I haven't had time to do this yet as its been a busy fall, but things are starting to slow down. I figured its a quiet night, might as well get started.
A couple of buddys and I hatched this plan 2 years ago while archery elk hunting in a Montana wilderness area sitting on a hillside glassing. While sitting there glassing, I said, ya know what I have always wanted to do...........and things spiraled out of control from there..
My main research was word of mouth and of course the internet. We knew we wanted to go to Alaska and we wanted a combo moose/caribou float hunt. Our original plan was to be in the field for 3 weeks, but we eventually backed that off to 16 days. We chose a river on the south side of the Brooks range which I won't name.
We worked out the basics but didn't start any real planning until Oct 2012, that's when the air taxi started taking reservations. After January the planning and logistics became a weekly and then daily process. Lots of phone calls as one of my hunting partners in from Tenn. and the other is from Montana.
The trip kept growing as I decided to drive the gear to Fairbanks, with my partners send their gear to me via UPS. So I convinced my wife that we might as well make this a vacation for the two of us and she could fly home from Fairbanks. She didn't know what she was in for
Its 2400 miles one way.
Through the summer I worked on my rowing, and getting gear ready to go.
My wife and I were on the road the last day of August.
We left pretty early in the morning, flew through customs with no issues and saw a band of Bighorns maybe 3 hours into Canada. We drove about 10 hours on day 1 and stayed the 1st night out of the back of the truck. I have a bunk with a futon mattress in the truck, gear storage under the bunk and gear in the trailer along with a generator and chest freezer.
More to come....
