A Mountain Man

Kimmy & I were invited to go ice fishing today with one of the locals. The drive took us up Iliamna Lake, through a stretch of land, past a few ponds up to the mouth of the Copper River. After an hour, a honda drove up with a load of wood being hauled. The driver was a man named Randy who, was, by all definitions, a mountain man. He lived alone on Pike Lake with his 186 pound Newfoundland and offered up his ice grips, some jerkey and threw out some memorable lines such as, "sometimes it's harder to stay alive then to die"

The drive back on Iliamna we came into views of mountains we can't see from the village. Our drive, distance wise, was as if we went from La Conner to Oak Harbor.


We never caught anything but returned a little bit frozen and caught sight of one of the "littles" leaving church.