acmckeage03
Lil-Rokslider
Wow, there are so many words needed to describe our incredible trip but we'll leave it at that for now. This post is going to contain trip story and pics and a thorough gear review. This was my first trip to Alaska and my first time spending more than 3 days living out of a backpack, everything went damn near perfect and I thank my fellow Roksliders for helping get there!
Story time...
Travel Day- Alaska Airlines is very gracious with their military travel 5 bags up to 70 lbs so we packed a double bow case, double rifle case, our gear went into two 150qt coolers and we took our packs as carry-ons.
Good Bye's to the family. Off to Anchorage. Third hunter Ben our local resident picked us up at 1am and off to his house for a few hours of rest.
Day 1- Loaded up early we were on our way to pick up locking tags from Alaska Game and Fish. Headed to Alaska Outdoor Gear Rental for our tent and SAT Phone. One last breakfast before heading to Meekin's Air Service.
Once we arrived at Meekin's we started our paper work and readied our bags for the flight in.
Without much delay and good weather we were headed to our hunt location with Mike and Matt in the 185's! What an incredible flight! As many of you know just cant describe the beauty of those mountains... We landed about 45 mins later down on the Talkeetna river. Without any delay we had our bags out on the runway said our goodbye's and watched our two awesome pilots fly away. We were excited to set up camp and do a little research of our new home for the next 8 days. A bunch of sheep, 2 Sow Grizz with two cubs each, and a stud caribou across the river in unit 13. We were overwhelmed with excitement to say the least. We checked zero on our rifles, made dinner and headed off to bed for our first day of hunting.
Story time...
Travel Day- Alaska Airlines is very gracious with their military travel 5 bags up to 70 lbs so we packed a double bow case, double rifle case, our gear went into two 150qt coolers and we took our packs as carry-ons.
Day 1- Loaded up early we were on our way to pick up locking tags from Alaska Game and Fish. Headed to Alaska Outdoor Gear Rental for our tent and SAT Phone. One last breakfast before heading to Meekin's Air Service.