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Many AIRE Cougar catarafts have a flat frame with a raised seat bar. Does anybody have an AIRE Cougar, with the 17 or 18 inch "double wide" tubes, that uses a 4 or 5 INCH DROP-DOWN FRAME? AIRE Leopard catarafts, with their 26.5 inch tubes, use a drop-down frame with the center area dropped...

I need some guidance concerning a float that some friends are considering and asked me to go along with them. Not sure if they actually want me to tag along. Some of these guys have suggested floating down the Nelchina River from the Glen Hwy to Tazlina Lake. Then paddling north-east along the...

DNR Guide Concession Program Alaska Guides and interested forum members, The Alaska Dept of Natural Resources has updated their website for the upcoming, projected Guide Concession Program (GCP). This GCP was a hot topic when originally proposed back in 2009. A lot of stuff has changed since...

...See how long this lasts...<wink> THE CA/TX COYOTE (...or AK wolf... ) CALIFORNIA: The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor. 1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon...

A little Monday mporning wakeup lesson... The Dead Cow Lecture This is the best example for paying attention that I have ever heard. __________________________________________________ First-year students at the Purdue Vet School were attending their first anatomy class with a real dead cow...

10/23/2011 I put another AIRE raft away today. The only boat left inflated on my trailer is an 18 Foot cataraft with a 9.9 motor. I'm considering one last three day float on Oct 28th, 29th, 30th before serious winter weather ends this fine fall season. Can anybody provide a recent "Got Fish"...

I have lived in Anchorage for more than 20 years, hiked many hundreds of times on the Anchorage hillside trail system, and had the greatest hike of my life on Sunday, Sept 18th. I had just returned home on Saturday evening, Sept 17, from conducting guided brown bear hunts out in western Alaska...

With the opening of red salmon, rainbow trout, and dolly darden char fishing this weekend, the Kenai River sure had an increase in rafting and boating traffic. But did anybody catch any, or many fish of any species????????? I did poorly. I'll admit that I am a poor salmon fisherman, but I...

I took out a new AIRE Super Duper Puma raft on the upper 11 miles of the Kenai River on Saturday, from the Kenai Lake Bridge down river to Jims Landing. Although the recent rains and snowmelt water had the rivers level a few inches above many of the gravel bars that are routinely exposed, the...

Winter in Alaska sucks, rafting somewhere warm does not. On 2/12/10 forum member Mark Oathout posted a thread about his sensational trip to Costa Rica that included several days of beautiful clear water rafting on a few different rivers. While I have rafted all over Alaska, his remarkable trip...

Well, this question does not involve hiking here in the great white north, but here goes.... I am considering taking some time to return to the southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah) for a few weeks, sometime soon. As a very extensive hiker/backpacker/runner in the past, currently still...

The next Big Game Commercial Services Board (BGCSB) meeting is scheduled for December 7-9, 2010, at the Coast International Inn, 3450 Aviation Ave. For those of us that may be/will be affected by a DNR Guide Concession Plan/Program, be aware that DNR is scheduled to address board management...

When is the next time the Fish BOG will meet in Anchorage, or SouthCentral Alaska? Thanks, Dennis

Today a great rafting buddy and I rafted the Matunska River from Hicks Creek to Chiclaloon. Prior to the trip I consulted forum member Jim Strutz concerning the water conditions and the time required. He pretty much nailed it. Water was, generally speaking, medium flow, I think. It took five...

So currently there is this hugh oil catastrophy in the gulf states....with many people now securing employment in the cleanup effort... Concerning the 1989 Exon Valdez oil spill here in Alaska...has there ever been a study to determine if any of the oil spill cleanup workers experienced any...

Subzero Windchill? No. Avalanches? Perhaps. Vandalism at the hillside parking areas. Right On. Saturday I parked at the Glen Alps parking area at 8:00AM. Only two vehicles preceded me into the the Glen Alps parking lot area, which is the one at Flattop Mt and Powerline Pass. When I returned...

So the DNR Comment period is over concerning the projected APHA/DNR Guide Concession Plan. I heard that the Dallas Safari Club is not allowing guides/transporters who guide in Alaska to have a booth unless they are members of the APHA. The APHA is sending messages to legislators and the...

Hello Management Forum, The following is an ALTERNATIVE DNR Guide Concession Prospectus plan being "hawked/sold" by another APHA member, Master Guide-Outfitter Brian Peterson. __________________________________________________________________ Clark, I previously told you I would take it upon...

More DRN Guide Concession Obcessions... With the Little Rock, Arkansas DNR sales meeting now completed, DNR Clark will be back on the sales circuit here in Alaska soon. For those that might have missed the prior schedule of DNR Guide Concession Plan/Project presented by DNR, well, your in...

The following document is the 19 pages of DRAFT suggestions that APHA intends to submit to DNR concerning the DNR Guide Concession Plan/Project. Due to the length of the document I had to break this up into three separate parts. To their credit, they sent it to their professional members for...