About 100 miles north of Anchorage is the little town of Talkeetna. Many people are proud to be those who "live off the grid". This means they have no wired in electricity, power, or telephone. They try to live a "subsitence" life style. The people who run these "jet boat" rides moved from a very busy life in California to living off the land...and alternative electric/heat/phone source. I went on a jet boat ride that took us up the "braided river" where 3 rivers join together near Talkeetna. Talkeetna is the town where climbers come to prepart to climb Mt. McKinley. The cemetery has memorials of those who died on the mountain...on their climb. They also have a number of pilots whose head stones are their propellers.
Mount MckInley amidst some of the clouds
This is a summer camp for an Athabastan natives who wold hunt and fish and preserve their food and berries for the winter months. The frost does not go out of the ground...so they can dig 3 feet down, line the whole with branches and put their food to keep cool. They will cover it so that it deters the animals...especially the bears!
This is a cabin that was the size of the gold rush miners and trappers. They built them small and short so that they did not need as much to heat it over the winter. The door opens to the outside as a protectin against bears who instinctively try to push in. The added door frame saved many lives.
This is the "cash house" that trappers/miners would buid to put their food, furs and other valuables in for safe keeping. The poles at the top are lined with tin or a material that will prevent bears getting a grip and climbing up. They would hide the ladder and things would stay safe and sound.
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