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<P><STRONG>Thank you for sharing, Sunil. I found this to be a most pleasant way to spend a morning with a good cup of coffee!</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>This is worth checking out, folks. Very few of us will ever have the opportunity to experience this in person.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Ellen A. Roskovich</STRONG><BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com></I><BR>To: <I>vision2020@moscow.com</I><BR>Subject: <I>[Vision2020] Buck's trip across Alaska</I><BR>Date: <I>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:33:54 -0700</I><BR>>Here's a link to my friend Bruce 'Buck' Nelson's trip across Alaska last<BR>>summer.<BR>><BR>>http://www.bucktrack.com/Alaska_Brooks_Range_Traverse.html<BR>><BR>>If you actually look this page up, I suggest you scroll to the bottom, as<BR>>the earliest entries are at the bottom of the page.<BR>><BR>>With the help of a friend, Buck dropped food caches along the way, then<BR>>started near the Canadian border, on foot. He hiked over 600 miles and<BR>>canoed another 400 miles along the Noatak River, out to Kotzebue.<BR>><BR>>His friend Melanie updated the web page for him; they
kept in touch with a<BR>>satellite phone, and he'd leave his coordinates and messages on her<BR>>answering machine, or they'd sometimes talk.<BR>><BR>>Given how difficult it is to walk a hundred yards on tussocks, to walk over<BR>>ten miles a day, every day, is amazing. Then there's having to cross<BR>>streams and rivers...<BR>><BR>>Enjoy! His pictures from the trip are also on the page.<BR>><BR>>Sunil<BR>><BR>><BR>>=======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> http://www.fsr.net<BR>>
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