Sure they are legal as long as they have the instrumentation and a qualified pilot. So would a cub be under those same conditions.

But I don't like single engine IFR unless it's an emergency. Even more than that I completely mistrust the Caravan. I refuse to get in one.

I know that stretch between Holy Cross and Aniak. Its all flat with no terrain to run into. But there's no horizon either, in those conditions, and the Yukon is behind you, so no river to follow.

All you have is the GPS, ADF etc. None of those will do you any good when that flawed plane quits you.

I have to say I was a bit nervous. And kept watching the pilots for cues of being nervous. Was glad when we came down out of it and the land showed again near the airport.

Yep. We've all been there too many times

Couple pics from today.

My brother in law and I flew to Fog Lake to do a little prospecting and came across this fellows track,30 Gibbs for comparison.

Well I convinced myself it was too warm and I needed to check my 12 sets after a 48 hour soak and found these waiting for me
Here is the before shot

And today

And one of my marten sets connected but not what I really wanted this early pretty black on the hide side yet. I was still tickled back foot pad catch had to walk the pole to get in it

Covered some ground today checking out the sign, quite a bit lynx and fox tracks. Not as much rabbit tracks as i hoped to see. We may be on the decline. Made 4 calling stands through out the day. No takers jus some ravens, gray jays and woke up two owls :-)
Last week i got a tip on some wolves below town. Decided not to set for them. Folks still hauling firwood there. Bummer should have, around 6 wolves came back and covered the islands below town. I couldn't find if they got a kill. Next time down i'll bring some traps and snares along. Foxpro worked great to -25 below. Bringing my double gun case next time incase i see the wolves around. I tried howling but no response, looks like they passed through late lastnight sometime.

Nice catches otterman! How prime is the otter?

Woo hoo Todd! Man, nearly bare ground!

Hope you get those wolves YT!

Pretty nice grab on that fox. Looks like he must have been a few feet off the ground when he was caught, I guess they do climb sometimes!

Actually I guess he would have been 4 feet off the ground if he was on that pole!

Groa, The otter was close but not fully prime. She didn't seem very healthy very skinny for this time of year living all alone in an abandon beaver house looked like she had been holed up there for some time.
Smalltime ya she was right at 4 feet off the ground when she hit the pan maybe a tad less. Nice big healthy female.
AKnative it is bare ground just a skiff of stuff that was freezing rain at the house but 10 miles out the road it turned to that misty snow stuff and stuck. My other sets closer in were all bare ground. Raining here now so probably snow up there closer to the lake.

Man that's miserable!

Fur back from Moyles, was a LONG wait, but they did an incredible job as always.

Nice color on that gulo !!

Thanks Ken, now I need to reshape it to hang on the wall. AKpawpincher how do you reshape them again?

FIsh, mist lightly with water fur in put back on the stretcher for a few hours to dry

Wondering what is up with Moyles. No panic, but two bears and a beav that we sent in in May, got a notice that the blackie was done three weeks ago, but no brownie, and no beav?

Man they must be doing a lot of fur to have such a long turn around time.

alaska viking, Moyle had a piece of equipment break on there beaver processing line and it took them quite some time to get it fixed all there beaver are late this year. I can't say on the brown bear but know that's why my beaver they got in April just got to 10 days or so ago. I believe they hope to have things caught up soon and be back to turning beaver in around 90-120 days. They are still a whole lot faster than any other place I have tried.