2,500 miles across Alaska (Yakutat – Denali – Unimak)

Craig: Look for a PM from me about air flight options.

Philip: Mr. Binde did quite the trip there.  That article was pretty vague and left me wondering about their resupplies.  There aren’t a lot of Walmarts in towns along that route.  I’ve helped Hig and Erin set up drops along the western shore of Cook Inlet with local pilots and oil-field workers but more Binde’s route was a lot more remote and it didn’t sound like he had much support from locals.

My best guess was just getting from the PO in one town to the PO in the next and a little googling found an article with a little more detail.

Boxes packed ahead of time with food and other supplies arrived at various points along the way: https://www.aleutianseast.org/vertical/sites/%7BEBDABE05-9D39-4ED4-98D4-908383A7714A%7D/uploads/In_the_Loop_-_11-6-20.pdf

“Mom sent them off every week or two, and we just picked them at every post office, and continued on to the next town,” Binde said.  That, and lying about if there’s any fuel in the Priority Mail packages could make it all work.

The Aleutians (and Juneau) are like that – amazingly beautiful on a sunny day.  I’m never sure if they’re objectively beautiful or it’s just such a constrast with the usual wind and fog.

I haven’t been in much of the Cooper River Canyon – just a few miles around the Chitina for dip-netting reds, but in that stretch there’s an old railroad bed that’s still quite walkable with an occasional scramble where a trestle or roadbed has washed out.

But for that?  Yeah, that would be a tough canyon to move through and going upriver would impossible without a 100-hp jet drive on your boat.  Just fishing from shore, I kept my PFD on the whole time.