Baling Wire — It saves lives

Everybody has their essential things that they need to carry with them when they go out into the wilderness; one thing I found is more important than anything is baling wire. Go back two or three years ago, I was headed out to an old gold mine off the Yukon River in the roughly 150 miles west of Fairbanks. Basically- middle of Alaska- middle of nowhere.

I decided to head on snow machine to blaze a trail and to see if I can locate an abandoned mineshaft. My thought was it would be easier to find the shaft in the wintertime instead of the summer. I can cover more ground on a snow…