People on their couches back in the suburbs of the lower forty-eight states see television shows and talk about Alaska, often using catch-phrases like “everything’s tougher in Alaska.” While it’s one of the most beautiful and wild places in theworld and certainly a natural wonder in and of itself, until a person has traveled there and experienced the truly untamed wilds of this amazing state, he cannot imagine just how unbelievably wild, beautiful and challenging Alaska truly is. When Robert Bradley, Chuck Kirk and I took a hunting trip to Alaska ten years ago in an attempt to do something no-one else had yet accomplished, even experienced, well-traveled hunters and outdoorsmen like us had no idea of the challenges we would face and the amazing experiences we would take away from our Alaskan hunting adventure.
When traveling to Alaska by plane, it’s amazing how the deeper into the state you get, the smaller the planes shrink. By the time we approached our camp, which was literally in the middle of nowhere deep in the wilds of the state that is fully one-fifth the size of the entire continental United States and well over two times bigger than Texas, we were already in a small plane but we weren’t done yet. When we decided to fly even deeper into the wilderness in an attempt to float and hunt a river that had never been floated before, we crammed ourselves and our massive pile of gear into an even smaller plane to reach it. In the hopes of floating the as-yet un-floated, practically unexplored river, we had purchased two rafts and the device that would practically save our lives later, a small motor. The closest the small plane could land us to the river we selected was a mountaintop over a mile away. It looked a lot closer from the air. Not only were we dropped off a mile from the river we intended to float, hunt and fish our way down, but we were a full seventy miles from our pick-up. Read More !

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