Nyac Cadastral Survey, Alaska (video blog)

Outstanding!

Living the life of danger..........

I really enjoyed the vidio......

> I fly back to the frozen north on Sunday....my summer is over...

Just curious, Do you ever stay home long enough to eat?? 🙂

We're watching the video now. That plane taking off on that dirt runway...WOW!!! :-O Even MY ears hurt!! The bears are cute but I wouldn't want to get TOO close. You make great videos, Daryl!! You got Clint Eastwood beat. 😉

WOW, again,

Obviously you’re a wizard of some sorts. Could you incorporate the music in this link into one of your videos?

Take care!

FL/GA, PLS....

.....that piece by Tito and Tarantula is a classix big time... the only way I can make that tune fly is in a Cantina.....when the mood is set through music and character ... but then I would rather be taking still shots of the moment... the Video format confounds me...

Phenomenal video and many kudos to you all- awesome project. You will be immortalized for centuries to come! How long are you up there at a time? How many more townships to go and when do you anticipate to finish? I was quite amazed at the ingress & egress from the chopper- amazing how precise the pilot needs to be when resting the rails on the hillside to let you guys on and off.

Please post more videos when you have time.

Be safe

Chuck

Thanks again, for sharing.....

I was going to say it's the kind of job you love to hate, but I think it's more like, the kind of job you hate to love.

Have a great trip, and please, be careful out there.

Dugger

I rarely use the F word but this is just F'ing awesome.

From the delicate touch of the copter pilots to the thoughts of setting original monuments. I think back to 1873 when ours were set in Oklahoma and the pioneers that set them. You are a part of the same legacy in Alaska.

Just amazing stuff. Thanks for the pictures and videos.

And your sense of humour in it all. That just puts the icing on the cake.

Take care and don't end up as bear food. 🙂

(grab the right can and not the off when you need it)..Or the blaster.

dp

Along time ago i made a promise to myself. "Self, I am never going up off of the ground in a aircraft with less than 2 engines." I have never yet done that. Unfortunately, it looks like i will never have the privilege of participating in a project like that with you and your men. I can handle the bears, the cold, the mosquitos, the swamps, the long hours and the privation. Just not gonna fly in a single-engined anything.

Still, that's an incredible adventure - something your kids will be proud of, much less you.

Keep up the good work and stay safe!

From the hot and flat lands of Texas.

Good video. Memories you will never forget.

I read somewhere, maybe on this board, the best way to deal with bears is to walk up to them and smack them on the nose.

Not sure what it does. The guy that wrote the article was supposed to test it and publish his results. He never finished the article for some reason.

Thanks Deral....I'm blessed that I've been able to work with the same great people over the years...the work can sometimes be a slog so its great to have good people around...we watch each others back...except for the times when we're swearing at each other...

Hi Chuck...these jobs are on a contract by contract basis and I think I will see fewer of them in the future...I used to work 6 months a year in Alaska but the last two years have been slimmer..Now I have to supplement Alaska work with what I can find in Oregon but there's usually always something going on.... this small video is from a survey recon for a Fiber optic cable across and around lake Iliamna back in June....hope to be working on more of that next year...

Daryl...

> Thanks Deral....I'm blessed that I've been able to work with the same great people over the years...the work can sometimes be a slog so its great to have good people around...we watch each others back...except for the times when we're swearing at each other...

We just watched the "Flight 152" one. Your comment at the end made it all worth while!! 😀

Question: Do you speak Czech??? Wendell and I were curious.

Let us know when you come back to Oregon. Would enjoy meeting you and having a drink together or something. :beer: :drink:

Daryl...

> > Thanks Deral....I'm blessed that I've been able to work with the same great people over the years...the work can sometimes be a slog so its great to have good people around...we watch each others back...except for the times when we're swearing at each other...
>
> We just watched the "Flight 152" one. Your comment at the end made it all worth while!! 😀
>
> Question: Do you speak Czech??? Wendell and I were curious.
>
> Let us know when you come back to Oregon. Would enjoy meeting you and having a drink together or something. :beer: :drink:

No Angel...I don't speak Czech...I find Czech and Hungarian the most mind boggling languages I have come across... I do have a weak colloquial understanding of Vietnamese which is quite handy in the Czech Republic's Zizkov district with a large Vietnamese populace ...refugees and what not from the war in Vietnam...from the North part of Vietnam...shopkeepers and such now in Prague...fun to banter in awkward fashion...but at my brothers wedding I talked to many Czechs and though we could not understand each others language we could still communicate....it was awesome

Daryl...

Aww man I bet the Pho is delicious there!! Wendell would fit in great in Czech with the Vietnamese & Czech food! Plus he is part Czech. He knows the bad words. 😉

Daryl...

I can't spell 'em, but I know how to say 'em.

Villish me purrdell
(kiss my ass)

Slrrotch
(sh*thouse)

Hovno
(sh*t)

Jeddeck
(old man)

Pburrhundt
(brat)

Hoodock
(bum, poor thing -- I use this one regularly)

And that concludes your Czech lesson for today.

He might not have finished the article but I just finished reading the biography of Smokey the Bear. This may shed some insight on the outcome.

On his top ten things to NOT do to a bear was;
Smacking it on the Nose.

Daryl – great footage! The helicopter toe-in shots are exciting.

When I was working seismic in the Rockies a pilot in an Alouette III was picking up a surveyor on a steep rocky ridge and did a toe-in with the Alouette. Having tricycle gear, this ended up being a fatal mistake. A wind gust moved the helicopter slightly, the single front wheel hit a rock and the bird flipped and started rolling down the mountain side.

After a couple hundred feet it lodged, upside down, between two rock spires. The surveyor survived, but the pilot and his seat were torn out of the ship, crashing through the glass bubble and tumbling another 500 feet down the hillside.

The poor surveyor got to watch this carnage, hanging upside-down in the wreckage. He was able to get himself out of the Alouette, walk back to the seismic line, find the E-shack (portable emergency shack equipped with medical supplies, survival gear, radios, etc.) & call for help. Needless to say, toe-ins were a lot more exciting after the news broke about the accident. Seeing your film saved me from having to make coffee this morning. My pulse is still at around 180 as I type. Be careful out there. Don’t be lazy or fly with daredevils.

A Lama toe-in in Utah (relatively stable on two skids):

photo by Tom Ruppenthal

Alouette III (just a single front wheel to rest against the hill side and I believe the pilot can't see the wheel from the cockpit):

Photo by Doug Lutz

Yea, The old aviation saying applies:

'There are OLD pilots,
and there are BOLD pilots,
but there are NO OLD BOLD pilots.'

Daryl, I appreciate and even love a daring adventure as much as anyone, but Please Do Take Care.

Uh, and if you ever need another GPS guy, I'm there!