I met a guy in October who was working at the Coldfoot camp. Said there was lots of marten around. Likely could be a wolverine somewhere. Expensive way to get one, staying at Coldfoot. Unlikely there's a reasonable cost way tho.

The Gateway Arch is interesting. Union Pacific RR museum there also. Been a while but downtown St. Louis still had some brick streets. Mother grew up in O'Fallon area.

I didn't like that either.

Keith

Quick question, I have castor hanging (almost dry) & I happen to notice I forgot to put the oil sacs into the freezer. Been out for 6 days now. Do you think they'll work & be ok or should I toss them? My other oil sacs are usually in the freezer in 2 days pending how late I'm skinning. Don't want to add a rotten sac when I mix them all together.

TTT

Get with it woman !!!!

I'm workin on the healing up and for sure lookin forward to some NFR!

Sounds like you have had some great hunts. Nice looking rifle.

I started using 1/4” shackles. Found them to be much faster and easier to use than quick links. The ends of my chains have a large lap link, welded shut and often I will anchor by going around a tree/ log dropping a loop of chain through that lap link and then pass the trap through the loop. Hard to picture, perhaps. It is depicted in the Alaska Wolf Trapping Manual from the Alaska Trappers Association.
I also use 1/8” 7x7 cable anchors with a tree lock set up and a simple loop at the other end. I will shackle or quick link that loop to the lap link. If available I prefer to anchor to a springy alder of wrist thickness that provides a bit of bounce. Those cables work past 50 plus foot length with no evidence of coming close to failing, in my experience.

My reason for anchoring solid vs. using drags is we can receive large dumps of snow that would hide any sign of where a drag may have gone.

I try to get most of my materials local at The Kingfisher, but if I cant find what im looking for Redds usually has it. Good hooks are especially hard to find here and theres not a lot of guys in my neck of the woods tying for bones and such. Whatcha tying up?

Looks like you could watch a little tv in there while waiting for that big buck - but maybe that would be getting a bit too comfortable:) You taught me something about solar panels there. Thanks for the info.