Independence Creek, Alaska

September, 2012

 

 

 

 

Loading up Tracy's plane for the flight to  Independence Creek. We Have 95 section corners to recover that were set every two miles along the township and range lines back in 1976 for a future breakdown. Doug and Matt will ride over in the Cessna 206 and Myself and Liz will ride with Adam in the helicopter.

 

 

 

 

A Man and his bird

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the camp at Independence Creek, An unfinished geologists camp, perfect for the 5 of us. The fall colors are unreal

 

 

 

 

The Cook Shack

 

 

 

 

 

Cozy once we opened up the windows, ran water from the creek, and started up the generator 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First night we explore our surroundings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old Independence Silver Mine

 

 

 

 

Highly unstable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting on a static GPS session when this critter shows up ... comes right up to me ... no fear

 

 

 

 

 

I introduce ... the wilderness

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the a.m. Adam fly's myself and Matt out to position recovered corner monuments then heads back to camp to get Doug and as many jugs of av gas as he can carry for the days work, in the P.M. he flies us all back ... she is very heavy at this point

 

 

A morning sunrise from my tent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 section corner fell only 10 feet away from this old miners shack out in the ding toolies.

 

 

 

 

Liz, our good friend and chef extraordinaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nobody has ever complained about Liz's cooking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

part of the ghost town of Candle

 

 

 

 

 

 

tussocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crew, Adam, Liz, Matt, Doug, and myself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracy tried landing through the fog a half dozen times before succeeding in extracting us and the gear. Good going Man.  Back to Kotzebue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caribou

 

 

 

Back to beginning of season

 

Home to Nevada Surveyor

 

2013 photos by Daryl Moistner

A Big thank you to Quicksilver Helicopters