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A few photos from Togiak
I’m weathered down in Ketchikan waiting for fog to disappear from the project site … been a couple days now, so at least I have time to post a few shots I had up on Facebook from last week in that beauty village of Togiak.
No real pics of the job itself because I was too busy being miserable plus it was just a bunch of dang sticks anyhow. -
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Thank you for sharing.
Anything of our work area would be boring
Cheers,
Derek
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Thanks Derek…that Togiak job wasn’t a very nice job at all…
Doing this Lidar proofing job at the moment in SE Alaska but the weather has got us locked down. This is from Saturday our last day we were able to fly…we couldn’t see out the windshield so had to take the door off. -
next stop Ketchikan?
Plan on surveying in the rain? I’m guessing you’ve passed through them thick woods before so I probably don’t need to remind you to sharpen your machete.
Yep, Ketchikan, where you never tan, you simply rust. And where the men are men and so are the women.
Spent more than a few moons there working in the woods. Now and then I go back just for the halibut.
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Someone in Togiak really likes to paint fancy dumpsters.
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Looks like that pilot could use some Rain-x (not sure if it is compatible with windshield).
Works wonders in a VW windshield…inside and out.
Who needs windshield wipers?Inside always tends to fog up without some Rain-X.
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> Looks like that pilot could use some Rain-x (not sure if it is compatible with windshield).
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> Works wonders in a VW windshield…inside and out.
> Who needs windshield wipers?
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> Inside always tends to fog up without some Rain-X.Rain X is good stuff…living in Oregon I use it all the time and yeah…who needs windshield wipers with that stuff. I don’t know if Rain X works on the plastic of a helicopter bubble…I know those guys like to use lemon pledge.
We could only go about 10-20 mph in foggy conditions so didn’t have the slip stream fast enough to remove water droplets.
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Thank you for the photos. I’ve spent the afternoon dealing with people who really shouldn’t be let out unsupervised, so the video of the pup was exactly what was wanted. That is so cute.
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Yea….real MEAN Ferocious dog there!!! B-) :dog: :-$ :love:
That made my day. Thanks for sharing…. :angel:
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Daryl,
As always great pictures. I need to get back up to Alaska again, maybe next summer for another visit and some fishing. I’ve done some GPS surveys for NASA Goddard Flight Center, (NGFC) in ’97, (Cape Yakataga) ’98, ’99 to Kodiak for work and fishing trips. Initial trip to Cape Yakataga, AK, up on the Bagley Glacier. Glacial Rebound Study. We flew from Cordova into the Yakataga Air strip on a Beaver & Cessna 183, no road built in those days. Then used Helicopter to deploy all the Trimble and Ashtech GPS receivers for 24-48 hour long static surveys. Made these trips when I worked for Ashtech. Great trips to Alaska. Then some Educational Outreach surveys for NGFC on Kodiak Island. Installed an Ashtech Z12 Reference station on the USCG Air Station Kodiak facility.
I just got back from Sao Paulo, Brazil, a week’s worth of providing Hemisphere GNSS training to my Distributor down there, TechGEO. Great trip down to Brazil, but Alaska always my favorite place on the planet, your a lucky Surveying Dude, lol.
-BbB B-)
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Cessna 183?
I think you mean either 180 or 185 (tail wheel) or 182 (nose wheel).
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Are you hiring?
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Probably a Cessna 180…
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AWESOME….
How much do you have to pay them to work there…:-S
😉
Dugger
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BBB, did you mean to say Yakutak, not Yakataga? You might want to clarify, just in case somebody wants to look that place up on the interpipes. I know that you and Mr Bryant did some great work up there around Yakutak Bay and in those glaciers and ice fields back in the day.
Hope you had a nice trip to Brazil, and had a few shots of cachaca for me.
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I screwed it up too. Meant to say Yakutat, not Yakutak 🙂
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Bill, I looked up the place Mark and I traveled to and did the AK GPS Surveys on Google Earth, me thinks I spelled in correctly, The terrain looked very familiar. Good trips, great memories, I still miss Mark, he was a good guy, I’m lucky to have known him, have him has my friend. I know I’m a better person from having known him for sure. He was a good friend. funny bastard, come on Bob, “Come outside and smoke with me”, still makes me lmao.
The picture of all three of us fishing on the Kenai River still hangs up in my office, the three Ashtech boys. I need to get back up to Alaska for some more fishing. I converse with Jon Ladd regularly these days, since we work together again. He’s living back up in NH, me in CT, we been riding our MC’s together. We rendezvoused at the Laconia MC Rally this past June. Had us a grand time.
-BbB B-)
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One of my memories from Ketchikan in June last year.
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>Good trips, great memories, I still miss Mark, he was a good guy, I’m lucky to have known him, have him has my friend.
Yes, I miss Mark Bryant as well. One of the best compadres I’ve ever had, and a funny funny man. The phrase “One of a kind” certainly applied to that guy.
> The picture of all three of us fishing on the Kenai River still hangs up in my office, the three Ashtech boys.
The same photo still hangs on a wall here, too. Our fishing guide Mike Hopley just came by the house a few days ago on his annual hunting trip to the NCW. Brought me 2 big jars of Cook Inlet razor clams.
Say high to Mr Ladd for me next time you see him!
BC
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Bill,
If your buddy Hopley is still running fishing charters in AK, I may want to setup something with him next spring/summer, let me know.
-BbB B-)
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