Pete's Alaska... a look at some of my life and adventures in Alaska #1

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It seems there is some interest in travel too and life in Alaska so I will in the coming weeks and months dig threw some of the hundreds of feet of footage of video shot while I lived there and tray and edit some short and a couple longer videos for those interested in America's last frontier. None will be Hollywood quality but you see will have been shot by either myself or my son. It will cover everything from driving different roads in the state to fishing adventures to my time building my and others homes in the wilderness of Alaska. From time to time I have in mind to also do just a posting of photographs but we will see if first there is any interest.

This first short 59 second video is a compilation of my first visit to the state
when I was working on my son's women in the Alaska outdoors series.


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Pete, I would love to see more of your pictures and videos, Alaska is beautiful and I was lucky enough to drive there when I was young with my husband and do some camping and fishing. The footage of the moose in your video was very nice! I don't remember all the names of the places we went to, wished I would have kept a journal like you did. I only had a tiny instant camera, the kind where you wave it in the air while the photo is drying, many of those just faded over time. Always loved to see any pictures or footage online of America's last frontier. :cool:
 
Very nice footage Pete. I love the snow scenes especially. I love snow in general but don't like to go out when it's too cold. :)
 
hollydolly said:
Fabulous Video.... but I don't understand ''working on my son's women''... ;)
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NO... not what you think 'hollydolly'.
My son owns a video production company, ieba communications, and signed a deal with either dish or direct TV I don't remember to produce an 8 episode series about women in the wilderness. Specifically women learning new outdoor activities they have never done while they experience those activities in Alaska. We shot the series across the state from May to September 1995, and it included activities like river rafting, glacier climbing, dog sledding, back country camping in Denali and Hiking the Brooks range in Northern Alaska near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR. My son talked me into coming because I was suffering from depression caused by the deaths of my wife and both parents withing 10 months and on the shoot merely acted as a gofer.

You can't see me clearly in this photo taken on our dog sledding shoot
but I'm the guy closest to the plane holding a camera and have on a purple shirt.
It was high summer so we had to fly an entire dog team up to a 10,000 ft caldera in the Wrangell mountains.

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SeaBreeze said:
The footage of the moose in your video was very nice!
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Hope your not a vegetarian because that moose became not only dinner for the winter but a trophy for a client we guided. Later on I may post the footage of the hunt if I can find the right category to post it in. A fellow guide, Rose, and I were flown into the lake to set up camp and scout out locations where there was moose activity for the clients who would arrive later. We were at the far end of the lake when like a submarine that moose's antlers rose up along side of the raft we were in. *The moose love the plant life in the lakes and will have there heads under water for extended periods of time eating the water logged plants.

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This is a frame capture from that video
of a that bull moose

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While drinking my morning coffee at my cabin
I was visited by this cow moose

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Ruthanne said:
Very nice footage Pete. I love the snow scenes especially. I love snow in general but don't like to go out when it's too cold. :)
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That's funny because when we came back to the lodge after the shoot we all had rather intense sunburn! It was the end of July and when your on a snow covered mountain the reflection from the snow intensifies that glare and thus sunburn. If cold is not your thing then maybe a cruise to the inside passage in the summer would give you a taste of what Alaska has to offer. Where I live in Northern Alaska -20 temperatures in winter were common, in fact when I talked with my daughter in Fairbanks yesterday it was -3 out at my cabin.


Then again in Fairbanks it gets quite "cool" in the winter

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Pete said:
Hope your not a vegetarian because that moose became not only dinner for the winter but a trophy for a client we guided. Later on I may post the footage of the hunt if I can find the right category to post it in. A fellow guide, Rose, and I were flown into the lake to set up camp and scout out locations where there was moose activity for the clients who would arrive later. We were at the far end of the lake when like a submarine that moose's antlers rose up along side of the raft we were in. *The moose love the plant life in the lakes and will have there heads under water for extended periods of time eating the water logged plants.
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No Pete, I'm not a vegetarian and I've never tasted moose, I'm sure it's delicious because of the kinds of things they eat. Good that you had food for the winter and a trophy was kept of that beautiful animal. We've seen a lot of moose in various locations while camping in the US, Canada and Alaska, always a thrill so see although we're not hunters.

This is the category here for Outdoors, to post anything about hunting experiences if you'd ever like to share your footage with us. https://www.seniorforums.com/forumdisplay.php/54-Outdoors
 

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