Alaskan CPFrs?

I got to meet "tibim" tonight. He lives right here in Anchorage. Nice to meet a fellow CPFr instead of merely reading posts here all the time. I feel like I know a few of you without meeting you as it is...but you know, it's that "group therapy" thing. He brought his new Tiger Light FBOP over, first time I'd seen one. Nice throw! Amazingly lightweight!

I know Daniel Ramsey lives just a little north of Anchorage, and another antique torch collector a little closer, however was just wondering if any of you other mysterious CPFrs may live in Alaska?

We may have to establish the "Aurora Borealis CPF Post"?

Sigman -

Just going to tip toe in and tip toe out. Alaska is so big and mountainous that your meeting LedFanFromJuneau must be a bit more of a logistical issue than most intrastate CPFers might have.

Oh yeah...no roads in - no roads out. I almost feel that way in Anchorage, one road south - one road north (but then the "North Escape" aka Glenn Highway breaks into two roads about 35 miles north and the "South Escape" aka Seward Highway break into two roads about 70 or so <???> miles south; I may have my miles a little off, but not by much! - Wooo Hooo!)

Although LedFan may get into Anchorage from time to time? A lot of flights get their connections here. I'd have to give him a "CPF Welcome" schedule permitting (the Alaska Railroad "owns" me! ).

Former Alaskan here. I grew up in Juneau. So did Craig. I'll make it back for a visit one of these days.

Well I would certainly hope you would let us (all 3 or 4 or us ) know prior to your visit!!

I was sure that I read Craig's Mom lived here (Anchorage or Juneau?), but didn't remember where Craig grew up.

former Alaskan here as well...8 years in Homer ALaska!

Originally posted by Masala:
former Alaskan here as well...8 years in Homer ALaska!

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Ahhhhh, now there's a beautiful place!!

"HALIBUT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!!"


What did you do while in Homer?

Hello Sigman,

I don't live in Alaska but end up there every summer. As a matter of fact, I just got back from Anchorage last thursday.

Next time, I'll drop you a line and see if we can get together.

Tom

So few of us in such a big state....not to mention what its like in the winter with so little weak sunshine!

SilverFox, there's a fishing charter business with that name...any connection?

Another former Alaskan. Born and raised there. Lived about 1/2 way between Palmer and Wasilla. In Idaho now.

-Darin

hello once again, sigman

just to let you know, i work and live in ak approx 6 mo/year in the tok area.

bushcamp

evan9162 - When did you "head out"? If it's been a few years...that area up around Wasilla & Palmer sure has changed in the last 10 years or so!

bushcamp - Did you tell me this before? It's ringing the ole' bell...What do you do up around Tok? Remember those bad fires that were up that way? Good hunting there too!

Originally posted by Sigman:
evan9162 - When did you "head out"? If it's been a few years...that area up around Wasilla & Palmer sure has changed in the last 10 years or so!

bushcamp - Did you tell me this before? It's ringing the ole' bell...What do you do up around Tok? Remember those bad fires that were up that way? Good hunting there too!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">96, when I graduated from HS. The Parks highway runs in front of my house - the rebuilding project starting at the Parks/Glenn intersection is the most apparent change - an entire overpass for Trunk road!

I only get home once a year at christmas - about the worst possible time to visit too!

-Darin

Born & raised in Juneau here. Moved to Seattle in 1985, but I lived in Alaska prior to that.
I remember when they towed away the old Juneau-Douglas bridge and opened that hideous asphalt thing (aka. the "new" JD bridge) in its place.

Funny this topic shows up now - just tonight I got an email from somebody in Alaska I haven't seen or heard from since the mid 1970s!
Seems he stumbled across my insulator site while looking for pictures of the old JD bridge.

Craig, how long you been collecting insulators? There's fellow up here that owns "Superior Fireplaces" (or something like that)...he travels around the world collecting them. Had the opportunity to purchase a fireplace from him and when I saw what he had in his office....can't describe it - insulators from the floor to the ceiling, wall to wall!!! I've got to go find your insulator site now!

Never been to Juneau...some call it "Little Switzerland"!

Hello Sigman,

Sorry, no connection to the fishing charters.

Tom

Originally posted by Sigman:
Craig, how long you been collecting insulators? ... I've got to go find your insulator site now!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hi Sigman!

I was collecting insulators up in Juneau around age 6 or 7; I found most of them up by the substation at the Treadwell mines at the base of Mt. Roberts, but I ended up losing most of them when I moved to Seattle in the mid-1980s. So I started collecting them again when I got my own place here in Seattle.

My insulator website is right here if you're interested in those things.
If you click on "The Stories" it says how I got started collecting them.

Fairbanks,checking in, (for the past 8 years).
Been in Anchorage for the previous 7 years,with a short stint in Ketchikan.

Regards,Bill

Hello Bill, glad ya posted! I work for the Alaska Railroad Signal Dept., used to make it up there quite alot, but it's tapered off since we hired a couple other techs.

Aircraft Mech eh? I used to do avionics for Uncle Sam's planes (21 years worth!)...

This is looking better, maybe someday (and who has time? I guess it's one of those, you just have to make time things...) we could indeed have that "Aurora Borealis CPF G.T."!