wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:18:58 GMT, rw
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Guides don't like the sports to see that stuff. It makes them nervous.


You really are a piece of work, Barnard. How the hell is a guide
going to hide a shotgun? The guides had nothing more than
warm/waterproof clothes, and a landyard containing tippet material,
tools, etc. They had NO guns, believe me. Oh, wait a minute......
they could have been hiding the "stuff" under their hats.

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/Alaska18-Aug04.html

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/Alaska19-Aug04.html

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/Alaska8-Aug04.html

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/Alaska21-Aug04.html

to name a few.....

You were staying in a lodge, right? You weren't camping out on gravel
bars, pitching your tent and storing and cooking your food virtually
right on top of bear sign, right?

Tom, one of the first things Steve at Papa Bear will tell you is not to
store your food in the rafts. If a bear gets into the food you sure
don't want it to wreck the raft. Then you would be really screwed.

Another thing to be careful about is securing your raft when you beach
it. That may seem obvious, and the raft might seem securely beached, but
if the wind comes up or the water rises overnight you could lose it.
Last year one of Steve's parties called in on the sat phone that they'd
lost both of their rafts. Steve's response was, "You mean that you lost
both of MY rafts."

In the meantime they were stranded in the wilderness. I don't know how
it played out. I'm going to ask Steve in August.

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