Backpacking and Dog-sledding in the Alaskan wilderness
We spent every weekend together in the park for the most part. With the unusually high amount of rain fall, we spent most of our time in our tent, learning and growing closer together. It was nice to relish in how easy it was together. Things just flowed and we went with it. I traveled [...]
Meeting people had become very hard to do. My only friend at this point was JoJo at the Thai restaurant. With no reliable way of getting to town and never interacting with other companies, friends were hard to come by. That was, until one fateful day. I had long been using the internet to netwerk [...]
The weeks have been blending together. Not getting off property has been a chore. The feeling of being stuck have been brewing for some time. With all the freedom of not having a vehicle and a house provides, it can be a bit restrictive without a car. I've been growing fonder of doing the tours. [...]
Having the day off, two of my coworkers and I decided to climb Panorama Mountain. I knew I was out of my league and I didn't care. I packed my gear and headed out with them for the day. One was a decent rock climber and the other had summited Denali, they were far more [...]
I spent the day lost in thought, as I trimmed the trees with a pole saw. Music playing in me ear, my mind world's away, drifting from one thought to the next. What do you call home? Home is where the heart is, people say. I think it's a little more than just that. If [...]
My time with my friends had come to an end, I had to go to Denali, to start the next chapter. I worried a bit of how I would get there, I reminded my self that the trail would provide. Deciding on the most trusted form of travel, my sweet legs and my thumb, I [...]
The next week or so went by a little better, Hans was away and three of us were free to run the kennel. Without him Hansing it up it went smoothly. My animosity still grew, but I had a light at the end of the tunnel. My next job would be starting soon and it [...]
I was approached by Hans the other day; he offered me a position for the next season. My response was simple, I know. He wants me to manage the day to day operations of the yurt viewing and dog tours. I knew that too and told him. My only question for him was how much? [...]
By now I had accepted the suck. My frustrations were ever growing due to Hans’s lack of planning. There were no standards, no easy way of doing anything. Donald had started to help me out more knowing what crap I was in. His friend Luke had been doing the same thing I was but he [...]
My first day was spent with Dris from Belgium at the kennel learning the dogs and the routines for the day. The afternoon was over and we went into the mountains to house sit for the night. He was shacked up in a dry cabin for a friend who was away handling on the Yukon [...]
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