Rained and blew hard from the south here too. We lost all of our snow. It can get this out of it's system, get cold, snow and turn into a good winter!

Supposed to be back around zero here by the weekend.

We havent gotten real warm but sure need the snow. It dumped 6 inches while we were in the mountains but only had a dusting here at the cabin while I was gone. I am hoping to put out the east line before going back into the mountains for a few more days.

Rain here in the Banks. Roads are covered in ice. Like a freshly zammed ice rink. Yuk. Just glad I don't have traps out in this yet.

-TJ

Same thing in the Anchorage area. I'm sure my traps have a solid crust of ice over them. Hopefully, the marten boxes are still working, though.

Everything started to freeze up good so I put the skiff away then it turned warm. No rain yet but 49 degrees yesterday.

Yeah that's weird I saw that Dillingham was 30 below a few days ago thought it must be a mistake or is Dillingham that different weather-wise?

DR:
The longer I'm in Bristol Bay the less I know about what is normal weather. Usually King Salmon/ Dillingham is colder than us but I've seen times when the oppisite was true. Our low so far has been +5 but I don't know what Dillingham has been.

Warm and wet on the slope. Not good for construction materials. 34 today. We had some good snow but its gone the heck now.

monsoon come through kotzebue. the sound has 6 inches of water underneath the snow. i been checking my net and having to drive through the water to get to it. the holes don't have any ice to chop through to get to the net. all water all the time we used 16 totes of de icer to keep the jets coming in and out the past 3 days at the airport. finally had a cancel this evening due to the fog and snow. the caribou are going to suffer this winter....

It's been 29-32° all day today and it's rained, freezing rained, sleeted, snowed and PEED all day. This morning I had to salt the steps to get down them. This afternoon the crunchy substance on top of the sheet of ice made it at least walkable. Whatever it is, it's just not reasonable out there.

Do any of the State or National Parks charge a daily fee to ride a horse in a park in Alaska ? They jacked up the fee to $200 A DAY IN NY !

Got our first 1-1/2" of white stuff last night, but supposed to turn to rain. YUK!

Schools, state buildings, cabs, bus service, all shut down. I went in to work yesterday and was happy when I actually pulled back into my drive after I was sent home as I seriously thought I was not going to make it (almost just parked and walked). Cars were in ditches every where. Even my dentist canceled my appointment.

State facilities closed again today along with schools, and transportation services.

Horses are for riding??? Who knew...I thought they were self propelled sled dog buffets...nothing excites a dog yard like the sound of a chainsaw on a frozen horse, lol.

CB, I doubt there is a fee for riding a horse. A fee for parking in the "maintained" parking lot, probably, but I would imagine that if horses are allowed, there is no fee...

Speaking of horses. I'm not sure where Bearbait was "at" when he was being the caretaker for the lodge and trapping. But didn't he lose some horses then?

The reason I ask, is a buddy was hunting for sheep up in Eastern AK, near the Canadian border, and a nice black horse was seen just meandering around and drinking from the creek. No one else in the country (lots of bears though). He got it on video, because he thought no one would believe him that he saw a horse.

...or could have been a horse that was with the guy that went "walkabout" out that way....did anyone ever hear what happened to that guy?

The guy that owns the lodge up there needs to see the pictures of that horse. Could be a clue to the missing care taker.

Ok, it's not a fox, but this is the catch for today

been raining here all day too ever since yesterday and supposed to rain tomorrow too.