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Long Alaska day too much for campers from Outside
Anchorage Daily News ^ | JAMES HALPIN

Posted on 07/09/2009 11:06:23 AM PDT by Species8472

The midnight twilight turned out to be too much for a couple of out-of-state visitors who wanted to be rescued after spending a single night in the Bush this month, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

Troopers say they got a report of an emergency locator beacon registered to Washington, D.C., resident William Calomiris, 27, that was activated near Pungokepuk Lake, 20 miles northeast of Twin Hills, about 8:30 p.m. July 1. An air taxi service had dropped him and Adam Grunstra, also 27, of Bethesda, Md., off at the lake on June 30 for a seven-day stay, troopers said.

Troopers alerted the Alaska Air National Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard and then diverted their own Dillingham-based floatplane that was in the area to head to the scene and check things out.

"Calomiris and Grunstra claimed that they had been sunburned,"

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: alaska; clueless; napl; notsarahpalin; outsiders
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To: patton

Those cosmos really got those guys adventurous LOL


61 posted on 07/09/2009 2:07:17 PM PDT by BeerLover NYC (ABC, baby now, 123, face surgery, 123, freaky dee, ABC, glad it's you not me!)
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To: BeerLover NYC

A-Mor-e...!

Wait, is that a bug? I think I was just bit by a bug.

And it is really sunny out here, too. I am missing my beauty sleep.

You have bags under your eyes.

Hit the rescue button!

Oh, I scratched a nail!


62 posted on 07/09/2009 2:10:34 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: Billthedrill

I’ll bet they’re college grads who could write goopy ad copy all day but forgot whatever marginal science their liberal arts education required them to take.


63 posted on 07/09/2009 2:37:57 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Species8472

Last year, we took our family on a cruise to Alaska.

My kids all know how much of Alaska we saw on our cruise. We barely saw any of it, and we covered a lot of territory.

My 12 year old daughter now shakes her head about drilling in Alaska.

She said that kids in her class thought that drilling in ANWR would destroy all of Alaska. She kept on trying to tell them how big Alaska is and that ANWR is only a very small portion of it, but the kids just didn’t get it.


64 posted on 07/09/2009 2:39:43 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Constitution Day

My 15 yos swears they HAVE to be homosexual.


65 posted on 07/09/2009 2:41:31 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy blue)
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To: Species8472; Slings and Arrows
WheeeEEEEEEEPPPPPPP! WheeeEEEEEEEPPPPPPP! WheeeEEEEEEEPPPPPPP!

Captain! Captain, the stars have all gone out!

Lt., how many times do I have to tell you, the stars only turn on when the sun is turned off?


66 posted on 07/09/2009 5:29:38 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, sitting in the Oval Office, where he ought not...)
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To: avacado
"William Calomiris, 27 and his partner Adam Grunstra, also 27, had a hissy fight in the wilderness and called off their engagement..."

Maybe it was the first time they ever saw themselves with the lights on.....
67 posted on 07/09/2009 5:32:37 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Integrityrocks
Here In S.E. Alaska outside of Juneau we’ve been in the high 80s low 90s for weeks. We’re LOVING GLOBAL WARMING!

Here in western Pennsylvania it has been the opposite. We would like to have some of that global warming back.
68 posted on 07/09/2009 5:35:53 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: ApplegateRanch; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
Chris Crocker

"LEAVE BILLY AND ADAM ALONE! LEAVE THEM ALOOOOONE!"



69 posted on 07/09/2009 8:40:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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Awww Geeez..


70 posted on 07/10/2009 2:47:28 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SoCalPol
One reason some of the Beltway boys don’t like Gov. Palin. They can’t keep up in her world.

Yep. Scares most of the country-club set, too.

71 posted on 07/10/2009 3:01:35 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: patton
Did you fail reading comprehension in school? (;-)

"The midnight twilight turned out to be too much for a couple of out-of-state visitors who wanted to be rescued after spending a single night in the Bush this month"
72 posted on 07/10/2009 4:15:22 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: hoosiermama

This is hysterical. I bet these guys didn’t vote for President Bush, or for VP Sarah.

Fools


73 posted on 07/10/2009 7:07:04 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Species8472

Drama queens.


74 posted on 07/10/2009 8:00:59 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: AFPhys

When my son first went to ALaska (fished out of Kodiak for two summers)...I kept reminding him that just because he was raised in the woods in So IN, didn’t mean he knew how to manipulate in Alaska....”Don’t be bear meat”

The first night there they pitched their tent in a beautiful valley under a gorgeous view of the mountains. The next morning he woke to the sound of loud grunting and snorting right outside their tent....

He said all he could remember was me telling him to stay away from the bears....Sheepishly he looked out of the flap of his tent to see a dusting of snow and the carabou and elk pawing the ground, snorting and pawing the ground to unearth their breakfast.

The next night they slept on a clift overlooking the ocean....a half dozen eagles perched on the tree next to their tent greeting them in the morning....Quite a thrill for a young hoosier....Today we have a pair nesting near our property.


75 posted on 07/10/2009 8:04:39 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Daffynition

So you really did find your daughter in the cabbage patch! I thought my mom was kidding.

Really cute.


76 posted on 07/10/2009 8:06:31 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: colorado tanker

They probably just ran out of brie.


77 posted on 07/10/2009 8:12:15 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Kozak

LOL!

Did you fail the double entendre lesson?


78 posted on 07/10/2009 8:24:33 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: DemforBush
* I am, of course, assuming both men are city-slicker types, and not transplanted mountain men.

Mountain men don't have "partners".

79 posted on 07/10/2009 12:31:48 PM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: Kozak

That is because the people who posted that on every damn thread have been informed that it quit being funny years ago.


80 posted on 07/10/2009 12:47:48 PM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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