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To: average joe who wrote (96692)	11/22/2012 9:11:49 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217545

When younger lived up in Juneau Alaska one spring/summer/fall working for a successful local mover & shaker "Buster McNabb" who owned some 100ft crabbers in Dutch Harbor & also got the permit to build the first full scale Prospector Hotel up there. Right around the time of the Alyeska Pipeline excitement when Juneau was overrun with lobbyists, poilticians & contractors from everywhere and the Hotel bars only closed 5am-7am , which was just enough time to get the old bottles out & the fresh one's in. Was an exciting adventure but contained alot of realism as well, not a place to be for the weak and the cost of goods up there was really a shock. I had no desire to stay and find out what "cabin fever" was all about, lol, or try any goldmining. The pipeline was another huge modern gold/mineral rush of sorts but the old stories about the Klondike and the rush for gold up in Dawson City , Whitehorse & Skagway were still being told. And the trial of crossing over the White Pass & Chilkoot trails where over 3000 pack animals died trying to scale that last 1000ft which was just 1500 steps carved out of ice & rock, steep & narrow. Then they had to deal with perma frost if they were digging in the summer with ground temps -60*F in winter , they only had wood fires to thaw out the ground so they could even begin to dig... (or the poor souls that lost their lives rafting down the Yukon river to reach the fields)