By Arctic Annie on
7/10/2009 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! The weather here has been unpredictable, hot and sunny, cold and drizzly, damp and sprinkley, then warm again. Then a storm blew in! For a day or so the mosquitoes and the beach miners both were put out. The Bering Sea turned the color of cold hot chocolate and each wave crest was topped with row after row of snorting, rearing, cavorting dazzlingly snow white wave-horses.
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By Arctic Annie on
7/3/2009 12:00 AM
Summer has come to the Cripple River Gold Camp again! The early crew has been out and about repairing the damages caused by the camp’s long and lonely winter vigil. We humans in the lower forty-eight wait for summer to arrive so we can again return to Nome Alaska. We come from all over and meet here, twelve miles from Nome, where the waters of the Cripple River and the Bering Sea come together to dance in delight and share secret kisses.
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By alaska on
8/8/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! Our final week of 2008 is upon us, and the most unusual summer in ten years is almost over, leaving many of us here sad about leaving our summer home.
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By alaska on
8/1/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! It has happened here in our camp again!!! It happened in the night and took the entire camp by surprise! Everyone is out looking and searching, hunting and hoping! What was it you ask? A kid-napping? Nope, we had a kid napping once, we just woke him up and told him to go outside and play! I’m talking about the fact that Pirate Tom “The Treasure Hiding” Massie has been at it again!
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By alaska on
7/25/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! The weather has been changeable, warm, then cool-ish, sunny then cloudy, calm then windy, dry then sprinkly wet. Sometimes all in one day, but mostly sun--shiny! YEAH!!! We even see some mosquitoes and are now looking for our bug dope again! The weather is not nearly as hot and warm as in years past but it is a vast improvement over the second week of camp!
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By alaska on
7/18/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! Today is cold and cloudy, with a light mist falling, and everyone in camp is hoping for a few bright warm sunny days. Tempers are a little shorter on cloudy days and after several rainy days without prospecting some people seem to be susceptible to infection by the scientifically proven, but little known, grumpius monsterious thingium.
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By alaska on
7/8/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! Things have been hot and heavy Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The weather has been sunny and eighty plus degrees leaving some of the people in camp complaining about sun burn! We did have some intermittent light breezes, but for the most part the mosquitoes were out and about! A herd of Musk Ox moved down into the willows just across the river where the camp’s old common operation used to be years ago.
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By alaska on
7/3/2008 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp, situated where the Bering Sea meets the Cripple River, north of Nome Alaska! Camp is fully open and prospecting officially started this week for the 2008 season. To all the crew and participant prospectors who have new to our camp, (cheechakos in Alaskan prospector parlance), a warm, warm welcome!
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By alaska on
8/8/2007 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! Today it is rainy and cool, almost cold. This is the sixth and last week of camp, and while many people are feeling a little sad, the pace in camp is fast paced. For people here for the entire six weeks, the time has flown by. It is easy to put off until later many of the activities you want to do, or places you want to go to, or even checking out that interesting gravel bar in the river when you have the entire 6 weeks of summer ahead of you.
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By alaska on
7/30/2007 12:00 AM
Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! Today is a beautiful day again! The light rains of yesterday and the day before are gone, and the golden sun is shining on our freshly washed camp. There are ten or twelve white birds sitting on the blue green water, with the sun shining off their snowy white feathers they look like pearls or snow balls bobbing and dancing on a sea of blue.
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