by Ashley Selden | Apr 3, 2020 | News
The trip out to the trapline was a lot different last fall than we’ve ever experienced before. We had to leave a lot later than usual because of Tyler working for Charlie doing moose guiding for Double Shovel Outfitters. Tyler’s Dad, Uncle and good friend...
by Ashley Selden | Mar 21, 2020 | News
I wanted to do a lot more writing this past year but our lifestyle is a demanding one. I wanted to write every moment down for my own records of this most amazing time in our lives with two beautiful souls we named Sydney and Blaze. Tyler was busy working, building a...
by Ashley Selden | Aug 3, 2019 | News
Whoo Hoo, We had a baby boy we named Blaze on May 24th! Blaze, as in, blaze a trail. Everything has been crazy busy for us since then and I wish I could have had a few hours to myself these last 2 months to sit down, be all by myself in my own thoughts and write...
by Ashley Selden | May 7, 2019 | News
I wasn’t planning on this to be my next writing topic. I wanted to write about our winter on the trapline but that will have to wait till next time. I’ve never written any details about our dogs before. This is because our relationship and life with the...
by Ashley Selden | Apr 10, 2019 | News
We’ve been fishing for chum salmon with a 50 foot buoy net for 11 years now. You’d think we might have evolved to expert level, but we haven’t. This year we repeated an old mistake out of desperation during the slowest run we’ve ever seen in...
by Ashley Selden | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Tyler, Sydney and I are back in town. Back to driving cars, spending money at the grocery store, having both wonderful and miserable encounters with our fellow human beings and instead of focusing on harvesting fur as we’ve done all winter we are focused on how...
by Ashley Selden | Sep 13, 2018 | News
Oh boy, it’s that time of year again. Time to get our stuff together and leave for the trap line soon. We have been heading out mid August these last few years but it’s looking like mid September this year. We are swamped by finishing up what we started...
by Ashley Selden | Jul 23, 2018 | News
Tyler likes to call summer the season of regret. There is so much to do and little time to do it. Before you know it your planning for the fall and half your list of summer work looks like it will be neglected for one more year. The days go by too fast! I feel like...
by Ashley Selden | Jun 28, 2018 | News
If you happened to drive past our driveway last night around 1am you may have seen a lady trying to get comfortable enough to sleep in the front of a single cab pickup, trying to wiggle and scrunch between the door and a babies car seat. She probably looked like an...
by Ashley Selden | May 30, 2018 | News
Here it comes, finally. Summertime in Alaska. A mad frenzy of visiting and soaking up the sun. Tyler’s been busy hammering away at construction projects and I’m busy being a homemaker, Momma, and gardener. Spring has been beautiful so far. Lots of sun and...
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