Arrival on the Togiak

I've spent the last few days assembling equipment and today we began loading five outboard motors, two WeatherPort tents and everything else needed to live and work on the river for the next three months into the airplanes.  After a 45 minute flight over some of the prettiest and wildest country imaginable we'll land on the Togiak River and begin the process of mounting boat motors and hauling gear down to the gravel bar that will become home.

The first planeloads contain ourselves and the boat motors.  The boats are tied up in the trees over the winter.  We'll haul the boats down and start mounting the motors while we wait for Reuben and Dan fly the rest of supplies out to us.

The pile begins to grow but there is still a lot more to come.

Reuben leaving after the last load of the day.

Home sweet home.