More Alaska Pics

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Here's a helicopter video I shot back in '09. We were working out of King Salmon and flying to the coast near Kodiak. Most of this scenery is Katmai National Park where the famous pictures of a bunch of Grizzlies standing at the top of the waterfall catching salmon in their mouths are taken.

Usually you aren't allowed to fly low in Katmai, but since we were working for the National Park Service on this particular job, we had permission to do what we wanted.

For some reason the audio cut out, but all you'd hear is helicopter anyway.

This was a brand new Bell 407 helicopter, it was a magnificent machine!

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[NightTrain]

2nd part of that video, the pilot gives us a little thrill ride... nothing like he did the next day, though. Need to find that one.

At 9:25, you can see the shelters we were slinging out to the mountain to replace the old ones. It was a long sling load, as I recall about 80 miles.

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