• 27
  • Jan, 2012
  • 1
Trust Your Instincts, Not the Weather Forecast
POSTED BY Bixler McClure & Krystin Bablinskas IN Featured Posts, Photographs, Recreation, Travel, Video
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A harrowing tale when a pair of sailors are slammed by an Alaskan storm. “I have a bad feeling about [whatever you were going to do today]. Maybe I shouldn’t do it?”

  • 06
  • Jan, 2012
  • 0
SCUBA Diving the Last Frontier
POSTED BY Bixler McClure & Krystin Bablinskas IN Announcement, Featured Posts, Photographs, Recreation, Video
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With its 44,000 miles of unexplored coastline, Alaska is truly the last frontier of diving. However, few are willing to take the cold, dark jump into uncertainty.

  • 30
  • Dec, 2011
  • 1
Whale Watching in Sitka: VIDEO
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Recreation, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring, Video
Whale Tale

Watch this beautiful, short video when Brett and Sierra take a break from herring fishing and witness the amazing whale feeding frenzy.

  • 13
  • Dec, 2011
  • 0
What the Fraser River Actually Teaches Us
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Opinion, Pebble Mine, Salmon, Video
Photo Courtesy of Bob Waldrop

Pebble Partnership video advertisement counterpoint: Does the historical performance of the Fraser River compare to the Kvichak and Nushagak Rivers where the Pebble mine is proposed? Can “hundreds of miners and several large open-pit mines” live next to a world-class fishery?

  • 05
  • Apr, 2011
  • 2
Forget Sleds: Fat Tires to Nome!
POSTED BY Sean Ruddy IN Advice, Featured Posts, Recreation, Video
The 9:ZERO:7 and it's Surly tires

Last weekend I decided to find out for myself what the craze is all about around winter ridding. I quickly learned the large tires are the key advantage in snow

  • 21
  • Jan, 2011
  • 0
Video: Boat Maintenance
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Chignik, Featured Posts, Sierra Anderson, Sustainability, Video
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This is a short video of us fishing in Chignik Alaska and taking a little breather before the 3rd opener. This is our second twenty-four hour closure of the season. The fishery opens and closes at different times throughout the season to allow time to meet the escapement goals. Closures can last anywhere from a [...]

  • 24
  • Dec, 2010
  • 0
TRA Video Update from Sierra
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Sierra Anderson, Video
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Quick TRA Update from Sierra. For more info on how you can be a part of TRA, check out our contributor page.

Merry Christmas everyone!

  • 23
  • Dec, 2010
  • 1
Paddling from Alaska to Seattle
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Video
www.paddletoseattle.com

This will be one of the first times we’ve featured content from another source, but without a shadow of a doubt, paddling from Alaska to Seattle needs a well deserved spot on The Real Alaska. (You can find a spot on TRA by Contributing) Watch this INCREDIBLE full-length video of a paddling team that embarks [...]

  • 10
  • Dec, 2010
  • 1
Video: Nature on the Alaskan Fishing Grounds
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Video
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On the fishing grounds, we are lucky enough to see wildlife that most people don’t see throughout their lifetimes. In this video, enjoy nature at her finest. Keep an eye for porpoise, whales, bears, sea lions and lots and lots of salmon of course! Discovery Channel, you’ve got nothing on this! Special thanks to fisherman [...]

  • 03
  • Dec, 2010
  • 0
Video: What is Purse Seining?
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Chignik, Occupation, Sierra Anderson, Video
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This is a basic run through of how we make a set. Purse Seining is one way we commercially catch salmon in Alaska.