Fantastic post George - thanks for letting us experience Alaska hunting vicariously through you all. It's particularly interesting for me as most of my hunting has to be done within the confines of rich/liberal suburban neighborhoods as part of a deer population control program and thus is, literally, about as much a polar opposite from the way you all hunt. I've always wanted to have the opportunity to visit and hunt/fish in Alaska though, so feel free to follow up with further updates.
I was pretty amazed by that as well, though I guess given how inhospitable the terrain is and how much of it you have to cover, it makes sense. It really stood out to me from the whole story though, as for the last two years I've been trying to hunt without spending much of any money (other than broadheads and other consumables) as it sort of undermines my whole rationale of "free meat."