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Fur Coats?

dzalphakilo said:
By the way, unless you have a topo with you, a compass is going to be very limited on what you can do.
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I use a compass all the time and it works great...East, West, North and South and all the points between...

A topo is good if you have a basic idea where you are at in the first place, and someone was already there and drew it out... A compass can take you around the World...

The GPS just spoils everyone...
 
dzalphakilo said:
Nice view, remember it well. You can have the winters though. Hope the sheep don't too scared when you come around:D

P.S I can throw barbs back as long as you would like.
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Remember? Cold winters? Sheep!!???

Now you are going to tell me you have "Pet" names for the sheep????

I don't think you want to throw too many barbs....:poke:
 
fogtender said:
A topo is good if you have a basic idea where you are at in the first place, and someone was already there and drew it out... A compass can take you around the World...
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You don't have to have a clue where you're at if you have a topo and compass. Just need to make sure you have some vantage points of the surrounding area to make sense of it quicker. Would take time, but you'd be able to locate you position in due time and take if from there.
 
fogtender said:
The GPS just spoils everyone...
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Amen to that but they are nice to have. I have one in my boat along with a compass for backup. A GPS is like a calculator. If you can't do math or read a compass your screwed if the battery goes dead. Where in the world are we now, lost.
 
fogtender said:
Remember? Cold winters? Sheep!!???

Now you are going to tell me you have "Pet" names for the sheep????

I don't think you want to throw too many barbs....:poke:
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Yeah, why not?

And I'm sure when you told that statie that you were only helping those sheep over the fence, he believed you:poke:
 
JimR said:
Amen to that but they are nice to have. I have one in my boat along with a compass for backup. A GPS is like a calculator. If you can't do math or read a compass your screwed if the battery goes dead. Where in the world are we now, lost.
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I use the GPS in the plane when I see something that is of interest, I can mark it and go back in the winter on snowmachine and check it out, takes any of the old map marking out of the loop.

The GPS makes my flying a lot easier when you don't have to do as much navigation on longer trips, just click and go... But if the batteries/electrial goes out, you have a compass to go by for backup and the charts for backup (topo's).

In most aviation circles, the term IFR means Instrument Flight Rules, here in Alaska, alot of times it means IFR, I Follow Rivers, they all lead to a bigger one...
 
fogtender said:
Geezzzeee, you sure got Sheep on the mind... and what would you use the fence for? Most people open the gate....:pat:
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Well the question is why didn't you open the gate. I'm not the one who got written up for acts against nature:D

Don't blame me that I don't need to go to the family reunions to meet a chick:yum:
 
dzalphakilo said:
Well the question is why didn't you open the gate. I'm not the one who got written up for acts against nature:D

Don't blame me that I don't need to go to the family reunions to meet a chick:yum:
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Well to get a sheep here, you would prob. have to bring it with you, is that how you met them? .... totally out of my league of expertice.

We have Mountain Goats and Dall Sheep, but they hang out in higher places than I care to visit....

Why would you think you don't need to go to family reunion anymore to meet chicks? Not a concept I ever even thought about to meet women, too many would be related to me...strange one that is.... is that a normal custom from where you are at?
 
fogtender said:
In most aviation circles, the term IFR means Instrument Flight Rules, here in Alaska, alot of times it means IFR, I Follow Rivers, they all lead to a bigger one...
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I've heard that saying before. Especially if you are lost. Follow the river downstream to civilization.
 
fogtender said:
Why would you think you don't need to go to family reunion anymore to meet chicks? Not a concept I ever even thought about to meet women, too many would be related to me...strange one that is.... is that a normal custom from where you are at?
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I just figured being out in the sticks in West Virginia wouldn't be any different that being in the sticks in Alaska.

Online from Thailand?
 
JimR said:
I've heard that saying before. Especially if you are lost. Follow the river downstream to civilization.
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Well it applies here, just not a lot of civilization at the end of the rivers in a lot of cases, just a place to land if all goes well....

When flyiing, you can get caught in some bad weather and have everything close in on you before you can get out of it. Sometimes if you see a ridge, you know that "Most" have a creek bed running down the valley so if you follow the ridge, and you can drop down to see it. That is only as a last ditch effort, in my experiance, "most ridges" have way too much "Cumlious Granite" (rocks in the clouds) lining them that needs to be avoided at all costs, and they are directly in your flight path in direct proportion to how badly you need to get out of the weather....

North of the Alaska Range, where Denali National Park is at, and all the rivers South of the Brooks Range, flow into the Yukon and most of the towns (of a few hundred people at best) along there, you will miss if you blink too long...
 
fogtender said:
Well it applies here, just not a lot of civilization at the end of the rivers in a lot of cases, just a place to land if all goes well....

When flyiing, you can get caught in some bad weather and have everything close in on you before you can get out of it. Sometimes if you see a ridge, you know that "Most" have a creek bed running down the valley so if you follow the ridge, and you can drop down to see it. That is only as a last ditch effort, in my experiance, "most ridges" have way too much "Cumlious Granite" (rocks in the clouds) lining them that needs to be avoided at all costs, and they are directly in your flight path in direct proportion to how badly you need to get out of the weather....

North of the Alaska Range, where Denali National Park is at, and all the rivers South of the Brooks Range, flow into the Yukon and most of the towns (of a few hundred people at best) along there, you will miss if you blink too long...
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I've looked at maps of Alaska before. You are very sparesly populated up there inland.
 
JimR said:
I've looked at maps of Alaska before. You are very sparesly populated up there inland.
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Well there is about 12 families that live in the general area that I am at, if you go East or West, you can be a few hundred miles before you reach a town of more than a few dozen.... no roads, you either use the river system, walk, dogsled, snowmachine or you fly....

Going North, Fairbanks is North about eighty miles and Anchorage is about three hundred to the South, with not a lot in between once you leave the Highway...
 
fogtender said:
Well there is about 12 families that live in the general area that I am at, if you go East or West, you can be a few hundred miles before you reach a town of more than a few dozen.... no roads, you either use the river system, walk, dogsled, snowmachine or you fly....

Going North, Fairbanks is North about eighty miles and Anchorage is about three hundred to the South, with not a lot in between once you leave the Highway...
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It must be awful quiet up there. :thumb:
 
This thread has sort of died down, so I thought I might add this little tidbit of information that I received today. It was the 2007 United States census of Agriculture.

It lists cattle and calves, sheep and lambs, poultry which includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, emus, geese, ostriches, pheasants, pigeons, quail and other poultry which would include bantams, chukkas, guineas, rheas and peacocks, bees, horses and ponies, mules, burros and donkeys, milk goats, angora goats, alpacas, llamas, bison, deer, elk, rabbits, and mink.

It just shows you what a variety of animals that are raised and used in this country. I have tasted some of the above varieties. At one point in time I even had a pair of wildebeest boots. I do not believe that they were farm raised. :poke:
 
There is an Alpaca farm about 10 miles from me that I paid a visit to about two months ago. I wanted to see what was involved in raising them and wanted to see what they were like. What an impressive place to visit. The guy had about 15 animals. They were free to roam around the fenced in fields. I hope to buy a pair of them some day for the old farm I'm wokring on for my daughter.
 
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