Winter Flying

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Hi Jim,

Typically I get sent all over the state on various contracts.

Currently I'm in Dutch Harbor and have been here since late Sept.

PJ

Mighty dark up there, right about now, isn't it? :-)
--
Jim in NC

Actually it's not too bad. Out on Aleutian chain we're so far west that we
have longer days than in Anchorage.

Right now it starts getting dark about 6:30. In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

The good news? In just a few more days the days will begin getting longer
again and before you know it we'll have more day light than you know what to
do with.

PJ

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Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Hi Jim,

Typically I get sent all over the state on various contracts.

Currently I'm in Dutch Harbor and have been here since late Sept.

PJ

Mighty dark up there, right about now, isn't it? :-)
--
Jim in NC

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:04:48 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

Well hell, that's what's happening down here in Vermont!

Corky Scott

Yep, everyone thinks it's dark 24 hours a day up here in the winter time.

I just keep letting most of em think that. It keeps the riff raff out.

PJ

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Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
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"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:04:48 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

Well hell, that's what's happening down here in Vermont!

Corky Scott

It is interesting how we always think of AK as "put the compass on N and
keep going". Cold Bay is a 283 course from here in N Idaho.

Mike
MU-2

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Yep, everyone thinks it's dark 24 hours a day up here in the winter time.

I just keep letting most of em think that. It keeps the riff raff out.

PJ

============================================
Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
============================================

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:04:48 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

Well hell, that's what's happening down here in Vermont!

Corky Scott

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
It is interesting how we always think of AK as "put the compass on N and
keep going". Cold Bay is a 283 course from here in N Idaho.

That's right Mike, and get this. I'm in Dutch Harbor which is about 180
miles S/W of Cold Bay on a heading of 238 degrees and 800 miles from
Anchorage, which is basically in central Alaska.

We're the furthest North and the furthest Western state with more coastline
that the entire lower 48 combined, about 3 times the size of Texas and if
Alaska was placed on top of the lower 48 it would just about cover from the
west coast to the east coast. We have something along the lines of 3
million lakes, and 7000 river systems and Mt McKinley (Denali) at 20,320
feet. Denali park alone is over 6 Million acres.

Some of the best fishing, hunting, climbing, kayaking, skiing, and flying to
be found anywhere in the world.

All this an only a little over 600,00 people in the entire state.

But I wouldn't recommend coming here, it really sucks.

PJ

============================================
Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
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Mike
MU-2

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Yep, everyone thinks it's dark 24 hours a day up here in the winter
time.

I just keep letting most of em think that. It keeps the riff raff out.

PJ

============================================
Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
============================================

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:04:48 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

Well hell, that's what's happening down here in Vermont!

Corky Scott

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message

Some of the best fishing, hunting, climbing, kayaking, skiing, and flying
to
be found anywhere in the world.

All this an only a little over 600,00 people in the entire state.

But I wouldn't recommend coming here, it really sucks.

PJ

My wife wants to go for a visit, some summer, but it would be like a death
penalty if she had to live there.

I think I would love living there, but couldn't say for sure, since I have
never been there. I do like different places, though. We spent a week in
the rain forests of Ecuador, and I loved it. We couldn't be more different
in a lot of ways, but they say that opposites attract!
--
Jim in NC

PJ Hunt wrote:

We're the furthest North and the furthest Western state ....

and the furthest *Eastern* State as well.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message ...
"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
It is interesting how we always think of AK as "put the compass on N and
keep going". Cold Bay is a 283 course from here in N Idaho.

That's right Mike, and get this. I'm in Dutch Harbor which is about 180
miles S/W of Cold Bay on a heading of 238 degrees and 800 miles from
Anchorage, which is basically in central Alaska.

We're the furthest North and the furthest Western state with more coastline
that the entire lower 48 combined, about 3 times the size of Texas and if
Alaska was placed on top of the lower 48 it would just about cover from the
west coast to the east coast. We have something along the lines of 3
million lakes, and 7000 river systems and Mt McKinley (Denali) at 20,320
feet. Denali park alone is over 6 Million acres.

Some of the best fishing, hunting, climbing, kayaking, skiing, and flying to
be found anywhere in the world.

All this an only a little over 600,00 people in the entire state.

But I wouldn't recommend coming here, it really sucks.

PJ

============================================
Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
============================================


Mike
MU-2

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Yep, everyone thinks it's dark 24 hours a day up here in the winter
time.

I just keep letting most of em think that. It keeps the riff raff out.

PJ

============================================
Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
============================================

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:04:48 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

In Anchorage it's getting dark
around 4:30.

Well hell, that's what's happening down here in Vermont!

Corky Scott







I saw the Blue Angles in Anchorage last summer...

Indeed a beautiful state. Some of the biggest flowers I've ever seen in the park there...

"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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All this an only a little over 600,00 people in the entire state.


PJ

600,000 in the winter but close to 2,000,000 in the summer!

Mike
MU-2