Could you?
04-16-2008, 08:55 AM
#61
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Wadena, MN
Posts: 4,701
RE: Could you?
ORIGINAL: KodiakArcher
I think the coldest I saw it this winter was about +15F and it typically bounces back and forth between 20 and 35 all winter. We did have an exceptional snow load this year; I had to shovel twice! The ocean keeps things pretty moderate along the coast. People forget that AK is a huge state with a lot of climate variation. But we do only get about 5 hours of light in the dead of winter.
I think the coldest I saw it this winter was about +15F and it typically bounces back and forth between 20 and 35 all winter. We did have an exceptional snow load this year; I had to shovel twice! The ocean keeps things pretty moderate along the coast. People forget that AK is a huge state with a lot of climate variation. But we do only get about 5 hours of light in the dead of winter.
Isnt Fairbanks 5-6 hrs off the coast? Yes Fairbanks had -40 and worse. I have never seen -40 here.
04-16-2008, 02:48 PM
#63
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: Could you?
I'll go the other way......
I wouldn't knowingly give up whitetail hunting......even if they said that was the only animal I could hunt from now on.....no matter where that was.
Ilove it that much.
I wouldn't knowingly give up whitetail hunting......even if they said that was the only animal I could hunt from now on.....no matter where that was.
Ilove it that much.
04-16-2008, 02:57 PM
#64
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Could you?
GMMAT---I LOVE whitetail hunting, it is what I dream of on a daily basis. But to live in Alaska, and to be able to walk right out your backdoor into the least pressured habitat/most wildlife abundant soil in the US.....now that is a tough offer to refuse.
04-16-2008, 05:41 PM
#65
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: Could you?
ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
... to be able to walk right out your backdoor into the least pressured habitat/most wildlife abundant soil in the US.....now that is a tough offer to refuse.
... to be able to walk right out your backdoor into the least pressured habitat/most wildlife abundant soil in the US.....now that is a tough offer to refuse.
Now that's funny stuff! There's a whole lot of barren wilderness without a living or breathing mammal to be seen for hundreds of miles. Game densities in VA are probably multitudes higher than any given place in AK of the same size. It's just that we get a larger variety of game, and a lot of it has never even seen a human.
