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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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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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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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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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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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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