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 p.6 #13 · Arctic Models @ 30 below zero! | |
You orginally said Anchorage, now your up to Fairbanks and outside of that area!
It only takes 3 Alaska's to fill the entire United States. Yes Alaska has wolves, but they are not a problem in the greater Anchorage area. Go to the outskirts of this city and you will see, lots more wildlife than in the city itself.
A wolf skin is worth 1,000 bux. and they are few and far to find, here in the Arctic.
Moose, we see them every year in Anchorage, in the city. People avoid them and they do not bother people. (as a general rule).
30 years ago, Anchorage would record or register pehaps maybe one murder per year. Now it is a epidemic. 35 - 45 in a single year. It is getting way out of hand.
Especially the "traffic" from too many cars with an underdeveloped road system for the entire state.
It is still a great place to live, but I much prefer the village life. we have no traffic or any type of gun incidents here, and everyone is loaded to the max with weapons of every type imaginable. Children even have rifles !
Quiet peaceful type life, is what is so attractive about living in the Northern Villages.
that plus the cold crisp clean refreshing air. You would have to "taste" the air up here, it is different from anything you have ever experienced. L.A. is all polution and smog. & millions of people.
Two weeks ago it was 70 below, two days ago it was 20 above zero, much to hot for us. I do not like that type of heat. Today it is below zero by 10 degrees and tommorow is supposed to be much colder, good. Umailiq's are getting ready, to launch their respective crews to go whaling.
Next month, we begin all over again. First step is to cut a trail out to the lead opening.
Although the lead is very far out, perhaps as much as 20 miles here in Barrow, No one goes out, until that lead opens up. Workers work on the trail with pick and axe to blaize a trail for the hondas and snowmachines to carry equimpment out.
But by looking at the sky, you can easily tell when that lead opens, from way back in the village, The ice reflects back to the clouds, and they are all white.
But when the lead opens, the clouds over that open water area, are much darker and it is very easy to see, The water reflects back to the clouds and it is very much darker.
As I said, the Inupiaq Peoples have many tricks that most people do not understand or comprehend.
It took a long time to understand and comprehend what was meant, when people merly looked at the sky and said.. Good, there is open water !! I always wondered, how does he know the ice is open ??
Once you know how to read the sky, Much information can be determined.
These people are far more accurate predicting the weather, than any weather man with all the sophistacted equipment they use.
30 below zero up here, is a wonderful beautiful gorgeous day, you can easily stay outside all day long and not get cold.
NO I don't think you can compare L.A. with Anchorage, no comparison.
today the main concern here in Barrow is / are some people lost, out on the ocean ice. 5 people were lost and well overdue. 3 of those people were found and safely brought back to the village in good health. A man and his two children. Two others are still missing and search and rescue has been out there all night, looking for them. They will never give up until they are located and brought back to the village.
http://majikimaje.com/cpg1410/albums/SEALS2/GUS-NIKSIT.jpg
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Using a "niksit" to snag that seal, once it has been shot, so far out, requires great skill, and "balance". This is a 16 year old boy out here on that ice. Gus Kowanna. I have known him since he was a child him and his older brother Ashley (Unqsii).
The distance he has to throw this is pretty far, and to be that accurate means the difference between going hungry, or having food for the entire family, and some of the "dogs" !!
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They have been found.
We are in constant touch with all villages, during the day, This is one incredibly tight knit vast area. Each and every village is knit together as one, over the huge distances.
Kotzebue = 3,000 people ( 12 more villages surrounding this area)
Kivalina = 125 people
Pt. Hope = 800
Pt. Lay = 250
Wainwright = 650
Barrow = 5,000
That is not very many people for an area twice the size as all of the New England States put together.
http://majikimaje.com/cpg1410/albums/SEALS2/SEAGULL.jpg
Seagulls are virtually non-existent up here, you never see them, until food has been gathered, then they magically appear from out of no where.
The wind in Point Hope is ferocous, violent and ever present.
Ravens seem to enjoy this immensly, for they often "hover" in that wind, then relax, and they go backwards several hundred yards, This is a common sight in the village of Point Hope, birds playing in the wind, flying backwards.
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The North Slope is a huge vast area of they say over 10,000,000 million lakes !
Edited by Majik_Imaje on Feb 24, 2008 at 02:42 PM GMT
Edited on Feb 24, 2008 at 06:42 PM
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