mtv wrote:

PA1195 wrote:I worked at five mentioned on Kodiak in 1970-71 and despite winter ice they were never warm enough to swim in summer. Intentionally...unless a hot sauna was close by.

Gary

As in the Queen’s Outhouse on Camp Island.

MTV

Nope the Refuge forbid the three of us from using that facility. We stayed in the old white shack next to the older Refuge cabins. I was there for six months in 1971 and after enough outdoor showers from a bucket with holes finally we threw some visqueen plastic over a frame and heated it and water with a coleman stove to bathe. On my break to town mid-summer I had to buy the plastic sheeting and cook stove. Roger Blackett was a thrifty supervisor.

In early October Park Munsey dropped off food for me - the rest of the crew had left. His lower windshield had popped out of the Cessna's frame on the way over due to rough water on takeoff from Amook Bay and while fixing that he disappeared off the iced up floatplane while I was hauling gear to camp. Soon he surfaced quite mad and crawled to shore. I had an oil stove going so he dried off some and departed ok. Don't know but maybe he didn't have a floatplane V-brace installed.

Gary

PA1195 wrote:

mtv wrote:

PA1195 wrote:I worked at five mentioned on Kodiak in 1970-71 and despite winter ice they were never warm enough to swim in summer. Intentionally...unless a hot sauna was close by.

Gary

As in the Queen’s Outhouse on Camp Island.

MTV

Nope the Refuge forbid the three of us from using that facility. We stayed in the old white shack next to the older Refuge cabins. I was there for six months in 1971 and after enough outdoor showers from a bucket with holes finally we threw some visqueen plastic over a frame and heated it and water with a coleman stove to bathe. On my break to town mid-summer I had to buy the plastic sheeting and cook stove. Roger Blackett was a thrifty supervisor.

In early October Park Munsey dropped off food for me - the rest of the crew had left. His lower windshield had popped out of the Cessna's frame on the way over due to rough water on takeoff from Amook Bay and while fixing that he disappeared off the iced up floatplane while I was hauling gear to camp. Soon he surfaced quite mad and crawled to shore. I had an oil stove going so he dried off some and departed ok. Don't know but maybe he didn't have a floatplane V-brace installed.

Gary

Man, my predecessors at the refuge were hard asses. Everybody used the Queen’s Outhouse for saunas when i was there.

Of course, the F&G folks there then weren’t as rough around the edges as you are Gary.

MTV

Shore ice finally forced ADF&G to extract me and used gear to Kodiak at the end of October. My job counting spawning Red Salmon and recovering colored disc tags became impossible so that was that. They sent a Grumman Goose to close up camps first at Karluk and then Fraser Lake. On a well loaded takeoff from Fraser once airborne the left engine started banging and apparently threw a connecting rod but the pilot Jim Starkey got the three of us onboard back down. No climbing anymore with that load.

We circled around the lake on one engine trying to get to shore. I guess there was no water rudder or it was at best ineffective. I fastened one of the outboards we were carrying to the right rear baggage door threshold and with it running against the torque spin we were able to steer to shore. Got to spend another night alive in paradise.

Gary