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Old 03-08-2010, 12:48 AM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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This is a site that many may enjoy reading though.

It belongs to a friend of mine that lives a bit over a hundred air miles or so from the nearest road. He hiked in with his son some couple of dozen years ago and built a home in the wilderness.

He traps, hunts and gardens for his lifestyle and his wife's.

www.osemountain.com

I will be headed back that direction this spring when the snow is off his runway.

He has access to the world now though satellite Internet and TV. Pretty neat place he has built up there.

Like to hear comments.
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Old 03-08-2010, 02:01 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, California
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This is a site that many may enjoy reading though.

It belongs to a friend of mine that lives a bit over a hundred air miles or so from the nearest road. He hiked in with his son some couple of dozen years ago and built a home in the wilderness.

He traps, hunts and gardens for his lifestyle and his wife's.

www.osemountain.com

I will be headed back that direction this spring when the snow is off his runway.

He has access to the world now though satellite Internet and TV. Pretty neat place he has built up there.

Like to hear comments.
The first thing I would tell the guy is: INCREASE your font size, dude (it is free these days).
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Old 03-08-2010, 02:57 AM
 
Location: 29 palms ca
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that is great, i am currently on page 7, and i am loving it.
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Old 03-08-2010, 05:16 AM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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The first thing I would tell the guy is: INCREASE your font size, dude (it is free these days).
hold down CTRL and the + key! he has satellite smaller is better!
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Old 03-08-2010, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Palmer
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Great!

Read right through it.
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Old 03-08-2010, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Dwain will have his gas flown in once or twice a year. There is a small group of people that live on a lake a bunch of miles away and a DC-4 will land on the lake after they clear the snow for it to land on the ice. They share the cost for the plane which brings in everything from gas to food. The cost of the plane is something like $10,000.00 plus the cost of the supplies. But it can bring in tons of gear at one time.

Normally, he use to run his snow machine all the way into Nenana (100 miles+-) to pick up gear. He has the same snowmachines that I have, the Arctic Cat Bear Cat Wide Tracks with a four stoke engine, they get about twenty miles per older two stokes machines get about half or a third of that mileage.

A friend of ours took his D-6 dozer our there a few years ago after getting a mountain of paperwork permits to clear the lake for the supply plane, and he went and made a runway on top of Ose Mountain about 1500' long, otherwise he had to walk about four miles to a smaller lake where the float plane could bring him supplies, he did get a four wheeler that saved him a lot of work, but the runway is just above the house by about 1/4 mile and is a lot easier for access.

My cabin is about 40 miles out on the same winter trail that he uses to get to his place. Since this forest fires went though the area this summer, the trail is pretty much blocked to use that trail and another rougher trail is used for access, so sometime this week, I should have the permits to bring my dozer out and open those trails back up. Will take photos and post them of the trip.

These are photos of their mountain top runway, note the "Stipes", he put sawdust on the runway to make them look big time! The last photo is him at the runway meeting the plane.

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Old 03-08-2010, 12:01 PM
 
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Mark, this is great stuff. Can't wait to read it from home since some of the pics are getting blocked by the firewall here though.
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Old 03-08-2010, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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I guess there is a show being put together about his getting there and building the place, should be good, haven't seen any of the short versions of it yet but will post the links when I get them.

Update: Well as soon as I posted this, I got an email from Duaine and he sent me the site for the video... If you can put up with a few seconds of ads, the video is pretty good.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/s142...html?cat=10546

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Old 03-08-2010, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Here are a few more photos that Duane sent me.

Pictures of his runway and planes coming and going, aerial of his house and view of Mt. McKinley from his yard.


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Old 03-08-2010, 01:43 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Starlite9...I really appreciate the aerial shots you post. Hope next year to actually fly around an see Alaska. From the air is even more breathtaking! thanks
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