Jeff Miller wrote:
willi,rw, and chas 's alaska trip interested me enough to spend time
looking at options. alaska has a "public cabin" program that might suit
a group and make the trip even less expensive than the "inexpensive"
rafting/camping trip willi, rw, and chas developed...

http://www.nps.gov/aplic/

anybody tried it? in nc, the only thing i know of is the swan cabin
above santeetlah creek in graham county... $25 a night for 10 in a
primitive camping cabin.

I've heard that these Alaska public cabins are a good deal. It sounds
tempting, but you'd have to get the fishing scoped out ahead of time.
Just because it's Alaska doesn't mean the fishing will be good. You'll
presumably fly in to a lake, and you'll have limited mobility once
you're there. If the fishing sucks right around your cabin, you're screwed.

Float trips offer the advantage of mobility. You can cover 100 miles of
river in a week and a half. On the Kanektok, the fish were very unevenly
distributed. There was no one place on the river where I'd have wanted
to stay for more than a couple of days anyway. We planned a couple of
layover days, but it didn't work out because of weather delays.

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