By alaska on
8/10/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from Temecula California. The 2001 gold prospecting season at The Cripple River Gold Camp is over. This season was a real success, with many people learning new skills, making new friends, and seeing and living in what may be the last unspoiled frontier—living the adventure of a lifetime, and also getting GOLD! People at the camp were very active until the last minute, with some people panning out their concentrates at midnight, with their plane leaving at 6:30 the next morning.
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By alaska on
8/3/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from Cripple River! The sporadic heavier rains seem to have left and we have days of light rain or overcast mixed with days of sunshine. The weather can be a little different up river at the other camps, but everyone, everywhere is more than ready for the sunshine.
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By alaska on
7/25/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from Cripple River! Summer is well advanced as far as the calendar year goes, but here at Cripple River it still feels like spring. The weather had been variable with several days of light rain alternating with days of bright sunshine.
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By alaska on
7/18/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from Cripple River! Alaska Weather is a popular topic of conversation particularly at the Cripple River Camp. The better the weather, the more you can be out and get that GOLD! Of course, even less than perfect weather doesn’t stop the serious gold prospector, but the nicer the weather, the more fun you can have. This week the weather was, (in my opinion), GREAT! There was a light misting rain, which kept the mosquitoes away, yet your rain gear kept you dry and warm. Several light layers of clothes made it easy to adjust yourself to the temperature changes
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By alaska on
7/11/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from Cripple River! You may have heard we had rain. Well let me tell you we really had rain. The third of July the rivers that border the camp on the east and west had risen to great heights, and even Edwards Creek was flooding. The rain also accelerated the snow melt, and Cripple River Camp was cut off from the rest of the world for about 36 hours.
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By alaska on
7/5/2001 12:00 AM
Greetings from all of us here at the Cripple River Camp. It has been somewhat rainy and windy, but the rain hasn't dampened the high spirits of the people here in camp. The first participants for the summer have arrived and the camp was ready for them. Gold is being found. In fact, a nice gold clinker was found here several days ago. Now we've all heard stories about someone finding gold in a serendipitous way, so here's a new story for you. As the camp building crew was leveling the ground for the new showers a mound of dirt several inches too tall was noticed.
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By alaska on
6/27/2001 12:00 AM
When the early Cripple River crew arrived in Nome, they were greeted by a late spring snow storm. The snow covered the beach road from the tundra to the sea. The road was impassable for the camp trucks, which meant the first crew had to make a chilly ride from Nome to Camp on ATV'S. The ride down the ice and snow laden beach was quite a challenge as they had to go fast enough to keep from getting stuck in the snow yet slow enough to keep from driving into a crevasse.
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