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We’ll hear more about their advantures..! https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/skagway daily 0.75 2020-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1582693892855-MGGVF7S5CZ1W4E2FT7QB/Dis+Street+Close.jpg Skagway Downtown Skagway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1582693740743-S2UTWCNTHGP6QES25FR6/Chopper+group.jpg Skagway On a glacier in the mountains behind Skagway. 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We thought that it was grounded out on a gravel bar and therefore stable. We were wrong, wrong, wrong… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579650028880-XXEKL8HKJGD7CUXPEAWZ/Dan+shoots.jpg Bad Berg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579650868859-2EWGT4PEBQKIB459SN8U/Eagle+ice.jpg Bad Berg And this big eagle just seemed to watch it all! https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/king-crab-bonanza daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579720638265-H6NVNPV2H01DGMESSKSW/FT+bow+iced.jpg King Crab Bonanza Ice was a constant problem. 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Not much time to fall asleep in this kind of fishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579812576801-LY62N7SN8ZU7CYPJL8J2/block+rough+H.jpg The Toothpick For us, on deck, it was usually so rough, wet and cold that staying awake was never a problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579809786722-XIQP4BZKA3UIXI8OGHEJ/FT+Ak.jpg The Toothpick Our Crabber, the 104’ Flood Tide, at Akutan, 1971. Part of the land in the distance was used as a sheep ranch… https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/sophia daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579814986069-38IQ3AI5OERIB868B3ZA/Ivory+Sophia.jpg The Princess Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579815425553-9A8D4X4S6EKDZ2LAW2LJ/Sophia+on+reef.jpg The Princess Sophia https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/eskimo-singles daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579816171386-GOX0HW7GRGR7FICVM3U9/shoppers.jpg Eskimo Singles Bulletin Board Eskimo ladies shopping aboard the Expansion or a similar trading vessel, circa 1930. University of Washington Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579816808640-M0UVAZCV0JKVCDBZVXN6/Expansion+at+False+Pass.jpg Eskimo Singles Bulletin Board The Expansion off the dock at False Pass, around 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579818088123-42TQXRJ57WBILJFXBXSJ/Capt+T.jpg Eskimo Singles Bulletin Board Captain Niels Thomsen was one of those creative entrepreneurs that Alaska seems full of. https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/season-end daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579882437238-3WBYHLSOODB9Y4BP0VYI/Season%27s+end.jpg Season's end Off the mouth of the Ugashik River, on the shore of the Bering Sea in Western Alaska: not a very nice place.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579885037021-PPVYCLHD8AYFYU0N3HNV/Ugashik+mountains.jpg Season's end The anchorage at Dago Creek: not much water left when the tide went out..! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579820713989-QJAJFVWS1O3R0X8Q2GF9/Tractor.jpg Season's end Finally, an hour up the river, the tractor waves us onto the trailer. Now all we have to do is put the boat away, get our fish money and get on the airplane! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579820272754-5RSTLKQADZZX35DSVY6Z/BB+bucking.jpg Season's end After a long nasty buck back up the bay to the Naknek River, we just wanted to get the hell off the boat and get home! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579885661663-2GA9AKSVZH39OM6CO79L/Rough+Ballaena+unload.jpg Season's end Unloading in typical rotten weather with the fleet pounding by without slowing down… a good chance to get injured or get your boat dinged up: welcome to Bristol Bay! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579819884931-PUOQLS0L2Y4VDCD9H4M7/matt+picks.jpg Season's end We’d caught our share of salmon; now we just wanted to get paid! https://www.thealaskacompanion.com/herschel daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e13c73d6d86241e20cfa561/1579886373795-9MGVTDCK2WZE44CWHVX5/Whaler+Alexander.jpg Herschel Island Ice was the biggest danger for whalers working in the Alaskan Arctic - even though the ships were built extra heavy, a wind shift at the wrong time could move the ice pack to push in and crush their hulls! 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