Frontier Safety and Supply is offering three seminars on Backcountry Essentials: First Aid and Survival. Get prepared for your next backcountry trip with a comprehensive overview of essential items you should always have on you while traveling remote. With Jon Hunt from www.FrontierSafetyAndSupply.com
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 6pm, Stage 1
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 2pm, VIP Room
Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 2pm, Stage 3
Location: Sullivan Arena,
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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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WHAT: Knik Canoers & Kayakers - October mtg. This is open to the public.
WHEN: Thursday 10-26-13 @ 7:00pm.
WHERE: Loussac Library, Wilda Marston Theatre, 3600 Denali Street, Anchorage
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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.
Frontier Safety and Supply is offering two seminars on Backcountry Essentials: First Aid and Survival. Get prepared for your next backcountry trip with a comprehensive overview of essential items you should always have on you. Practice fish hook removal, wound irrigation, and much more! With Jon Hunt from FrontierSafetyAndSupply.com
Friday, March 29, 2013 3pm Stage 1
Saturday, March 30, 2013 11am Stage 4
Location: Sullivan Arena, 1600 Gambell Street,
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This article was published February 2013 in the "Backcountry Safety" column of the Hunt Alaska Magazine.
Story by Jon Hunt
“Help, I have fallen and can’t get up!” We may laugh when we hear these words, but it’s not so funny when we are on a remote hunt and are in need of help. Each year the Alaska State Troopers respond to dozens of hunters who are injured, need evacuation, or are stranded.