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AlpenView's New Crew Quarters
We begain construction on a new building at AlpenView
Wilderness Lodge in April of 2009. It's still winter in early
April on Kodiak Island as one can see in the two top pictures.
Gerry Christiansen cleared snow while George Kirk and Dave Jones
unloaded materials from the Finlander. Due to frozen ground we
didn't accomplish much in early April.
After camp set-up and spring steelhead, we returned
to the building project in early May. The Lazy Bay, a landing
barge, delivered the bulk of the materials. The ground thawed
and the building started to move along. With the help of Eric
Cymbolin and Matt Kushner we were able to dry up the shell by
early June.
The new building includes a shop, a greenhouse and
staff residence. It will allow us to free up space in the main
lodge and increase our guest capacity.
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Out camp set-up crew included Tim Longrich, Shawn
Finn, Craig "Ole" Olsen and Dave Jones.
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Our camp season always starts with camp set-up. We
started set-up in 2009 on April 22 to accommodate our third year
of spring steelhead fishing.
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Left: a mother fox had made her den under our gear
storage pile on the river. When we began to move stuff she moved
out six kits. It took her six trips.
Above: Dave installs running water in the camp.
Left: Tim displays one of the few steelhead caught.
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Left to right: Pat, Donny, Dave, Josh, Ole and Tim.
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Camp, April 25 - May
2, 2009
Josh Lewis *
Kodiak, AK
Pat Steed *
Eden, NC
Tim Longrich *
Kodiak, AK
Donny Andrews *
Denver, CO
Craig "Ole" Olsen * Kodiak, AK
Staff for the week were Dave Jones and Shawn Finn.
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The river was blown out by the second day. Snow melt
and rain combined to put an end to our steelhead hopes.
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It was a big river as we flew to Kodiak after
evacuating camp.
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We flew out to Uganik Lake for a fantastic day of
Dolly Varden Fishing.
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Most of the fish were of a large average size.
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Captain Willy parked the plane and spent some time
fishing with us.
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Fresh fish sandwich.
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Donny reverts to his boy scout days and roasts a fish
on a stick.
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Donny kayak fishing on a trip to fish a lake near
the City of Kodiak.
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We caught some beautiful rainbows.
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Mike and Derek with a king.
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Camp, June 10 - 15, 2009
Bernie Beaudoin *
Overland Park, KS
Ray Sirois *
Shapleigh, ME
Mike Logue - Deerfield Beach, FL
Derek Logue - Deerfield Beach, FL
Chris Sirois - Greene, ME
Tyler Sirois - Greene, ME
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Left to right: Bernie, Mike, Tyler, Chris, Ray and
Derek.
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Molly and a fox.
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Bare-Bear viewing.
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Pajama fishing.
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Grilled salmon for Dinner.
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Camp, June 15 - 20, 2009
Ray Sirois *
Shapliegh, ME
Scott Bobbitt *
Nashaua, NH
Ron Pletcher * Molt, MT
Gail Pletcher - Molt, MT
Mike Jones - Nashaua, NH
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A view from the out-house.
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Left to right: Ron, Gail, Scott, Dave, Eric, Ray and
Mike.
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Above: A sunset in mid June is upstream of camp.
Right: In contrast, a sunset in mid September is downstream
of camp.
Below: Eric shares some of his favorite tunes.
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It's going to be a great day!
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Flight 1 at Gate A.
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Bear Viewing
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Sockeye Frank has another talent.
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Camp, June 20 - 25, 2009
Mark Vickstrom *
Kodiak, AK
Frank Pirnique *
Palouse, WA
Tuck Bonney - Kodiak, AK
Don Shaffer - Richfield, WA
Marcus Weiner - Anchorage, AK
Troy Leatherman - Anchorage, AK
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Left to right: Tuck, Frank, Dave, Don and Mark.
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Above: Dave and Troy with a king Left: Marcus and
Dave with a king. Bottom: Mark with a king.
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Tuck, Frank and a bear share a pool.
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Lloyd with a king.
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Molly with a king.
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Camp, June 25 - 30, 2009
Tim Longrich *
Kodiak, AK
Frank Pirnique *
Palouse, WA
Mary Pirnique *
Palouse, WA
Lloyd Luedecke - Pullman,
WA
Dave and Tim with some sockeye.
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Mary gets some advice from Dave.
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Mary's sockeye.
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Bears will eat a lot of grass between trips in the
river for fishing.
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