Audiobook Clips - Tom Hron's \"Alaska Is Made Of Gold\"
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the drone will follow you like a trained dog taking amazing video all along the way and then it helps you edit your playback. It's scary how super humanly smart these personal devices have become and both have opened up money making opportunities that were unimaginable only short years ago. Imagine the awesome youtube videos that can be taken at my mini mine where there are bald eagles, bear moose porcupine at all running around every day right along with catching 20 inch rainbows and £50 king salmon. Now cut to a sales pitch for bags of Chaka gold concentrate and bottles of Alaska birch syrup. How cool is that? I was a bit paranoid about theft protection when I chose my gold claim as much as I hate to say it, the only thing people won't steel in Alaska is a red hot stove if there's any way to access your property dredges, generators, pumps and tools are like cash to them so you must protect your equipment. I did this by buying a place where the only way in and out is by helicopter, which was easy for me since I fly them. Plus there were a couple of guys at nearby airports who I could hire for sling loading and rides if I needed transportation embarrassingly I had overlooked something. You can't let a helicopter set beside a salmon spawning river for long periods of time because the bears will tear it apart. So I gave up on using my own helicopter, sold it and chartered instead All in all it cost me about $5,000 a year to run my mini mine helicopter rides included, which is something I can afford and probably no more expensive than owning an Alaskan cabin. No way can I go broke and I don't have to mow the lawn my mini mine is lots more fun, let alone interesting and has the potential of paying me back if I want to work hard since there's way more to do than just dig for gold. Who can't spend a few 1000 bucks a year for a chance to strike it rich, especially when you're having so much fun doing it. I had the wonderful experience of flying airplanes and helicopters all over Alaska Canada and the high arctic. Starting not long after graduating from high school, after trying a couple of quarters of college, my future became a no brainer for me. I begged borrowed and stole. Not really the money it took to get licensed as a professional pilot for single and multi engine airplanes, helicopters and float planes. Then, as luck would have it, I started my own aircraft dealership when I was 26 years old and specialized in Alaska bush planes and float planes which let me fly from the illusion islands to ST Lawrence island and from Bethel to arctic village in the brooks range and I've flown back and forth across Canada way too many times to count then all over the high arctic to places like Churchill Rankin inlet and york factory, which are all along Hudson Bay. I used to gas up my flow plane at baker Lake and fly to Chantry Inlet in the Falun River over what's called the barren grounds I've seen and done so many exciting things. I can't remember them all. But oddly enough, one of my best adventures was driving the haul road. I often describe it like traveling through the Serengeti plain in africa because I saw so many animals, caribou dall, sheep, Grizzlies, moose, musk ox wolves and more were standing alongside the road. It was truly an awesome trip. Here's a road where you can drive your old beater park, it someplace and explore and prospect to your heart's content. The only catch is you better know what you're doing or you're dead. This is as dangerous and raw as any wilderness gets. Which is why I wrote the chapter title Have Gun Will Travel