This will be my last blog for a week because in the morning we are driving North from Fairbanks about 4 hours putting Philips Jet Sled in the Yukon River and going up the river about an hour and camping on the river for one week where we will be hunting for moose. It will take two trips because we have five kids and five adults plus tents and gear and food for a week. It is going to be a lot of fun camping with my five grandkids, and Patty , Seth, Philip, and Shelly. We have 4 moose tags, and two grizzly bear tags, and with the moose tags we can shoot a black bear, caribou,  or wolf instead if we see one before the moose. If we get at least one moose it will take 3 trips out or more. We are bringing 130 gallons of gasoline in plastic barrels so we will have enough to make all the shuttles with the sled. We are also bringing a 16 foot canoe to paddle up the sloughs that run off of the river where the moose like to feed. I enjoy hunting trips like this more for the adventure than for the potential meat to eat, though moose meat is some of the best. I especially like having a great adventure with family, there isn’t much that is more bonding and creating of great memories. We did a lot of hunting and fishing trips with camping as we raised our kids, and in fact declared it to be our best tool for raising tough kids who could manage life well when they became adults because everything that can go wrong, goes wrong when you are camping and then we would teach them how to manage it and solve problems without going crazy. It is funny, when the kids were young we did all the fixing and problem solving and planning, and now they do and take care of us. I get my male, Macho,  hunter, fisher, camper pride hurt periodically as they take charge, but I guess that is the way it is supposed to be.