What is there to do in Alaska?
It's a very expensive place to visit. Most brokies find seasonal employment up there. May is the starting month for many jobs.
my mom tried to tell me to go to alaska instead of appalachia and I wanted to throttle her
>>2879880Alaska is increadible if you are an outdoorsman
>>2879880Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, snowmachining, skiing, any outdoor activity you can think of. The natural beauty of the state is completely unmatched. There are a lot of problems with the people, however.
>>2880032yes, many natives about>>2879880>What is there to do in Alaska?work at fish cannery
>>2880053Word is people who work at those canneries are constantly sick with colds and coughs due to the shared living quarters and chilly damp conditions. I recently caught the flu while traveling in a cold place and it was fucking miserable. Constant shivering, no appetite, hacking cough and fever. Fuck that. Give me a warm climate any day.
>>2879880lots to do if you're a linguist. learn and teach and Indigenous language. I learned at UAF but I think you can learn at community insitutions as well. The largest language, and easiest to find classes in, is Central Yup'ik, but you can also learn Gwich'in or Tlingit at UAF and UAS. Spend a few years learning and then you can start teaching. Get involved in the revitalization effort. Besides languages, the cultures are also very much worth learning about.Hard to find girls up there though.
>>2880368>linguist>classesfaggy monolingual larper detected
>>2880032>There are a lot of problems with the people, however.How so?
>>2879880see bears
>>2879880You shoot caribou, we have barbecue.
>>2880926The "native Alaskans" (i.e., Inuits and other aboriginals) have serious problems with both rape and alcohol. Also lots of violence while drunk off their asses.There was a pretty sad story I read a while back on some forum, some guy talking about how he got hired on a contract to do some repairs out in the oilfield, and he met some really nice girlfriend at a bar while he was out there. He was kind of shocked because he hadn't expected to pull tail that easily, and then she explained that because he was an outsider she knew he wouldn't be raping and beating her constantly, so of course she wanted to be his girlfriend.Anyway, you can 10X your investment by flying booze in to some of the "no alcohol" villages. Of course if you get caught they can try to throw you in prison for it. IDK how the law works about that stuff up there, there are some weird rules about local jurisdiction over tribal members vs nonmembers when you get into tribal law.
Get eaten alive by the flies
>>2879880Hug bears
Right now there are 5 cruise ships docked in a city of 32,000. You can come up here and people watch.
>>2886438>>2886438In remote Alaskan villages without a standard municipal police department, law enforcement is typically handled by Village Public Safety Officers though they are basically sometimes called by other names . VPSOs have limited law enforcement authority. For serious crimes, felonies, or to process a state-level arrest that puts someone in front of a state judge, they are required to coordinate directly with the Alaska State Troopers AND THEY WILL KNOW. Just because you are in a remote village though, it doesn't mean it's like that many villages have an actual PD with rotating officers who for example, live 2 weeks in the village and 2 weeks back home in say, Anchorage If the village handles an issue "internally," it is usually through a Tribal Court. Tribal Courts have jurisdiction over civil matters and internal tribal affairs, but they generally lack criminal jurisdiction over non-Natives. If a non-Native commits a serious offense, the tribe must involve the State Troopers to make an arrest. Regarding what he described, I feel like things are only that easy with women if you are in an area outside the Anchorage-Fairbanks bubble. The further you get from Anchorage, the more things are as you describeI will say, though: yes, the more of an outsider you are and the more you stand out from the local men, the more the local women will be interested in you. Just keep in mind that the dating pool is pretty small to begin with. I hope your friend scored with a hot Native chick!
I love this image taken by the Seamart.>>2890922Are they still docked on Juneau?
Thank God for inspect element.
>>2890984>Are they still docked on Juneau?Yeah. Well get a new crowd everyday until the end of September.
I want to go to Alaska for my next trip. Is Ketchikan as comfy as it looks? Is there enough to do there to keep me entertained for a full week?
>>2892694>I want to go to Alaska for my next trip. Is Ketchikan as comfy as it looks?How comfy do you think it is?>Is there enough to do there to keep me entertained for a full week?In the town proper? No. However, you could hunt and fish and hike in Alaska pretty much indefinitely.
>>2892716I've been watching videos and it looks like a quiet little getaway but I wasn't sure if it was worth going for a full 7 days.
I'm fascinated by Tenakee Springs.
>>2879880For the railfans here, the Alaska Railroad is an experience worth having. Much of the rolling stock was built in the 1950s, real tired-but-functional classics for what is technically still an operating rail line serving a developed country (old-fashioned walk-on service for homesteaders along the Hurricane Gulch spur, for example), not a purely touring/living-history outfit.
>>2880926>>2886438Having sat on a grand jury lately, it's a universal issue. Only two cases out of 30+ presented didn't involve someone drunk off their ass and I figure 80% or so were more white than any other ancestry. We're an attractive place for societal misfits and that comes with certain costs. Not too different from our wildlife - most are interesting, a few are dangerous. But weather, vehicle accidents, and foolhardy behavior are far greater hazards for outsiders.
>>2879880this has to be bait
I miss RadioShack.
