show about alaskan wilderness

larry@stinescorner · Jan 30, 2012

did anyone ever catch the shows about the familys living in homesteads in alaska? I watched three or four episodes,they live on 600 acres in alaska, I thought it was a pretty good show

rick2 in ohio · Jan 30, 2012

i have been wactching it also.i enjoy it but wouldnt want to live in 8 months of winter.pretty interesting how they survive there.
RICK

larry@stinescorner · Jan 30, 2012

I agree,wouldnt want to either,but I liked the way they get ready for it,it seemed pretty true,better than most of the other reality shows

Anonymous-0 · Jan 30, 2012

Caught some of it. I kind of enjoyed it. The only problem is the same problem with all those reality shows. Over dramatization. The one I saw they had to shoot an old milk cow for meat. They carried on for half an hour before they finally did the deed. Gold Rush, Ice road truckers, Deadliest catch American loggers and axe men are all the same way. I like them to a point but they get old. Everything is a disaster waiting to happen.

DoubleR · Jan 30, 2012

I rode my motorcycle from Michigan up through Alaska and back last summer. It was a trip of a lifetime. I rode it up the ice road trucker road, the "Hall Rd", also. Was pretty nice up there during the end of July and first of August other than the rain I encountered everyday. Don't think I would want to be up there now with there record cold winter. It was still nothing like I imagined it to be like though. Seemed pretty normal in the summer and most of the people originated from the lower 48. So allot of the time it just seemed like traveling through the lower 48. Right along with the Walmarts, McDonald's, and Burger Kings, in Fairbanks and Anchorage.

JRSutton · Jan 30, 2012

If you like that, you'll love the movie about/by
dick proenneke "alone in the wilderness".

barnE · Jan 30, 2012

Place I always wanted to go. Guess what? My son went there twice. Came back with 700 or so pounds of fish. Dave

JayinNY · Jan 30, 2012

I saw that pretty good, as fellow below says ones mans wilderness , an alaskan odyssey with dick proenneke is a great book/show

sixtyninegmc · Jan 30, 2012

I don`t get in much TV time, so I have not seen it, do you recall what part of the state it is filmed in? The biggest of the original "homestead" parcels that I know of were half-sections, 320 acres, but there are and were full sections available through the state department of Ag land sales.

Wardner · Jan 31, 2012

My Aunt and Uncle lived on Lower Lake Clark with several other homesteaders for 40 years. The Lake is about 150 miles west of Anchorage. Only way in or out was via an airplane. Aunt Emorene eventually served on the Alaska legislature and had to buy her own airplane.

In the summer they went to Bristol Bay. They had a small salmon cannery that only used glass jars. The product was sold to people in the lower 48 who were sensitive to the linings used in metal cans. Those lining have recently become a big issue in the food processing industry.

Cousin died at age 14 while tending gill-nets by himself nets near Ugashic. Body never recovered. I spent the summer up there several years before.

Bought a motorcycle in Anchorage with the intention of riding it back to MA. Got as far as the Canadian border and it died. Hitched-hiked the rest of the way.

larry@stinescorner · Jan 31, 2012

I saw that ,and read the book,a friend of mine sent for it and loaned it to me,it was great

larry@stinescorner · Jan 31, 2012

it sure was,I saw it ,and read the book,that was a real reality show ,before all the hype ones started

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