SEP-A-3

ENTERING THE GREAT LAND:

“COMING INTO THE COUNTRY”

ANCHORAGE TO ANIOK,

AND POINTS BEYOND BY BUSH PILOT

INTO THE YUKON DELTA

September 3, 2003

And we are on our way into the interior of the Great Land. We will be in the Yukon Delta after we arrive in Aniok by the last commercial flight that will take us from the last of our check-in baggage to the sorting out of our camp gear into the kind we will need in our base camp and the spike camps to which we may be moving to pursue the “fair chase” spot and stalk big game we are after.

I am on the Continental flight across the North American continent in a seven hour flight which began an hour late from the foul weather that has been plaguing the East Coast fir the summer. I may have to go to Alaska to warm up! I am only half way into the flight and the second movie has run already to a fluffy completion. The first one was “Dinner at Eight” and the second was a chick flick called “How to Lose a Man in Ten Days.” I have used up the life of the laptop battery and still have a half a long flight to go. But, I am heading into the Wilds of the Alaskan Yukon Delta and that is a different kind of urgency than just being trapped in India!

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