tom Waits bit on The Ballard of Buster Scruggs, if you've seen it, where he plays a prospector who hits a vein.

Cool that you were on the North Slope. I wish I could have spent time there. I was in the foothills nearer to Coldfoot on the Dalton Highway, beating around the willow thickets. The natives, i.e., the mosquitoes, were hostile.

Where in the state are you and @BarrelProof?

On my bucket list is Fairbanks in mid-winter to chase the aurora. Saw it once in the early fall of '84. No color, just a white veil shimmering in the sky. Blew my mind.
 
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mingc said:
Kinda reminds me of the Tom Waits bit on The Ballard of Buster Scruggs, if you've seen it, where he plays a prospector who hits a vein.

Cool that you were on the North Slope. I wish I could have spent time there. I was in the foothills nearer to Coldfoot on the Dalton Highway, beating around the willow thickets. The natives, i.e., the mosquitoes, were hostile.

Where in the state are you and @BarrelProof?

On my bucket list is Fairbanks in mid-winter to chase the aurora. Saw it once in the early fall of '84. No color, just a white veil shimmering in the sky. Blew my mind.
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Hahaha, believe me, better that than the arctic coast my friend. Same mosquitoes, worse weather. But yeah, no thickets is a plus. I'd take the mosquitoes over the dark and cold of winter up there anytime though.

I live in the Knik River valley about an hour north of Anchorage. @BarrelProof isn't far from the same location.

Fairbanks is far from the only place to see the aurora, but it's a good one. When they really go off it is almost a supernatural experience. Greens, Reds, Purples all sweeping in gentle motion, all across the sky. It can feel like they are so close you could touch them and they just flow and sway gracefully. You will want to get as far away from any city or town as you can, as the ambient light from somewhere like Fairbanks will reduce their vividness.

The best I have ever seen was at our moose camp a few years ago. Bellies full of steak, that days moose kill hanging on the pole, cold beer, good whiskey, and good tobacco, standing outside watching them dance. I could have died right there and wouldn't have given a damn.
 
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BarrelProof said:
The lights - not foxes!
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Hahaha, to be fair, I have seen foxes of damn near every color on the slope. Everything from pristine pure white Arctics, to the most rabies ridden mottled brown gray bag of guts imaginable. Most of them planning their next assault on some goons empty work lunch bag in the back of a pickup truck.
 
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