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Long Alaska day too much for campers from Outside
Anchorage Daily News ^ | JAMES HALPIN

Posted on 07/09/2009 11:06:23 AM PDT by Species8472

The midnight twilight turned out to be too much for a couple of out-of-state visitors who wanted to be rescued after spending a single night in the Bush this month, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

Troopers say they got a report of an emergency locator beacon registered to Washington, D.C., resident William Calomiris, 27, that was activated near Pungokepuk Lake, 20 miles northeast of Twin Hills, about 8:30 p.m. July 1. An air taxi service had dropped him and Adam Grunstra, also 27, of Bethesda, Md., off at the lake on June 30 for a seven-day stay, troopers said.

Troopers alerted the Alaska Air National Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard and then diverted their own Dillingham-based floatplane that was in the area to head to the scene and check things out.

"Calomiris and Grunstra claimed that they had been sunburned,"

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: alaska; clueless; napl; notsarahpalin; outsiders
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To: Species8472

These clowns were probably Rat operatives.


21 posted on 07/09/2009 11:42:41 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Species8472

Then start with John McCain who continues to vote against ANWR each time it comes up to vote.


22 posted on 07/09/2009 11:44:17 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Species8472
LOL! Oh, the things I could say...

We call people like these guys the "3BO" crowd. Birkenstocks, backpacks, and body odor.

23 posted on 07/09/2009 11:47:24 AM PDT by redhead (Liberalism: The STD of American politics. Check out the Half-baked Sourdough! (shameless blog plug!))
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To: Frantzie
"LOL! Do they have golf courses there? If I could handle the mosquitoes it would be golf 12 hours a day."

Last week, I believe our length of day had shrunk to 19 hours. Fall is fast approaching. ...sigh...

24 posted on 07/09/2009 11:49:54 AM PDT by redhead (Liberalism: The STD of American politics. Check out the Half-baked Sourdough! (shameless blog plug!))
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To: Species8472
Which reminds me of a good movie...


25 posted on 07/09/2009 11:57:41 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Species8472
LOL We have a word for folks like this

Cheechako

A new-comer to Alaska, ignorant of the terrain, the weather, the animals, the culture, the necessary driving skills in the winter, etc. Opposite of a sourdough.

26 posted on 07/09/2009 12:02:07 PM PDT by ASOC (Who is that fat lady? And why is she singing???)
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To: Species8472

“..couple of out-of-state visitors who wanted to be rescued after spending a single night in the Bush..”

Another teary-eyed survival in the hostile wilderness book deal in the making. DC home address; figures.


27 posted on 07/09/2009 12:03:20 PM PDT by corvus
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To: avacado

They were probably camping on Brokeback Mountain...


28 posted on 07/09/2009 12:05:54 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Eschew exclamatory abuse.)
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To: Species8472
They called in for emergency airlift extraction for ... SUNBURN????
29 posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:51 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: Species8472
Perfect. The Alaska State Fair is next week. A must see are the gigantic vegetables on display! The very long, extended summer hours when the sun stays out much longer than it does in the lower 49 makes for mutant veggies. Produce is exposed to the nurturing sunlight exponentially longer and as a result, can grow exponentially larger.

BAWAHAHAHA! Pikers! Bring on the sun!

For example, here is a list of state vegetable records set in last year's Alaska State Fair:

23-foot, 3 1/2-inch corn stalk
4.702-pound parsnip
1,019-pound pumpkin
17.195-pound yellow zucchini
67 1/8-inch long gourd
55.15-pound blue hubbard squash
21.530-pound bushel gourd


30 posted on 07/09/2009 12:18:23 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: Species8472; steelie; fish hawk; BOBTHENAILER; SierraWasp; tubebender; BIGLOOK

I had the opposite experience.

My experience, also, happened during the longest days. In 3 days, I basically did nothing but fish, sightsee and fish. I figured if there was sunlight, I should be fishing or sightseeing.

After 72 hours of the fishing and sightseeing and no real sleep, I became catatonic for about 24 hours. After that I limited the fishing and sight seeing to about 16 hours per day.


31 posted on 07/09/2009 12:19:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: hoosiermama

One reason some of the Beltway boys don’t like Gov. Palin.
They can’t keep up in her world.


32 posted on 07/09/2009 12:21:57 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: avacado

Yeah, I have been camping with a platoon of my best friends in Alsaka.

It was called survival school...

LOL.


33 posted on 07/09/2009 12:22:45 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: Species8472

They probably just ran out of beer.


34 posted on 07/09/2009 12:22:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: Species8472
"Calomiris and Grunstra claimed that they had been sunburned," troopers wrote in a dispatch. "They were unprepared to deal with the long day length and any further exposure to the sun.


Girlie Men. Girlie Men!

BUT This.....

Troopers say they got a report of an emergency locator beacon .... Troopers alerted the Alaska Air National Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard and then diverted their own Dillingham-based floatplane that was in the area to head to the scene and check things out.
is NOT funny. Bill their Nancy Boy City butts for every nickel!

I knew more about 'the outdoors' when I was friggen TEN than these schmucks! And I lived in CHICAGO.

35 posted on 07/09/2009 12:26:41 PM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Grampa Dave
I had a little trouble adjusting but one night (if you can call it that) we were water skiing at midnight on a lake.
36 posted on 07/09/2009 12:27:09 PM PDT by fish hawk (Volition is a gift of God to reject Him or find peace in His love.)
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To: ASOC

This thread is killing me. LOL!


37 posted on 07/09/2009 12:27:33 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: patton

Now that I’m not being paid or ordered to sleep outdoors in nasty circumstances, I prefer not to go to out of the way wilderness areas. Embassy Suites is more my style, not Subsaharan Africa or Central America.


38 posted on 07/09/2009 12:31:01 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (So close to Postal)
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To: BeerLover NYC

I don’t think they had problems getting lotion on their backs.


39 posted on 07/09/2009 12:31:25 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: CholeraJoe

Been there, done that - well, the Persion Gulf, not Africa.

We now camp in a cabin. I like it.

It has a en suite, too - a mulch bucket.

LOL.


40 posted on 07/09/2009 12:33:14 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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