bearhuntr, you' re right, under present laws!! The flying service pilot who told me this story said it happened in Territorial days, before Alaska statehood, and the laws requiring nonresidents to have guides! I don' t know!! It is possible that it was just one of those Alaskan " tall tales, like iceworms and snowsnakes" , which I noted can actually be better than Texas tall tales. One time the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce sent a delegation to Seattle to try to raise some funding for the upcoming Alaska Purchase Centennial. When they returned, a couple of them were interviewed on a TV news program in Fairbanks. The reporter asked them " How did they treat you in Seattle?" One of them answered " They treated us swell. Why, they even believed everything we told them!!"

I was there eons ago! I hope Alaska hasn' t changed too much! I was there from Jul. 1963 to Oct. 1966.