Left Alone in Remote Alaska
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- This video the first day of my second trip out to our remote Alaska cabin.
This video shows some of the preparation that goes into making these trips possible, traveling from Tokyo to Anchorage, flying in a Cessna 206 to our remote property, and getting the cabin ready to be lived in for the next 8 days.
We appreciate you tuning in and tagging along for our Alaskan adventure!
Instagram: @bennichs
Chapters:
0:00 Preparation
0:55 Japan Travel
1:38 Arrive in Anchorage
2:07 Flying in a Cessna 206 Supply Run
5:32 Unloading and Left Alone
6:18 Entering the Cabin
7:19 Exterior Cabin Inspection
8:19 Uncovering Windows
9:40 Chores and Cleaning
11:29 Purewell Water Filter
16:32 Firewood Re-Supply
17:47 More Rain and Cleaning
18:17 Skunked Fishing
20:40 Previous Owner's Clothes
22:16 Thank You for Watching!
I just found your channel. I’ve been watching all videos. Anxious to see the future ones. I’m glad your talking in this one.
I'm happy you found us and are enjoying the videos! Talking definitely adds some clarity to the videos. Talking wasn't in my original plans for the channel, but plans always change. Thank you for watching!
Videos are definitely getting better. Appreciate the audio of you talking.
Looking forward to more to come.
Thanks
Thank you! There is definitely more talking this series, although I still don't feel natural doing it. We appreciate you watching and commenting!
Welcome back. Im glad to see and hear you back in Alaska it’s been awhile.
Thank you for another great video.
Thank you for the continued support! It's great to see you in the comments and hear you're enjoying the second trip so far!
Alaska....ultimate experience.
It truly is! I appreciate you taking the time to watch
Glad to see you back. Enjoyed your last series. I really appreciate how you are showing the fun facts and other info at the start of each video. The date time, temperature give an added dimension to feeling like we are “along for the adventure.” Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, it's good to see you back on the channel as well. I'll continue to add fun facts throughout the videos then, mostly at the beginning. I think there will be 1 or 2 more videos showing the events of 4 September; apparently I went a little crazy with filming and had the fresh energy to work on one project after another. Thank you for watching!
Welcome back! That bear tried it's best to snack on the cabin looks like.
Much appreciated, Matt! It was a short trip, but a relaxing and productive one. I'm happy the bear's interest in the cabin wasn't that great. Things could have been a lot worse!
Awesome 👍🏻
Really enjoyed the first season.
Cabin looks great
Thank you! There is more excitement to come in future videos of this trip. Traveling out there, cleaning house, and learning the high waters of fishing again was a bit tricky. Thank you again for watching and commenting!
The Cessna ride into the bush made me think of how it might’ve been to be Dick Proenneke riding in with Babe Alsworth to Twin Lakes…..glad to see more Alaskan cabin content.
The same thought goes through my head while riding in the cockpit, too! Although Dick and Babe flew through more mountainous terrain and landing on a much larger lake. What a great man and story, I love those books and films. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great to see you back!
Thank you! We appreciate you watching and commenting!
Another channel, " Simple Living Alaska" features a couple, Eric and Arielle Illias, and some of their best videos, are just them going around doing their daily stuff. They built a huge quonset hut on their new property. Thank you for your service. I enjoy watching drone footage, time lapse footage, and when the person asks us a question! Yeah, someone mentioned a sawmill, to get building materials from the woods around you. Thank you for sharing, have a good week !
Thank you for the support!
Eric and Arielle have a great channel! Them, along with Shawn James and Dick Proenneke were a lot of the motivation for me capturing this journey (and future ones) on camera. I hope to save up enough to get a drone before next year's trip! then I'll be able to provide some drone footage of the lake and area for you. A chainsaw mill of sorts is also on the list. We appreciate you watching and commenting! And hope to see you back next week for the next episode!
I've been watching for you! Loved your initial episodes. I will miss your dad. Looking forward very much to chapter 2 of your adventure in Alaska! Stay safe. 5:28
Thank you so much! We'll get my dad out there again one of these trips. Living in Tokyo apartment the past few months, I needed some alone time in my 12' x 16' log paradise. We appreciate you watching and commenting! Cheers
@@OhashiOutdoors I know that feeling and need. It's not Alaska, but my acreage near rural Omaha has provided solice for my soul these last 42 years. My one trip to Alaska was 30 years ago and I can still somewhat satisfy that need on my memories of that trip.
Every man needs his rural place of solace, wherever it is. Who knows, maybe a second pilgrimage to Alaska will arise in future years!
Awesome video man! So cool to see the lake landing!
Thanks, Brother! It's a bit slow getting everything set up for the stay, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I think that's the longest canoe blade I've ever seen👀🛶!
I bought the canoe in AK from a man who was very tall... Thus, the paddle is too long for me, but I do my best to make it work. Great observation, and thank you for watching!
Glad to see you back. Cant wait to follow your trip. Probably not a high priority however when time permits you really need a dock.
Thank you for watching! A dock is on the list to build. I need to track down one more 50 gallon plastic drum as a float, then fly out some building materials.
Glad 2 see u again. Bear boards with spikes will help to keep those bear at bay. Might wanna think about covering your entry. That lock won't keep any bear out. God Bless you and yours.
Great thinking! I have plans to build some better shutters for the windows. I'll add a bear board for the stairs and door to the list. Sounds like I need to hire a beaver to fly out a bunch of building materials for all these projects! Thank you for watching!
@OhashiOutdoors Chainsaw mill and you have all the wood to make your own. What a blessing God has given you to mold your place what you see in your mind. In today's times you may need it more then you know down the road. I'm enjoying your journey so thank you.
A chainsaw mill would be a great addition! Most of the beetle kill spruce is past the point of making good lumber, but there are plenty of other timber options out there.
Hand pump well, solar or propane hot water setup for bath or shower, some type of road access for building materials. Been there done that.
おめでとう ございます!!! We haven't done done any of those things out there and are not sure if we will. Definitely no road access. Thank you for watching!
Great cabin bro nice location be safe out there cheers
Much appreciated! Will do, thank you for watching!
And I thought the Hollywood writers were on strike! Well done, Ben!
I had no idea you could take a float plane from Tokyo to Alaska :-).
Is there a well in your future? We dug ours by hand, but we did have 110v power, a sump pump and was young enough to fit into a three-foot casing bent over.
You didn’t show us the fish catch because you didn’t want to make us envious and hungry?
I am looking forward to the “snow” episode.
Looking forward to the next one - they are better than the last three movies I have seen!
Hope all is well with the family.
Thank you, Mr. Jud! I had a lot of time to think up that beginning sequence. Now I'm just shooting from the hip with whatever got caught on camera 🤣 I bet an international Tokyp-Anchorage float plane company would have some interesting Yelp comments.
As for a well, If we end up really making use of this property in the future, then yes. It would probably be either a hand-dug, or pile driven with a hydraulic jack-hammer. Given that my plan is to build redundancy into this place, the well would have a hand pump AND a pump powered off a battery bank. Thank you for watching, we hope you continue to enjoy the adventure! There will be some good pike fishing in another few episodes 😁
If I had a cabin that remote. They make sand filters better about the size of a beach ball or about 18 to 20 inches.. it's made for your small above ground pools that are about eight thousand gallons to 12000 gallons. And then you get to IBC totes. They're 275 gallons of each. I'd find a way to put them about twenty feet above my cabin.. flowing through the pool sand filter. And down into the cabin. All gravity fed.. get a small one in or 2 in universal pump so I could take and pump water from the lake up to the IBC totes about once a month. And that would be a good summertime water supply. The advantage of something like that. I'm sure that your water filter, filters aren't cheap. So if you pre filter your drinking water before you put it into your partner filter for drinking. Your filters will last longer. And I with a 1in gas powered pump they're small enough. And only weigh about 50 lb. When you need to flush your sand pool filter. You just hook it up backwards, and flush it with about 50 gallons of water. So a pool sand filter that holds like five 30 lb bags of sand. Mae lest you upwards of 30 years.. when used in that configuration.. but you should probably change the sand 10 years.. now you're probably going to say you don't need that much water capacity. But when I see you and your dad working hard all day long. It's nice to be able to take a shower. So if you get 25 ft flexible copper pipe half or three-quarter inch in diameter. And wrap it around your stove pipe. There are TH-cam videos on how to do it. Now you have hot water. On a gravity-fed system. Whatever your stove is running.. another thing you can do if you have that copper pipe wrapped around your stove pipe. Is you put a 55-gallon drum on the ceiling of your cabin.. so when you don't need hot water, the water comes out the bottom of the barrel and returns to the top of the of the barrel.. or halfway up from Center. When the stove is running and I'll create a thermosiphon. Just like a coffee pot,, what that does is that point heat the water the drum.. and create a thermal battery.. when you have a a metal or plastic drum 50 gallons of water heated to 200°. Inside your cabin. Your fire in your stove might go out at 2 a.m. that barrel will still be above 100° at 10 a.m... I know it's cooler wet days for it just takes the heat out of everything including you. The barrel full of hot water I'll take the chill out of the air. And as a bonus you always have hot water for dishes. Or whatever you might need hot water for..
All great ideas and thoughts, thank you for sharing! Those are all possible future projects either for this cabin, or a future cabin my wife and I build once I retire and we can settle down in one location for more than 2-3 years. You have a ton of great ideas, and I'm taking notes on many of them! Thank you!
@@OhashiOutdoors thank you for replying back so quickly. I greatly appreciate it.
Your so brave
🤣 Thank you for watching and commenting!
Hola,grandísimo !!!👏👏
Por lo que he visto en tus videos, eres un gran amante de la naturaleza👌
Y,por mi impresión hacia a ti,debes tener un gran corazón lleno de humildad❤❤
Gracias por ser así👌
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¡ Hola! Gracias por sus amables palabras her.¡ Gracias por mirar y ser tan solidarios!
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It's very cool video!!! But the black hair made me think about the witches 😅😆
Thank you! I don't know if that is a good or bad thing. With Halloween fast approaching, my son has recently become obsessed with ghosts and witches, so hopefully it's a good thing! Thank you for watching
@@OhashiOutdoors Good thing for 100%!! Athena is obsessed with the witches as well 😂
Tail ridge air, I don't think that I have seen so many seaplanes in one place. Looking on Google maps.. but that being said, and every single one of your videos you're flying into that cabin. So how did that cabin get built. The whole thing is interlocking tongue and groove.. even if you have an Alaskan sawmill you don't make that on-site. I'm here is the aspect of your canoe.. I don't know of any sea plane that can put a 17 ft aluminum canoe inside of it. Okay I know maybe two or three types but you're not landing them on that little pond.. the sea ducks that can handle transporting materials like your cabin and canoe are basically a floating c-130 cargo plane.. you should make a video on how bigger stuff like that gets transported to your cabin if you need it.. I'm sure there's a few viewers that would like to understand the logistics of how you put a cabin in the middle of nowhere where there's no roads..???
Lake Hood in Anchorage, AK is the largest float plan airport in the world! That's my primary means of getting to our remote cabin in AK because I don't live in AK full time and do not own a vehicle, boat, or sea plane in the state.
In my first video, you can see the 17' Grumman canoe strapped to the boat of an old 1950's Beaver Float Plane. That's how we get external loads (larger items like canoes) transported out there, although it is quite expensive. The cabin was built in 1984 by the previous owner, who was a bush plane pilot. Her and her pilot friends flew the pre-fabricated milled cedar log cabin out there in pieces and assembled it on site.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Glad yur back! What u got a glock 10mm for bear protection.
I wish it was a 10mm! It's a full one mm less, sadly, but still better than nothing. Once I get my proof of residency all sorted out, I'll be able to arm up more adequately in my new home state of AK. Thank you for watching and commenting!
AwesoMe video. I love this content. I’m not criticizing. I’m simply asking. Can you put hinges on the bear proof boards so they can swing down ?
Much appreciated, We're happy you like the videos! The short answer is yes. I plan to build some rustic highly bear resistant shutters for all the windows on a future trip and will use the current ones until then. Other projects include finishing fixing the foundation, re-building the dock, creating a flat fire pit area, renovating the sleeping quarters, etc.
Good to see you back, looking forward to more coming up! I'm going to make an assumption and say that you are ex-military.... if so, which branch? Also, did you fly over with your pi s tol? How does that work in Japan, are those allowed there? Following along. -Dusty
Thank you! USMC. Full disclosure, I got the pistol out there on my previous trip as I swung through Seattle. All I had to do this trip was bring a holster for it.
I can't even bring a knife in my luggage flying out of Japan without a significant risk of it being confiscated! So I bought a decent Benchmade to leave up there for the next few years. Thank you for watching and commenting!
@@OhashiOutdoors That was going to be my guess, but I didn't want to pick the wrong branch hahaha I'd take my chances with the bears before I tried Seattle without some backup! 🤣 Thank you for serving. I like you even more now. Best wishes. -Dusty
You're right, it's always best NOT to assume someone's service 🤣
Thats a large reason I'm setting roots and slowly transitioning my life up to AK. I think a guy has better odds being surrounded by moose and bears than some of those creatures in Seattle. Thank you for the support! It sounds like we are cut from a similar, if not the same type of cloth. Cheers!
You have some nice water filters you sure need them out there, I have a pitcher water filter, Britta, I can't drink this city water, don't know what they put in it but it don't taste good. You must have a sharp ax, you just wizz through them. Or you are a Macho Man !, Some one else must have had the cabin, left some nice clothes there. You should bring your wife over there some time. This is a interesting video. Hope you have a great day.
Britta filters are great for home use! We use a Berkey water filter at home, and the one I brought to our Alaska cabin is a cheaper version of a berkey. It's the filter quality that matters, not so much the stainless steel vessel. You can never trust what gets put in city grid water, you're a smart person! My wife and son are SUPER excited to visit the Alaska cabin with me. It's a lot of travel for a 3 year old (Tokyo to Alaska), so we are not sure when we will make the trip as a family. Soon, We hope! Thank you for watching!
You are very welcome, I'll be looking for more video, Hope to see your wife and son.@@OhashiOutdoors
Good to see y'all found your voice, will make your vids more complete. Don't see any guns for either hunting or protection, given there's bears about and the certainly know where you live? Alone in the Alaskan wilderness, hoping it doesn't turn into another episode of Scary Bear Attacks, y'all should provide some context on why your there, build your story a bit hey.
I'm packing this trip. If you didn't see the hip strap in this video, it'll be more visible in future ones. "Alone" might be an overstatement. Although there are only about 29 permanent residents in the geographic area, there is also some boat/plane traffic from fisherman, fishing lodges, etc. It is still remote and wild though! Thank you for watching and commenting.
What are those shoes that you put on at the beginning?
the brand is Lem's. It's a company out of Boulder, Colorado. I like them because they are light weight and have been durable up to this point.
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Thank you so much! We appreciate you watching!
Thats a long commute for a weekend at the cabin.
Indeed! That is one of the reasons why trips are so few and far between. I'll be lucky if any of us can make it up there in 2024; it all depends on what life throws our way, but we are ready for the challenge. Thank you for watching and commenting!
What do you do in Japan? My son lives there and does security work. @@OhashiOutdoors
Small world! I do security work out here as well. We'll be living here for about 3 more years, then on to the next place.
My sons first name it Timothy. Not sure where he works. his you tube is Tokyotim maybe you know him, that would be bizarre@@OhashiOutdoors
Despite being a small country, Japan is still large. I'll keep an eye and ear out for him though, the security business is pretty small out here. I'll also check out his channel, thank you for sharing it with me.