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,"
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These guys are dorkier than me. Even I know about Alaska having long long days at this time of year. They were probably screaming for their mommies to rub the calomine lotion on their backs.
you said...I lived there for 20 yrs..just left last year..actually it was the couple of months of darkness that got to me..and the 50 below zero’s didn’t help..the 24 hour of daylight was, way too much party time...lol
Me, Me, drop me off for a week!
Fixed for the sake of clarity...
Girlie-men.
They should have prayed to Alexander Supertramp, the patron saint of mommy-coddled mountain men
Why am I laughing so much at this............. . Could we possibly send a few reporters etc to the back woods of ALaska and loose them? ;~)
I hope they are sent a bill for their frivolous use of the beacon.
Freak State Ping for the moron who can’t handle the wilderness that shoulda stayed in Bethesda.
LOL! Do they have golf courses there? If I could handle the mosquitoes it would be golf 12 hours a day.
These girly boys went back to DC to be near their mommies. What loons.
Agreed. I guarantee these were enviro-weenies hoping to become “one with nature”.
If they would have left them there for the bears, they would have become “one with nature” for sure!
Roasted wienies?
Liberals trying to survive in Palin country - laughable.
Dear Mr. Letterman, you are cordially invited to spend a weekend of camping in Alaska, Regards Sarah.:)
Great pix of Sarah and family fishing linked at site.
Love that big aluminium skiff.
“I hope they are sent a bill for their frivolous use of the beacon.”
...I think we’re going to see more billing for that sort of thing in the future...New Hampshire already has a “Negligent Hiker Law” where they bill you for costs...if you don’t pay they revoke your drivers license.
I get the distinct impression that neither of these two men have spent much time camping in the wilderness. Even a little bit of research would have told them what to expect and whether or not they were experienced enough for that kind of trip. I don’t claim to be Jeremiah Johnson, but even I know a week in the Alaskan wilderness is going to be roughing it a bit - especially for two guys who hail from the D.C. Metro Area.*
* I am, of course, assuming both men are city-slicker types, and not transplanted mountain men.
No,
Just typical D.C. gubmint types.
Dumb as hell.
Just saw the movie last night on cable. Had to laugh when I saw him shooting the .22 rifle. So, he brought down a moose with 5 rounds? Damn fine shootin, there dude!
These clowns were probably Rat operatives.
Then start with John McCain who continues to vote against ANWR each time it comes up to vote.
We call people like these guys the "3BO" crowd. Birkenstocks, backpacks, and body odor.
Last week, I believe our length of day had shrunk to 19 hours. Fall is fast approaching. ...sigh...
Cheechako
A new-comer to Alaska, ignorant of the terrain, the weather, the animals, the culture, the necessary driving skills in the winter, etc. Opposite of a sourdough.
“..couple of out-of-state visitors who wanted to be rescued after spending a single night in the Bush..”
Another teary-eyed survival in the hostile wilderness book deal in the making. DC home address; figures.
They were probably camping on Brokeback Mountain...
BAWAHAHAHA! Pikers! Bring on the sun!
For example, here is a list of state vegetable records set in last year's Alaska State Fair:
23-foot, 3 1/2-inch corn stalk
4.702-pound parsnip
1,019-pound pumpkin
17.195-pound yellow zucchini
67 1/8-inch long gourd
55.15-pound blue hubbard squash
21.530-pound bushel gourd
I had the opposite experience.
My experience, also, happened during the longest days. In 3 days, I basically did nothing but fish, sightsee and fish. I figured if there was sunlight, I should be fishing or sightseeing.
After 72 hours of the fishing and sightseeing and no real sleep, I became catatonic for about 24 hours. After that I limited the fishing and sight seeing to about 16 hours per day.
One reason some of the Beltway boys don’t like Gov. Palin.
They can’t keep up in her world.
Yeah, I have been camping with a platoon of my best friends in Alsaka.
It was called survival school...
LOL.
They probably just ran out of beer.
"Calomiris and Grunstra claimed that they had been sunburned," troopers wrote in a dispatch. "They were unprepared to deal with the long day length and any further exposure to the sun.
Girlie Men. Girlie Men!
BUT This.....
Troopers say they got a report of an emergency locator beacon .... 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.is NOT funny. Bill their Nancy Boy City butts for every nickel!
I knew more about 'the outdoors' when I was friggen TEN than these schmucks! And I lived in CHICAGO.
This thread is killing me. LOL!
Now that I’m not being paid or ordered to sleep outdoors in nasty circumstances, I prefer not to go to out of the way wilderness areas. Embassy Suites is more my style, not Subsaharan Africa or Central America.
I don’t think they had problems getting lotion on their backs.
Been there, done that - well, the Persion Gulf, not Africa.
We now camp in a cabin. I like it.
It has a en suite, too - a mulch bucket.
LOL.
LOL indeed.
I haven’t even started with any of the ‘end of the roader’ stories so loved here.
Hot there? Hit 81 at The Ted and was 90 at the air base. People were fainting in the parking lots - crying and pointing the sky - screaming “it’s on fire, it’s on fire”.
Even the bears are keeping cool at Goose Lake
And had our first big urban firestorm yesterday - wife had to evac the school.
Whaddya think?-—they said “hey, precious, I’ll do you if you’ll do me?” Or maybe that ole grizzly might do both of us (for dinner.)
No - the weather is great! Only run the AC for about a week so far this year, in total. VA Power has to be crying in their beer.
81. LOL. Wuss.
Although it has rained so much, on a sunny day, you will see folks outside, “Ahhhh...it burns, it burns....”
I think a couple of Dupont Circle types convinced themselves they were ready to rough it, and freaked when they found out how far it was to the nearest Starbucks.
You can read as many off color jokes into that as you care too.
LOL.
I wasn’t crying. I was raised in SoAz and spent the bulk of the time in the USAF baking out on the ranges at Nellis.
Would like to have some of that rain.
We haven’t had a good rainstorm in over 3 weeks, unusal for this time of year.
The smoke from timber fires from the interior AND the Kenai have my eyes burning and vis is down to under a mile in town.
Guys from DC and Bethesda? That explains it.
Tree-huggers proven unfit to hug trees.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Here In S.E. Alaska outside of Juneau we’ve been in the high 80s low 90s for weeks. We’re LOVING GLOBAL WARMING!
Thanks for the laugh. Those of us who actually live in the Alaskan Bush wait anxiously every year for stories about folks from the lower 48 who seem to think that their 3-day sojourn at the local KOA somehow qualifies them for time up north.
We love the light. You should see what it does to the garden. It’s great to be out at midnight fishing, or waking up with the light streaming in the window.
And the winter isn’t bad. Any day without mosquitoes is a plus. LOL
Someone should have told these two morons about the hunting laws concerning bears. We have very strict hunting regulations up here. The law allows the bears no more than four tourists every season.
Flowers are actually growing in the parks?
Last I was in SE - it was to visit Ketchican - ah yes, rain all day, every day.
Took a week to scrape the mold off my shoes. Lovely place to visit, living there, not so much for me.
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