Yes,
Talking about heading up toward the Penny and the Cripple Rivers which would be west, but you also must go north-west, so my apologies for saying north only and negating to say west. In other words, you can't go west up the beach without also going north, so my bad all the way.
All the best,
Lanny
LOL.... No problem, I lived up there in the early eighties..... Man have things changed. Gone are the days when you could just build a beach cabin and go digging....... Thank's to that idiotic tv show and their lame assed view of reality.
Been up the Nome river the snake and yes the penny and cripple too not to mention anvil crk....... caught fish on a bare hook..... That's one of the big differences of fishing in AK.... You go catchin unlike down here where you go fishin....... One spring a few friends of mine and I went ice fishing on the nome river, we had a healthy supply of yukon jack and of course the bravado it brings....
Well I started over a drift embankment on a corner of the river and suddenly the world dropped out from under me..... I hit about the middle of the river , went in up to about my chest in it....... Man you would have thought I was jesus...... after I hit the bottom I don't think my feet hit the ground again till I was on the other side.... sobered me up right quick I tell ya.
Anyway once I was out of the water I dropped and rolled around in that nice dry cold snow which helped draw the water out of my clothes which by the way were good poly pro long johns and wool outer pants and gear..... in about 15 minutes I was as dry and sober I was when we all left town several hours before..... Later we all had a pretty good laugh about that adventure and the fact that we all made it back to the cabin.
That could have turned out real bad had the water been any deeper and the current on that corner any swifter........
I was much younger then and had the time of my life, lots of good memories, some pretty blurry though...... Long summer days and long dark winter days...... walked out on the bering sea over 2 miles one day to watch some of the natives fish for tom cod through the young ice where a lead had opened up then froze again...... was watching one old guy and was talking to him,
I was on the old ice, the stuff that was 6 feet thick and he was out on the young ice.... Anyway he said come on out it's ok....... well I was a bit leary to say the least due to past experiences but thought aw what the hell... he's out there and he has a good 50 pounds on me so off the old ice I went................. for about 20 feet..............
Salt water ice is different than fresh water ice, it's kind of elastic in a funny way,.... anywho as I was walking I could see the ice undulating under each step.... well I turned my butt around and headed right back to the old think ice.....
That old native guy got a pretty good laugh out of that one. anyway I got to looking at the ice a little closer and decided I would just follow his foot steps out to where he was....
It tuned out all OK and we had a great time talking about the area and the hunting and fishing..... He was a very cool old guy, unfortunately I can't remember his name and I am sure he has gone on his last hunt many years ago.
And last but certainly not least, I would be remiss if I didn't say something about the northern lights...... Those who have seen them now what I mean, For those that have not..... There is really no way to adequately describe such an incredible phenomenon....... Usually they are a ind of glow in the dark green, but I have seen them in red , yellow , blues and purple ..... living curtains of light high above your head like the wind blowing over a field of tall grass, wave after wave, with bursts and spires that you would think hit the ground. But that just won't happen since they occur high in the stratosphere.
Well enough rambling.....
Anyway to the young feller that started this thread..................
I hope ya make it to Nome young man, It will be an experience you you will not soon forget.
