Summer is coming to an end and Fall is just around the corner, so that means it’s almost hunting season which means it’s time to get base camp setup for September 1st.
This has been one wet summer for Alaska and I’m getting a bit tired of all the mud, but what can you do except travel on through it and hope to stay a little dry. So Jake, Scott, Glenn and I headed into our moose camp to start getting the tarps up and firewood cut. We always get firewood cut before the season opens so were not spending time or making noise in camp after the first. Plus, it always nice to know there’s lots of firewood available for the camp fire should the weather turn narly and cold.
pictures of everyone in their rain gear hanging up the tarps in base camp to, well, you know, get out of the rain.
It was actually a pretty uneventful day, rode in the rain to camp, worked on camp in the rain, cut firewood in the rain, ate lunch in the rain… What else can I say except we had lots of rain and I was almost temped to stay in camp, start a fire and say the heck with it for the weekend, of course the wife might have been a bit PO’d if I didn’t came back home and since I couldn’t call her, no cell reception, she’d of probable had the army out looking for us.
Although it sounds like I’m complaining, well, actually I guess I was complaining, but it was a good day all in all. We got the camp area covered, firewood cut and stacked and 15 gallons of extra gas in for the ATV’s and 45 gallons of drinking water. Now if my vacation time would just hurry up and get here so I can go and enjoy some wet rainy days under the tarps and next to the fire.
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