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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: July 2012
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Floating Zombie River Otters. Idea, after all – and we finished the rest of the tour without incident. I left one of the other guides to put my boat away, and immediately went to shower and wash my clothes. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Alaska, United States. An Alaskan resident, and semi-nomadic tour guide.
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: December 2012
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Monday, December 10, 2012. Things They Don't Tell You About Winter in Alaska. You already knew about the months of limited daylight, the sub-zero windchill, and the 8-10 feet of snow. Here's what they don't tell you about winter in the 49th state. Resurrection Bay, Seward. Doorknobs, pets, children, iPods…. Your car needs winter gear, too - except gear...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: June 2012
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Saturday, June 16, 2012. Pissed-Off Loons and Porcupine Renovations. It’s the middle of June, only a week until the solstice, and we are still running our main glacier hiking trip as a snowshoeing outing. We’re more or less creating an ad hoc snowshoe trail out of some snow-covered creek drainages. I am anticipating a bleak period where the snow is too...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: January 2014
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Sunday, January 12, 2014. For most of November and December of this winter, I’ve been in West Virginia, and back working at the Wine Shop as a way to make some extra money while still staying close enough to help out my mother recover from her hip replacement last month. And it’s mutual. Mostly.). Earlier in December, I went on break, and sat down at a...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: August 2012
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Friday, August 31, 2012. Last week I ended up going to Seward to get a tooth looked at, which fortunately turned out to be fine. I was in town for just over 16 hours, and went back to the Iceberg Lodge a day early because of the atrocious marine forecast for the following day. Also, those winds speeds are enough to turn ordinary beach sand into weaponi...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: Adventures in Alaskan Car Ownership
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Thursday, February 20, 2014. Adventures in Alaskan Car Ownership. I am back in Alaska, after having been gone for most of the winter. Alaska, the hussy that she is, welcomed me back with a nasty head cold, negative windchill, and a broken-down car. Missed you, too. Maybe I should have stayed away longer. Looking north across the frozen Kenai Lake.
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: February 2014
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Thursday, February 20, 2014. Adventures in Alaskan Car Ownership. I am back in Alaska, after having been gone for most of the winter. Alaska, the hussy that she is, welcomed me back with a nasty head cold, negative windchill, and a broken-down car. Missed you, too. Maybe I should have stayed away longer. Looking north across the frozen Kenai Lake.
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: Windblown in Aialik Bay
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Sunday, October 13, 2013. Windblown in Aialik Bay. For boats equipped with sails, wind on the ocean can be a wonderful thing. For boats that do not have sails, wind (especially a lot of it at once) can be one of the most tricky things we deal with. A lone kayak on Aialik Bay. After about a mile, the group came to the southern tip of a small island, and...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: March 2014
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Monday, March 10, 2014. Twenty-three sat phones, sixty-nine SPOT trackers, and thirty-two jars of mayonnaise. That's sixty-nine humans, actually. The dog count for the race is somewhere north of a thousand. Sixteen dogs per team, times almost seventy teams is… a lot of dogs. Lake Hood, Anchorage, as seen from behind the Millennium Hotel. And he is raci...
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist: The Wine Trenches
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Notes from an Accidental Naturalist. Notes on life as an Alaskan tour guide, from someone who never thought she would actually be doing this for a living. Sunday, January 12, 2014. For most of November and December of this winter, I’ve been in West Virginia, and back working at the Wine Shop as a way to make some extra money while still staying close enough to help out my mother recover from her hip replacement last month. And it’s mutual. Mostly.). Earlier in December, I went on break, and sat down at a...
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