Q About NAT GEO Show "Life Below Zero"

Cafe Society
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Not sure where to put this, but since it’s related to a TV show…

This is an interesting show about people who live in the wilderness of Northern Alaska, mostly fending for themselves.

One woman lives alone near the northern tip of Alaska. She runs a hunting camp there. It appears to be completely in the wilderness, and a check on Google Maps seems to confirm that. Her website says the nearest road is 80 miles away.

Her camp is made up of shipping containers like on an 18-wheeler or on a ship, remodeled to be living quarters and storage and various equipment (generators, etc.) My question is, how did the containers get there? There is no road around, nor navigable water. There is an airstrip, but the planes that can land there couldn’t begin to carry something that large. In one show, she purchased a vehicle, but it was a huge all-terrain type and she had a long cross country trip to get back home.

Any ideas?

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Helicopter?

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I thought about that, but that would be a huge expense to set up something that makes as little money as a hunting camp. You’re talking at least 15 round trips from where? It’s 500 miles north of Fairbanks and at least a couple hundred from Barrow. There are probably some oil camps on the coast that are closer, but still.

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dog sleds have taken huge loads of furs. so maybe helicopter.

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As far as I can determine, the Kavik River Camp was originally set up as an oil exploration base camp decades ago. It was later adopted for recreational use. Oil companies routinely bring in things like containers using Chinooks or other heavy lift helicopters. That’s undoubtedly how the camp was put together.

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Sue Aikens is a bad ass. Here she is with Joe Rogan. Talking about all that remote living, her bear attack, pulling a gun on a client etc…