whitehall
Diamond Member
There are about half a dozen of them. My wife likes to watch them for some reason so I do too from time to time. Pop reality seems infatuated with the concept but something bothers me. It would cost me a small fortune here in Virginia to hire a backhoe or a dozer for a day but these Alaskan people who allegedly are barely above subsistence have large machinery at their disposal. I saw a snowmobile stuck in a drift within a day's walking distance from the owner and a freaking helicopter came along to lift it to safety. They own boats and barges bigger than $50,000 houseboats to wrangle half a dozen head of cattle and they get to poach salmon and violate fish and game laws that would put us in the clink here in the lower 48. If it wasn't for the fact that they only get 10 days of summer (just kidding) I might try it.