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Second Camp. Dragons Back in the background.
3 Ravens
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A lot of people in Alaska, mushers, don't care for ravens. They (mushers) say that the ravens spread disease from dog yard to dog yard.
Coccidia, which is what the ravens spread, is usually found in young puppies and kittens and for the most part it's easily cured. Back in the day, when I worked at the Animal Hospital, I used to do fecals like no one's business. I didn't really care for doing them, until I would find some thing, then it was pretty neat. Coccidia was a common one to find. Try looking at yogurt under the microscope, that's really cool. Anyway, coccidia usually attacks animals that have an immune system that is suppressed or if the animal is stressed. So in this case, the chicken or the egg? I can't tell you either way, because honestly, I don't know if it is true if ravens spread it, hell, they could get it on the trail too. Who knows.
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These ravens are very intelligent and can easily piss you off. Especially when you are the cook, well when it's my turn that is. One day, I was in my tent, slow day, taking a nap and imagining what I was going to make for supper. It was only half crew, so it wasn't going to be a huge meal. Brats! Who doesn't love a bratwurst? All the fixings, sauteed onions, mushrooms, red and yellow peppers; I could almost taste it. You know when you have those dreams where you do exactly what you have to do and you wake like you have already done it? That's how I felt when I woke up. I went to the kitchen open the door in the floor, our food is kept in totes that are kept on the glacier, this keeps everything above freezing. There in front of me, was a torn up package of bratwurst and a pack that had been tampered with. They went in up under the tent and some how grabbed the brats. "THOSE DAMN BUGGERS!" What was I going to do for supper. I had it all planned out in my head and had dessert planned too. Well, those ravens make you think. I used what brats weren't touched, cut them up and made Jambalaya. Hey, it worked and it was pretty awesome.
I could go on and on about the ravens and how much fun they are to watch, how intelligent they are and how much I truly respect and honor them, but I won't. I'll just show you some more photos of them instead.
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My love, my favorite. These two are a couple and they go everywhere together on the glacier.
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Then we have Madonna's Peaks. Another love of mine. These peaks are a little different. They are made of stone, not a fancy brassiere with tassels on it. Some thing about them that has always caught my attention. Maybe it's how they look so different with just the quick change of the weather. Just look and you'll see. These where all taken the same day. Granted, the quality of all of these photos aren't the best, but they were shot with my camera, but a different setting. This day I was also shooting photos that we sell on the glacier of "action shots" of the tourists. I liked to use my camera, I know it and the photos look better.
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These are the mountains off to the right, love the way the fog/clouds
looked when the sun was trying to break through.
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Last but not least, we have the helicopters. Without these fellas we would be up a creek without a paddle, or better yet, on a glacier without a way down! We have some of the greatest pilots at TEMSCO. Great senses of humor, which you ultimately need to have when dealing with some people, even dealing with us, we can get a little rowdy when we have our days off! Here are some photos of one of the pilots landing with tourists and it gives you a sort of idea of the layout of our camp.
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Back view of camp
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Coming in for a landing
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