Spring at the lodge

Welcome to the new Hidden Inlet blog, undertaken at long last by a writer/partner who can procrastinate with the best of them.  We just want to let anyone who is interested in finding out a little more about this very special place on earth, know what’s going on up there, and share in some of our adventures and misadventures.  Chip, our winter watchman and caretaker par excellence, reports that it’s been the mildest winter in his memory of that area, which goes back 20 years or so.  No snow from the first of January till a few inches earlier this March, which is remarkable because when a group of us were up there working in April a couple years back, the snow was deep and packed and not at all conducive to letting us get the job done (more about that later!)  So, anyway, this blog will cover how this cast of characters, several Arizonans and some Alaskans, pooled their resources and talents and bought one of the prettiest little coves in the Misty Fjords (our spot is comprised of 23 of a mere 300 or so privately owned acres out of the nearly 3 million set aside for the national monument), and turned the tumbledown remains of a cannery in to a sweet little fishing resort.  Not the 5-star variety, mind you, which seems totally un-Alaskan and inauthentic anyway, but a unique and special experience to be had.  There’s been some bumps and set backs to this point, but things is looking up, with new management in place, eager to share our love affair with this spectacular little corner of the world.  There’s so much to convey about the Hidden Inlet — the beauty, the birds, the bears, the history and the back story, to say nothing of the fishing!  In fact, Chip writes of some of his catches this winter and torments the partners in the lower latitudes with his tales of white king salmon steaks sizzling on the grill.  More on all of this to come…