07 June 2011

Alaska Digest 6/7/11

Dyslexia Sukcs Dept: I saw a headline this morning which I thought said, "Residents Advised to Begin Moving Away from Wildlife" and the gun-owning hunter in me started to bristle up, a bit. Then I realized it isn't "Wildlife" ... it's "Wildfire."

In the words of Emily Litella, "Never mind."




Horse-whipping's Too Good for Him Dept: A seven-year-old girl has been beaten severely by a burglar. We have lampposts ... where's the rope?



Kindly Curb Your ... Bear Dept: All the bears are long since awake, and roaming the streets and back alleys of Anchorage. It seems there's a part of town where the residents are habitually lax in their storage of household trash, and the bears know it. They're on the prowl for food in the bags & bins ... again.
Howzabout a nice pic-nic basket?


Missing Persons Dept: Melanie Gould, an Iditarod musher from Talkeetna, has gone missing. The search continues.


There's An App For That Dept:
On your next wilderness excursion to, say, a well-visited glacier, you may encounter another adventurer staring at his iPhone. Don't imagine that he's tuning out nature. He's more likely to be tuning in with a new and free application designed to put a comprehensive guide to Alaska's wonders in the palm of your hand.

Read more at the links.

1 comment:

joated said...

Lamppost? Heck, that's why they made bumpers and trailer hitches. Fairbanks to Coldfoot on the Dalton Hwy. ought to do it. I'll drive.

re: Bears. Some people think they are cute scrounging around in their garbage or eating their honied loves of bread off the clothes line. They learn. Sooner or later.