So I am having a gas flying happy visitors and around Denali and up to the Arctic. So relaxing compared to 45 years of stress doing and managing surveying. So today I'm in Coldfoot above Arctic Circle and the guests go off on a 3 hour tour before we reload and launch for Villages of Anuktuvuk Pass and Point Barrow north of 71* North. Brilliant day and I forgot fly rod, so I take a nice walk down runway and back along the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River. Of course I weaved over off runway and found the PACS and SACS monuments without data sheets. Walked over to Coldfoot camp for a free lunch via the UNAVCO CORS station. Am I sick? You can stop working as a surveyor but you can't stop being one I guess LOL.
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Stunning. What is the temperature (on the ground)?
Every time I think about PACS/SACS I break out in hives.
Richard Imrie, post: 435294, member: 11256 wrote: Stunning. What is the temperature (on the ground)?
Yesterday it was mid seventies in the Brooks Range, 50s on the coast as wind wasn't northerly off the Arctic Ocean. Summer is short in the Arctic
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The paint on the twin is cool. Is that yours? What brand of aircraft is it? Me and SWMBO want to see Denali from the air and ground. You certainly look like a good choice. Got a website? 😎
FL/GA PLS., post: 435321, member: 379 wrote: [USER=149]@NorthernSurveyor[/USER]
The paint on the twin is cool. Is that yours? What brand of aircraft is it? Me and SWMBO want to see Denali from the air and ground. You certainly look like a good choice. Got a website? 😎
Here's who operates the Piper
http://www.aircharterguide.com/Operator_Info/AIR+ARCTIC%5Bc%5D+INC%5Bdot%5D/96408/FAIRBANKS/65617
FL/GA PLS., post: 435321, member: 379 wrote: [USER=149]@NorthernSurveyor[/USER]
The paint on the twin is cool. Is that yours? What brand of aircraft is it? Me and SWMBO want to see Denali from the air and ground. You certainly look like a good choice. Got a website? 😎
I am flying for Air Arctic based in Fairbanks. It's a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo, a 10 passenger turbocharged 700hp twin. All of their planes painted differently but very cool.
Air Arctic owned by Northern Alaska Tour Company. I think the premier Alaska tour group. Lots of options
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NorthernSurveyor, post: 435286, member: 149 wrote: So I am having a gas flying happy visitors and around Denali and up to the Arctic.
My brother just bought the company he used to work for and runs a 50' research boat out of Prudhoe Bay in the summers.
https://sites.google.com/site/rvukpik/home
NorthernSurveyor, post: 435329, member: 149 wrote: I am flying for Air Arctic based in Fairbanks. It's a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo, a 10 passenger turbocharged 700hp twin. All of their planes painted differently but very cool.
Air Arctic owned by Northern Alaska Tour Company. I think the premier Alaska tour group. Lots of options
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Cool pics Mike! My father-in-law is an A&P for Northern Alaska Tour Company (long-time Warbelow's employee, stayed on when bought by Northern). He has only good things to say about the positive company culture--sounds like a blast. There's something to be said for working around happy people.
NorthernSurveyor, post: 435286, member: 149 wrote: So I am having a gas flying happy visitors and around Denali and up to the Arctic. So relaxing compared to 45 years of stress doing and managing surveying. So today I'm in Coldfoot above Arctic Circle and the guests go off on a 3 hour tour before we reload and launch for Villages of Anuktuvuk Pass and Point Barrow north of 71* North. Brilliant day and I forgot fly rod, so I take a nice walk down runway and back along the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River. Of course I weaved over off runway and found the PACS and SACS monuments without data sheets. Walked over to Coldfoot camp for a free lunch via the UNAVCO CORS station. Am I sick? You can stop working as a surveyor but you can't stop being one I guess LOL.
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I / We can never stop being Surveyors, always noticing anything in small detail, out of place, out of line. My wife just smiles now when I point out a brass screw or bit of flagging on an old fence.
Followup post as I have been going up to Coldfoot in Brooks Range most days. Go fishing while I'm standing by. Checked on UNAVCO CORS station and found an obliterated BLM corner that I had done a boundary risk assessment on. Guess they didn't read that or their authorization to construct permit. Going to cost them now to rehabilitate. I let BLM know. 
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