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I have lived in Alaska for about 20 years. My early childhood was spent living in the mountains of Northern California. Music was the first love of my life. I earned a living playing music from age 15 to 24. During this time, I began to become interested in photography. I built darkroom, and started shooting model portfolios part time at age 17. After I decided to stop playing music in bars, I worked in a sawmill in Oregon for a couple of years before learning to drive trucks and operate heavy equipment. The wilderness has always called me, and I decided to make the move to Alaska. I was very lucky in 1996 to be one of the winners of The Land for Alaskans program. This program allowed me to get my homestead in the Alaska bush. These days, cookiecache homestead (the name I gave my home) has a cabin and large garden. Since that time I have worked in film and video production. I have also worked on the Alaska North Slope.
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Just one more task
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Back when I first was building my homestead, there was a couple also building a cabin about a mile down stream from me. They needed some lumber milled, and I needed some help moving firewood, so we made a deal to exchange labor.
First I took m... read more
Dog sledding on a glacier
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I have had lots of requests for information and video of dog sledding on Godwin Glacier. I worked as a guide giving tours by dogteam and living on a glacier for two summers. It was great to be able to give people a chance to ride the sled runners ...
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blog entry posted Tue, February 10, 2009 - 7:05 PM
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Political landscape
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I watched Obama speak today about the risk of our economy becoming worse, and I am beginning to think I'm picking a great time to head out to the homestead for a while. A garden does not care what the stock market is doing. I do think there is a r...
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blog entry posted Mon, February 9, 2009 - 8:57 PM
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Tribe building
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There seems to be a very high interest in my project to form a tribe in the Alaska bush. The biggest problem is trying to give people a way to be certain that they will be treated well, and things are as I describe. Hmm, It is not wise to give out...
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blog entry posted Tue, February 3, 2009 - 1:36 AM
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Back when I first was building my homestead, there was a couple also building a cabin about a mile down stream from me. They needed some lumber milled, and I needed some help moving firewood, so we made a deal to exchange labor.
Thu, February 12, 2009 - 4:18 AM
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First I took my chainsaw mill set-up to their place, and we spent the entire day making boards. It was hard work, but we got a lot done. A few days later, they came to my place and spent the day throwing firewood and dragging brush. I have to say those two about w... read more
I have had lots of requests for information and video of dog sledding on Godwin Glacier. I worked as a guide giving tours by dogteam and living on a glacier for two summers. It was great to be able to give people a chance to ride the sled runners during summer, and I even had the chance to have snowball fights and go sledding on warn sunny days - tee-shirt weather. Everything on the glacier was transported by helicopter. Here's a short video I made while working as a guide: www.youtube...
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Tue, February 10, 2009 - 7:05 PM
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I watched Obama speak today about the risk of our economy becoming worse, and I am beginning to think I'm picking a great time to head out to the homestead for a while. A garden does not care what the stock market is doing. I do think there is a rising interest in basic survival skills. This might increase demand for my "how to" videos.
Mon, February 9, 2009 - 8:57 PM
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If things do get really bad, I hope the people wanting to join the tribe living at the homestead are able to afford the expense of getting started. While ... read more 
There seems to be a very high interest in my project to form a tribe in the Alaska bush. The biggest problem is trying to give people a way to be certain that they will be treated well, and things are as I describe. Hmm, It is not wise to give out personal information on this or any website for that matter, so I'm not sure what to do other than contact people by phone if they are really interested in becoming a tribe member living at the homestead.
Tue, February 3, 2009 - 1:36 AM
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I can post photos of the homestead. Tha... read more
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