So, I mentioned this in another thread and here's the idea.

My wife and I would be up for hosting a few people from this board this summer if anyone want's to come up. We've done this with Scuba divers in the past and it turns out to be a lot of fun. she's actually more interested in this than the divers since it involves hiking!

I'm thinking sometime in late July early August would be best.

So if we work it out, you get yourselves here, I have 2 spare bedrooms so all I would expect is help covering expenses (food, boat fuel, etc.)

I would expect that this would be a week (or so) of day hikes, boating to shoot whales, bears, bald eagles, sea lions, and other life and maybe a side trip who knows, I'm open. For scenery, we have mountains, glaciers, rivers streams, waterfalls, etc.

Bunking situation would be this - 1 room double bed, 1-room 2 twins, plus space in the living room for someone to take an air mattress.

Basically I'll move my sons (7 and 12) upstairs and you guys get the first floor of the house.

What do I get? an excuse to take some time off work, hang with some of you guys and maybe learn some tricks to better my photo skills.

Kids are OK to bring as well, they just need to be up to hiking. Boat space is limited so we'll have to see how that might work. I may have other boat options.

To get here, you have to fly to Juneau on Alaska Airlines through Seattle.

Ben has first dibs since it's his board, I don't know if he's interested but beyond that we have space if anyone is interested.

DM

I'm not sure I can swing that week, I'm supposed to become an uncle around that time.

You'd like diving here! I could give you your drysuit cert while you're here.

BTW under 2 y/o flys free.

WOW! This sounds so awesome!! We've got a couple of trips already in the works, but this would be so awesome to do instead. Very nice of you to offer up!!

I get $882 from Boston on Alaskaair.com That's the best place to look since they have the monopoly on getting to Juneau.

Sea life:
Huge Sea Lions
ling cod
octopus
Nudibranchs
Rockfish,
Crab,
etc, etc - I'm more of a wreck diver myself but we do have some cool sea life.

Yes, on the wrecks, we have some really great ones! Just gained a new one in the last few weeks, I was the first one on it!

Josh- Might work - Juneau is a detour if you are driving but it might work. Either way, the drive up the ALCAN is incredible!

Stoopid - $775 from Newark Round trip.

That is so tempting... If only I had the time this year Alaska is one of the destinations I really want to go to.

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

BACKSTORY!

Not a big one - 52' wood commercial fishing boat - sank at anchor in 130'. Sitting upright in a pretty calm location. It'll make a great training site for my classes. We'll youtube this one soon!

We have several in the 250' to 400' long range and in 40' to 220' depth. We are looking for 2 that are from the goldrush days (mid-late 1800's).

$1720 to LA How much does it cost from LA to bear land?

$772.00


Pricing may change for the summer but right now the lions share is Seattle to Juneau $511

Damn that's nearly $3k in airfares. How much does it cost to hire a car and drive? Calculate extra insurance for I drive on the left......

You can't drive to Juneau! Fly or Float only, there's no road.

You could drive 2-3 days from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska and then ride the ferry 70 miles to Juneau but that would cost more than flying.

Originally Posted by dmitchell

You can't drive to Juneau! Fly or Float only, there's no road.

You could drive 2-3 days from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska and then ride the ferry 70 miles to Juneau but that would cost more than flying.

So I need a car that floats well and I can mount an outboard on

Ok you win for living in a remote location.

You could practically put an Alaska ferry on the car deck of those ferries. Ours are much smaller.

Stolen from wiki -

OK so tomorrow we'll create an initial list and then over time we'll figure our who can really make it and firm up the dates.


Here's some teasers

Couple off my boat last summer





The Glacier is 5 minutes from my house then about an hour hike to get to the ice





This is a Crevasse



My son with a 100lb Halibut - the fish was heavier than him!

The list - no commitments yet just cleaning up the thread.

Ben x 2.25 (doubtful)
Boobs x ??
Stoopid x 1?
Rider of Bmx x 2? (may be up anyway)
Stime187 x1 ? (may be in the neighborhood)
s7khan x 1?
thechickencow x2?
tbert x a full house?

It's easy turn south at Whitehorse, drive for 1.5 hours, catch a ferry for 2 or 6 hours depending on which one and you are in Juneau.

Technically, Juneau is on the mainland we just don't have a road.

Keep me posted, even if it's outside the timing of this thing we can probably work it out.

Ketchikan wanted the Bridge, Juneau gets the road to nowhere!

Currently in Ketchikan, you have to catch a ferry from town across the channel to the island to get to the airport. The want a bridge so they can drive across and not have to depend on the ferry. The problem is that even though it's a short hop across the channel, the bridge has to be tall enough to allow ships to pass under. And since it's a government project, the price is 4X what it should really cost.

Juneau on the other hand is split 50/50 on wanting a road vs. not wanting a road. It's been argued for 30 years+++ . The proposed route is through some very rough terrain and something like 25 avalanche zones. I'm on the fence, I would use it, but not to drive to America, it's too far. I'd just use it to get into the Yukon. Oh yea, cost estimates are around 300 Million to go 70 miles and we would still need a ferry to cross the last part.

shorter list:
Ben x 2.25 (doubtful)
Boobs x ??
Rider of Bmx x 2? (may be up anyway)
Stime187 x1 ? (may be in the neighborhood)
thechickencow x2?

Originally Posted by s7khan

Thank you but no thanks

I'm easily confused!


shorter list:
Ben x 2.25 (doubtful)
Boobs x ??
Rider of Bmx x 2? (may be up anyway)
Stime187 x1 ? (may be in the neighborhood)
s7khan x1
thechickencow x2?

Dude, it's so out of control, our newspaper has a blog after each article and letter to the editor. The mayor can stub his toe and someone blames it on us not having a road.

Oh yea! How soon we forget!

Originally Posted by Pomorski

so if there are no roads, how do you get out of town for the weekend?

In most cases you don't!

We have our boat and the summer we try to get out on it and camp.

Otherwise, we can take the ferry somewhere if the schedule fits, but it's pretty expensive. The family and the CRV costs about $500 RT to the nearest road.

My In-laws just bought a place (cabin) in a little town about 60-70 miles from here. We ferried over there for New Years, 4 hours each way and about $60 pp RT. I presume that my wife will want to spend several weekends there this summer. The problem is the ferry is on Thursday morning. When summer hits and we had good daylight I could make that run in my boat after work in just over 2 hours.

Otherwise, you take a jet to Seattle.