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Old 04-12-2007, 04:51 PM
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Default RE: Dalton Hwy AK, Caribou Hunt

The Sag is pretty big, but it is extremely braided and in some spots it's rather shallow. Some people wade it, but like I said before people have died doing that. I believe it was two years ago that two guys waded it, shot a bou and while hauling it back they went in. One guy got out, but they found the other guy's body several miles downstream. That water is frigid cold and if you fall in you'll basically go into instant hypothermia. There's no 'bou in the world worth drowning over. You can rent a small inflatable in Fairbanks that'll get you across the Sag in one piece. Larry Bartlett's Pristine Ventures rents them out.

There is absolutely NO predicting which direction caribou are going to go. You can't even reliably predict which way they're going to go if you're looking at them. The only given is that they move and they move a lot. In the spring they generally move north and in the fall they generally move south, but they go every direction on the map while they migrate, and some don't really migrate at all. If you want an idea of how erratic their movements are just go to this link and look at the individual collared caribou from year to year. You can see how individual animals will go completely different directions and distances from year to year. They're called the wanderer of the north for a reason...

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