Good thing I just got home from Adak!

denalipilot wrote:Good thing I just got home from Adak!

May I ask what you do there? I have always be interested in how people survive the Aleutians Islands?

8GCBC wrote:

denalipilot wrote:Good thing I just got home from Adak!

May I ask what you do there? I have always be interested in how people survive the Aleutians Islands?

There's a Caribou hunt on Adak. I'm no expert on how people survive there, but there's two scheduled Alaska Air flights weekly, and one big cargo ship per year we were told. Not that cold, really, just windy and wet. They call Adak the birthplace of the wind. There's about 150 people resident on Adak, mostly living and working in/ on old Naval infrastructure. Dutch Harbor on Unalaska has much bigger population I think with the fishing, but Adak has plans to develop its port too, including export of fresh water, of which there is no shortage. Very beautiful place. 15,000 frequent flier miles round trip from ANC, and 3 hr flight by 737.

-DP

denalipilot wrote:

8GCBC wrote:

denalipilot wrote:Good thing I just got home from Adak!

May I ask what you do there? I have always be interested in how people survive the Aleutians Islands?

There's a Caribou hunt on Adak. I'm no expert on how people survive there, but there's two scheduled Alaska Air flights weekly, and one big cargo ship per year we were told. Not that cold, really, just windy and wet. They call Adak the birthplace of the wind. There's about 150 people resident on Adak, mostly living and working in/ on old Naval infrastructure. Dutch Harbor on Unalaska has much bigger population I think with the fishing, but Adak has plans to develop its port too, including export of fresh water, of which there is no shortage. Very beautiful place. 15,000 frequent flier miles round trip from ANC, and 3 hr flight by 737.

-DP

That is very cool. Thank you for writing about your experiences in Adak. Amazing people live there!