Winter Flying

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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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

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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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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

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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

"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.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

PJ Hunt wrote:

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


and the furthest *Eastern* State as well.


And Red too.

"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
...
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
...
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
...
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

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 22:26:44 in message ,
PJ Hunt wrote:
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.

According to the Times World Atlas (it just happened to be handy!):

USA 3,614,170 sq miles 100%
Alaska 570,680 sq miles 15.79%
Texas 261,950 sq miles 7.25%
California 156,260 sq miles 4,32%
Montana 145,350 sq miles 4.02%
New Mexico 121,300 sq miles 3.36%

Alaska is VERY BIG but not quite that big. Equivalent to Texas,
California and Montana combined.

I don't think there is any standard way of measuring coastlines? I
presume your 'coverage' includes the long line of the Aleutian Islands?
--
David CL Francis

David CL Francis wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 22:26:44 in message ,
According to the Times World Atlas (it just happened to be handy!):

USA 3,614,170 sq miles 100%
Alaska 570,680 sq miles 15.79%
Texas 261,950 sq miles 7.25%
California 156,260 sq miles 4,32%
Montana 145,350 sq miles 4.02%
New Mexico 121,300 sq miles 3.36%

Alaska is VERY BIG but not quite that big. Equivalent to Texas,
California and Montana combined.

A friend of mine put it in a different way:
When Alaska became a state the Texans were quite 'displeased', because they
weren't the largest state any more. Luckily Alaska wasn't split in two equal
pieces, because then Texas would have been only number 3 and then the Texans
would have been really ****ed.

jue

"David CL Francis" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 22:26:44 in message , PJ Hunt wrote:
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.

According to the Times World Atlas (it just happened to be handy!):

USA 3,614,170 sq miles 100%
Alaska 570,680 sq miles 15.79%
Texas 261,950 sq miles 7.25%
California 156,260 sq miles 4,32%
Montana 145,350 sq miles 4.02%
New Mexico 121,300 sq miles 3.36%

Alaska is VERY BIG but not quite that big. Equivalent to Texas, California and Montana combined.

I don't think there is any standard way of measuring coastlines? I presume your 'coverage' includes the long line of
the Aleutian Islands?
--
David CL Francis


Those numbers are land mass. I saw an overlay somewhere that had the main body of AK along the eastern seaboard, and the
Aleutians swung all the way out almost to California...