Story by Jon Hunt
Drinking water containing infected organisms can rapidly lead to a backcountry survival scenario.
Last spring my hunting partner and I were reminded of this possibility midway through our long-awaited Southeast AK brown bear hunt. Experimenting with luxury, we decided to rent a cabin rather than camp. Actually, the thought of a dry shelter on a remote hunt was a refreshing concept, especially a cabin with a kerosene stove.
This article was published in the Fall 2014 "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story by Jon Hunt
So now what? Imagine you are in a remote area, hours or days from definitive medical care. Your friend has been injured but is still breathing. If your level of training culminates with a basic CPR and First Aid course focused on the urban setting, then you will be quite distressed that you can’t offer your friend much help.
This article was published May 2014 in the "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story by Jon Hunt
Last season, the Tier 1 Unit 13 caribou hunt was slim picking. Fish and Game opened the season with bulls only, and it seemed we could only find the cows. Apparently, we should have been in Eureka, instead of on the Denali Highway. Nevertheless, we had a great hunt, and eventually found a few straggler bulls to fill the freezer.
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This article was published January 2014 in the "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story by Jon Hunt
“Once you pull the trigger, the work begins.” Oh, so true. This past fall, one of the hunters in our group shot a caribou in the early evening. Nightfall rapidly approached as we worked under the shared glow of a single headlamp (only one of us packed a light). As both arms were elbows deep in the cavity of this bull,
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This article was published July 2013 in the "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story and Photos by Jon Hunt
“Is the anything else I could have done?”
This was the question that an avid hunter recently asked when he approached my booth at the Great Alaskan Aviation Gathering where we were displaying a CPR manikin, AED (Automated External Defibrillator) and other first-aid \ safety items. He recalled recent events of a friend who had a heart attack on a remote fly-in brown bear hunt.
This article was published May 2013 in the "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story and Photos by Jon Hunt
After hours of glassing the panoramic Franklin Bluffs, I was anxiously awaiting the opportunity for a spot-and-stalk on the elusive Porcupine Caribou herd. It seemed that the only productive creatures around were the mosquitoes that were incessantly feeding on my blood. I couldn’t help but wonder: is this how the Egyptians felt during the plague of flies in Exodus 8:21.