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Welcome! Click the menu links along the top, see the adventures below, or use the search box to quickly locate the topic you are looking for. Please report errors to me at buck@bucktrack.com. Comments are appreciated. Enjoy your day!
Long Distance Hikes
River Journeys
Mountain Climbs
Hunting and Fishing
About Me
Floated the Goodnews (’86 & ’91) for 2 weeks at a time with four of my obsessive-compulsive fly fishing friends. Although I’ve free floated over 800 miles of rivers in
AK the Goodnews remains my favorite. It probably had to do with the sense of aloneness and
the purity of the wilderness in the top 50 miles. We caught 9 different species of fish on our first trip all on the same fly pattern. The river was amazing because of the mousing approach
to big rainbows. We loved those surface explosions. We hit the middle two weeks of July and caught fabulous sea-run dolly varden in the lower river. Great fish to 10 pounds..Paid the price when we came out on a dead low tide the first time, but the next we hit the village in 30 minutes from the mouth on the turn of the tide. Hope you enjoyed as much as we did.
Hi Ken,
You are a lucky man to have floated the Goodnews River twice. There’s nothing like a big rainbow hitting a mouse on the surface, is there?
Buck
Buck,
The new web site looks great. I have passed the link on to a number of my adventurous friends. We hope to make it back to AK when our daughter gets a bit older.
Paul
Hi Paul,
Good to hear from you. Glad you like the site update, and thanks for passing the link along. I hope you get back to Alaska soon and have a great time when you do.
Buck
Reallly like your website re-design, Buck! Very easy to navigate and fantastic info. Keep up the great work! I’ll keep hiking with you in my dreams…
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Julie
Thanks Julie, I appreciate that! It definitely needed updating. Say hello to Doug for me.
good info…..how much boat traffic from the lodge?……their lodge (seen on their web) looks like a small village…..so my concern is a guide an boats at every bend…..upper is remote ….lower is crowded?
Hi Mike,
We floated the Goodnews River about the third week of September, past the main guiding season. We pretty much had the river to ourselves. During the height of guiding season, I’d expect to see some guided fisherman, but if you float the whole river you definitely won’t see a guided boat on every bend.
Buck
Hi Buck,
Really enjoyed your pictures and stories of the Mississipi. The reason I e-mail you is because me and some friends are planning on kayaking the mississipi our summer going into our freshman year of college. We are doing this for the same reason you did it, for an adventure. We are doing a ton of research on our own but we would love it if you could give us some tips and maybe the routes you took and where you stopped to camp.
Thanks.
Gunnar
Hi Gunnar,
Glad you enjoyed it! Tell you what, please read through all my Mississippi pages and the questions and answers about the traveling down the Mississippi on my blog, and I will be happy to answer and questions you have remaining.
I hope you have a fun, safe trip!
Buck
hey
Love your videos your 700 mile float has inspired me several times. I floated 260 miles on the Kobuk in Sept.2010 18 days of sunshine, sheefish, grayling and northern lights . Not to mention caribou. Hoping to do the Noatak in the near future, when I do I will get your video. Headed to the Ivishak in sept. any advice for the char etc would be helpful. Keep up the great work. Im a professional wildlife photographer that hunts with a camera, its all good.
Didier Lindsey
Hi Didier,
Glad you like my videos! The Kobuk River must have been awesome. I’d like to paddle it someday. You’ll enjoy the Noatak as well, no doubt. I’ve never been on the Ivishak except for the extreme headwaters, so I’m afraid I don’t know much about the char fishing. If you are paddling that river I’d go early in the month, as late in September it can be wintery, but you undoubtedly know that already. Keep taking those great photos.
Buck
hey Buck
you will luv the upper Kobuk, we flew into Lake Mimikakoso sp? and avoided the canyon and its rapids, the lake was full of pike two of us caught over 100 in one afternoon, most less than 24 inches but all feisty. after Kobuk the river widens and you need a motor. sheefish and grayling fishing…well I cant even say it on here or I would have to shoot everyone that reads it. lol. If you ever have any questions on it feel free to contact me. keep up the good work.
Didier Lindsey
Hi Buck, I have just watched your journey 1,000 Miles Across Alaska. Velikolepno I currently live in Anchorage, I’m from Russia, my son Matt Larkin is familiar with you and gave your business card, you have met him and he’s very good of you responds. I’m in Alaska a second time, a lot has already seen a lot of time with Matt was on a fishing trip and travel on the Kenai, but after watching your journey even more love the rugged beauty Alaska. Ya will be here until the end of sentyabrya. Izvini for inaccuracies in the text, the translation from Russian yazyka. Zhelayu health and good luck!
Thank you Vladimir. I think Alaska resembles many parts of Russia, like Siberia. I hope you enjoy Alaska and that I get a chance to see Russia some day. Buck
Hello Bruce,
I’ve found you from http://www.iliamnaair.com. I’ve tried to connect with the owners of that page. But I their email is useless. Do you know them?
I’m very interested to contact with them. I would greatly appreciate if you could help me.
Thank you in advance
Oftentimes air taxis get swamped with emails and they don’t get answered for a long time, if at all. I’d suggest calling the phone numbers on their website. Good luck!