Finaly The Moment We All Been Waiting For

Finally off in the distance there was bear. The pictures are not that great but they are there. They were about 200 meters away from me. This is only the beginning though. They WILL be closer.

Here is a cruse ship... This ship came in with a CODE RED... which means it is infected with a virus... Well they let the people off the ship and to my tour... I had two lady's coughing the whole time... The really bad thing is, they don't know what the virus is. It could be NORWAK (bad food on the boat) or SWINE.. Well we will see if it passed to me... Scary..

The "People" I Work With

These are the charators i work with. What a bunch of Animals.

I Got Fire'ed

Had you there for a moment, no i didnt get fired but i got paid over time to play with fire. Cant do that in the "Lower 48"!

And here is a cupple of photos of my new friend that I found on the middle of the road. No I did not burn him in the fire im not THAT mean. I picked him up and set him on the moss.

Dinner With The Family

What we did was we looked in the back yard and realized that we had a grill. The grill has not been in use for what seemed like years but we thought we would give it a try. So we went to the store and bought ourselfs some CHEEP meat. I stalked up and have about 5 lbs of meat in the freezer.

We went all out. Meats, veggies, potatos, and sauted mushrooms and onions. All with the family and that one dude that is with Ashley (the blond)
We cannot go threw a meal let alone a day without some sort of mess. You can see that Ashley missed her sallad with the ranch and it splaterd next to her fork.
Well that is the first stake I have ever grilled by myself. I went and did something new (mostly because my dad would have never done it for me, something about the value of meat) I soaked it for a bit in Dr. Pepper. It tasted like a stake, im not going to lie. We all contributed to the making of this dinner, I bought the Mushroomes and got the grill to stay alive.

And what would a dinner blog be without a person that I met on one of my tours? This man and his wife were wearing the same tye of sweat shirts and they are form the surounding Portland area. Not bad people.

The Zip Over Bear Creek

Here we are all strapped to a tree getting ready to zip.
They call this the Indiana bridge. its fairly long and extremely shaky.
Can you handle this mom? Eagle creek is a lot higher up.
I don't know if you can see the end platform, but maybe if you fallow the two cords all the way down the dense woods.
There is Rachel posing for the camera and also there is me. the camera went off without me knowing. not bad of a pick i think.
what do you think? scared face, excited face, or oh man I'm...
I'm really high up!!! Look ma no hands! and only one foot!!!
a little Zip Five before we repel down. A small repel down about 50 feet or so.


end it all with a nice stinky flower called skunk cabbage.

FOOD!!

Ah food, when you are in Alaska do as the... Lower 48 do?? When did that happen??

Looks like Salmon but it is actually eel. Cost me a bit of money but i figured i was making bank and needed to try something new.

So i looked on line for recipes and all i found was salads. well i didn't have any salad material so i looked in the pantry and found some soup. my wheels turned in my head and i became creative.

it wasn't that bad really just tasted like fish... well i bought a chunk of Kangaroo meat when i bought the eel so someday soon i will swallow the fruits of my brothers place with some nice lean red meat!!

A Day At Work

I work in a black bear habitat where there are no rails or cages keeping me or my customers safe. The only thing they(the customers) have is me, a flair, and my pocket knife.
not only do we have trails but so do the bears.
since we only have 3inches to 3 feet of soil before we hit rocks, the nursery logs are a very vital part of our ecosystem.
in select parts of the forest it has been logged twice. once about a hundred years and twice about fifty years ago. this tree is a red alder, it is a pioneer species. it is very vital for the succession of new trees and shrubs because it sucks the nitrogen out of the air and feeds it into the soil. the markings on this tree is from a Red-Breasted Sapsucker.

here we have two of the three main trees in the forest. the one on the left is a sitcka sproose and the one on the right is a western hemlock. you can tell the differences by the bark on the trees. a nice survival fact: that white stuff coming off the sproose tree is a very nice fire starter.

we have about 700 different types of moss in the forest, here in this 6X3 foot aria there are about 10 different types. the moss is good because a lot of it can soak up to 10 times its weight in water. very good for when we have our dry spells.this right here is a Lichen. particularly a lettus leaf lichen. lichens are a fungi and algae working together in harmony. they do not decompose anything but they feed of the oxygen. they can grow year round and they make up 90% of Rain deers' diet in the winter.

here is a long legged hemlock perfect for little critters to make there homes. also good for if you are lost and need to get out of the rain. inside there the rain cant get you but you may come out looking like a rusty nail with all the decomposed material.

this is a territorial marking from a Black Bear. shows you how strong they are.

here is a bit of the water, this is a prime feeding ground for the bears. thousands of fish will come threw here to spawn and the bears will feed on the eggs and brains of the fish. this is why you shouldn't walk off on your own. this one is a small bog they can get hundreds of feet deep and roads disappear in them.
here we have a devils club. very dangerous but very useful too. has cures for cancer and many other things.
here we have my favorite part of the tour. the rain deer! this one is Aurora and she is my favorite. here we have two birds in our rapter center. a great horned owl and a bald eagle. they both have right wing injuries preventing them from flying.
last but not least we have our carver Wane. he is working on a 24 foot totem pole.

well this is the end of the tour. for your benefit i didn't do the whole thing and left about half of it out. if you didn't enjoy yourself just be glad you didn't spend the $85 normal people have to pay. soon the bears will come out so i should have some pictures in the near future.