Alaska's River Highway: Supply Season on the Yukon
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- "Alaska's River Highway" documents the barging operation of the Demienteiff family as they deliver necessities of life to remote villages along the Tanana and Yukon rivers. ©KUAC 2000
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THIS IS 4/30/ 2023. I WONDER HOW THESE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE DOING. WHAT A WONDERFUL VIDEO OF THEM.
This is my first viewing of the video. It's very well made. My g-grandfather was one of the first to navigate the Yukon River. He mapped it. Other Captains tried to either buy or steal his map. It's on oil skin paper and still good as the day he created it. I also have his log books, licenses, and other memorabilia of his time on the river. He spent more than twelve years on the river. He wintered in Seattle where twelve children were fathered over twelve years.
Wow, hello, from a logger, log Scaler's kid. We still love that trip, and many up to fairbanks even though we only got to fish from Karl's in unalaska to Kodiak and afognek.
Thank you for hauling supplies to the tribal elders for "FREE". What a wonderful job you do hauling supplies by barges. The depth sounding system you use is excellent idea.
My family is from Woodriver,
A place that no longer exists.
Only a few short miles upriver of Nenana.
Many years of traveling the globe, and yet I find fewer and fewer people can relate to my way of life.
I fly freight in western Alaska and always love to see the barges heading up and down the rivers. It's really interesting to see them from a different perspective. Really well made film.
It's easy for those of us who aviate to look down on the efforts of those who toil along the surface as trivial. This documentary reminds us to be humble... and thankful.
A very, very special story. Well done Claude Demientieff. There are all kinds of men. Claude was definitely one of them. Respect to you and your family.
A BUNCH OF GREAT PEOPLE DOIN A TOUGH JOB AND LIVIN A TOUGH LIFE!! LOVE THEM ALL!!! GREAT VIDEO! 4/30/2023.
I used to live outside Galena in the early 70's (Campion Air Force Station). You can't imagine how tough life is in Alaska... or just how magical.
Every young person should be shown this and other videos like it in school. They would learn there is more out there than facebook, twitter, ipads, and shopping malls. Life should be an adventure.
We got a lot of this when I was in school in the 60s-70s. Made me want to become a physicist. I chose geophysics.
You got that right. There are two different worlds out there
Many people cannot live a life of adventure like this. People are tied down with adamant chains put upon them by Banks, Credit companies, and the oppression of the Capitalist system. Their minds are warped by consumerism and their bodies are sick through unhealthy foods and chemical additives. Many of the working poor live paycheck to paycheck. As Rousseau once wrote..."Man is born Free but everywhere he is in chains".
Life would be so much more interesting and fun it was more of an adventure
@@ut000bs good choice
Really enjoyed the video. I've lived in Alaska the past 45 years and this is one of the best videos I've seen describing the the way goods move on the rivers. Quite a difference from life in the big cities. It's a beautiful state with so many great people.
@Honeysuckle Blossom bob ross is right, plus at least anchorage is much less windy
Just stumbled across this video. As a young man, I worked on the featured tug boat Tanana way back in the summers of 1973 and 1975. Back in those days, Keith who is the featured pilot here of the tug Tanana in this video was first mate and he was great guy to work for. This video really brought back the memories. Boy do I have some stories about those trips down the Yukon and also about our time in port at Nenana!
Not a lot of trouble to get into in Nenana.
So what were the bronze levers for in the wheelhouse? I recognized the throttles but the levers operating in an horizontal plane? Please help me understand this if you can.
@@seanworkman431 The lower levers control the "steering" rudders (for steering when in forward gear), while the upper levers are for the "flanking" rudders (in front of the wheels [props] and for steering while in reverse)
@@maxwawrzyniak2507 thank you very much
That would be a great adventure for a young man
Love this video. Second time I’ve watched it and can’t help but think this is the strength and spirit the entire country once had. Now all we want is video games and our cell phones🥺
Brilliant as ever Heidi, you out these vids together so we'll..we always anticipate our Thursday Episode of The rum wench.. ⚓👍⛵💞
It may be 4 years later but I wanted to say what wonderful people Alaskans are. Community minded and generous like everyone is family. God bless you all.
Getting supplies, even mail, can be an adventure in Alaska's more remote corners...and are one hell of a lot of corners!
Thank you for this video.
Back in the day, I paddled a canoe down the Yukon from Bennett Lk to the Bering sea and saw several towboats headed upriver as I neared the midpoint of the trip. They were always hard up close to the bank looking for deep water so I always stayed on the opposite bank to give them room. I later worked as a Merchant Marine engineer in blue water mostly in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. I'll never forget the beauty of the Alaskan bush.
Wonderful program and people. I love the saying blood runs thicker than silt. I'm Dutch we know what that means. 😁
My great grandfather and grandfather on my mothers side were river boat captains on the Mississippi in the late 1800''s to the 1940's. My grandfather was the pilot of the largest stern Wheeler to ever run the river -- the vessel's name was in the Sprague.
This is pretty nice to see the man is related to me that drives the drives the big boat he took me to Alaska as a kid and I’ll never forget it thanks Keith
It was always my dream to homestead Alaska, but my life took me in a different direction but when i watch programs like this that spirit inside me wishes i was a young man again and i feel that familiar twinge of the Wilds calling me. I have never even been in Alaska but through many many programs I fell her tugging at my compass of life calling me but i cant answer her. Oh how I envy the People of the North.
there are men who are not young living Alaska. Maybe it's not to late.
Diddley 0651 My wife and I with our 16 year old son sold everything in 2016 and moved to Tanana where she is the school superintendent and I'm the facility supervisor. We just up and did it. I'm 52.
I'm also the city manager, (part time). I'm looking to hire a diesel mechanic in Tanana.
A Documentary from another time. High quality, not todays crap, No smart phone in sight.
There is no such thing as a smartphone, if it were smart it would turn itself off during working hours. Instead the phone both, I mean the bathroom is usually full of those that have no life of their own or concept of the work ethic and need to live it through their acquaintances posting on Twit and Assbook.
i always enjoy watching any older video about how things were done , or people survived n thrived off the land . Alaska to remote wildernesses always have a special place in my heart . i was born in the wrong time n place i would love to be on a homestead where cash has very little need . barter the spoils of hard honest work is where my heart needs to be , i enjoy hunting and fishing even though my body says no more . great job on posting this ;)
The rugged life you all have forged says everything about your character. If only the rest of america worked so diligently, not only on the tug boats but ALL the villagers as well. Your lucky.
Making a channel with the props is called prop dredging. I used to be a tow captain in the lower 48 and offshore long tow. Down here we have a luxury of maintained and marked channel.
Parents that had faith, determination and just did it anyway. It really is hard, but with the whole family pulling together, it's a winner.
This was an amazing documentary for the lifeline of delivery up and down the rivers! I truly appreciate this video and have much broader understanding of your family business! So proud of your dedication to continue on delivering to all the villagers!
Instablaster...
Wonderful educational film for adults and students. Hope this is shown in all schools.
A wonderful & interesting story about a family & a river. We have seen so many Alaska shows featuring people who live along the Tanana or Yukon that I’m familiar with maps of the rivers. What remarkable landscapes with all those twists & turns & what a resilient, remarkable family. Thank you.
Thank you so much for posting this. Learned something entirely new and so calm and relaxing. I like the quiet strength of the family.
This was common , 50 years ago
@Brian Bouley Correction, the people are so tough the work is not.
I was stationed at Mt.Denalia in the park service.We would take vehicles and drive down the AlCan. That is another world.
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Fantastic . . . . . . Thank you
Enjoyable video that makes me realize how difficult it was to provide life's supplies to those hardy souls that settled along the rivers and tributaries. It was humanitarian efforts that also required river skills, risk taking, people skills and non-stop hard work. Thank you for the archive footage KUAC Fairbanks.
Really good. I’m in Oklahoma, I’m forwarding this to some friends in Alaska, Remarkable journey all the way to the Bearing Sea. Hard to imagine how long that took.
Beautiful documentary.
GREAT video!
what a great family and what a pioneer spirit....great video
Great video
Thank you so much for this excellent, educational video and hope to see more, lot learned.
Ah yes, the flow of Ice Coldwater filtered by the ice. Refreshing and a blessing to those who pause and watch.
Amazing. I really enjoyed this.
THAT WAS EDUCATIONAL AND INTERESTING! THANKS!
Great video ... thank you so much
Excellent Video and Thanks.
This is a amazing and crucial resource. Life is a adventure. We have a friend who flew us into a backwoods cabin on a lake. I love it up there but I do love living in western Colorado. We just loved it up that way.
Damn, I really really enjoyed this.
Fascinating lifestyle! Thank you!
I appreciate you REPOSTING this.... thanks. Hope you get your clicks...
i used to work as engineman in m/v Yukon queen ll running up/down Dawson Canada our home port is Eagle Alaska....
Inspiring, informative and lovely footage. Thanks.
Awesome video....I am in ENVY of that FINE FAMILY!!
Thank you for a very nice video 😊😊😊
Fascinating!
Thank you, great to relax with during the virus of 2020.
Great Video, thanks
Beautiful!
Great vid learned more about the way of life in Alaska 🇺🇸🌷🐧🦅🐾 cjd wash state .
fascinating. thanks for sharing. would be a great life with great people.
What an excellent story. I really enjoyed watching:)
Great family and crew. Living a full life.
That is what you call experiencing life, as a family and leaning about nature, how it changes daily. I have lived in an RV for about 9 yrs now and am more in touch with nature than I had been for a long time. It is a rewarding life, as you are also helping others all the time. Not just a 9-5 job and go home, and put your feet up! Thanks for such a great video!
Thank you for posting this wonderful story.
Love these older videos wish i could have been there. It was this sort of thing got me into diesel mechanics.
THANK YOU FOR SHARE VIDEO
All Pioneers struggle to learn our path. GOD say's I will reward the work of your hands. This is literal. Good Job. and well done.
What a great show.
Way to go .
These people work!
I'd work for free just for the experience of the outcome.
Martha Dementieff, graduated from Harvard University. But the natives never ever mentioned their accomplishments. It was considered a shameful thing to self-aggrandize. Holy Cross had a mission school, now defunct, that rescued many native children from extreme poverty. It had teachers who were priests, brothers of the Jesuit order, and Sisters of Saint Anne. They also brought a priceless spiritual gift of Roman Catholicism. My mother went there, and learned many things associated with mainstream society. And I was there at the same time as Martha, her sisters and brother. A hard life, because we were without our families.
МАРТА ДЕМЕНТИЕВ ☦️
My son worked for Northland a few seasons.....oh the stories and experiences he had. The work is not for the faint of heart.
We were Army C.O.E in 1956/7. Dad found an abandoned paddle wheeler way up a Yukon tributary. He got some stuff off of it . I used to have a brass stencil plate that said " Steamer Tana".
Thank you: very enjoyable
Love this
Very Interesting. Great Video.
Thank you
Thank you.
Outstanding video! God’s beautiful creation and man working and surviving!
What a fantastic video, I do not think there are many better. You make me want to get up and visit and maybe work and live. I will pack my swag and get on that river all the way from down under.
Me too!
that was great!
Excellent video and info. Is helpful for my Yukon River expedition next year.
Good luck and have fun!
The river Yukon is their lifeline and the wood Ferris keep life ticking over for all of the people who live their people of Alaska help each other its a shame we don't.
Speak for yourself and your group. The folks I work with, live next door to and hang with are always there to help each others families.
Wonderful.
I really enjoyed this Video River's Way Of Life , I fished in the Mississippi River in Illinois , Missouri and Mississippi and The Pearl River in Missouri and the Missouri River I've never been on a Barge or a boat in any River but the fishing is still good from the banks of the Rivers.
Very enjoyable and entertaining
Nice documentary 🇬🇧👍👍.
It's amazing so many people can live there with ruinously expensive supplies and shipping costs.
I live in Tanana. Those barges delivery freight to us all the time. Cost is 15 cents per lb for stackable freight and 22 cents for things that have to be on top. So a 5000lb vehicle would be $1100 but a 5000lb stack of lumber would only be $750. Lowes delivers to the barge for $150. Everything in this video is accurate. There was a barge grounded out in front of the village for a couple of months last year while they waited for rain to raise the water level. I don't know how old this video is but its still right on track. Although I think that company closed or sold out, its now Ruby Marine.
Love it
Rivers got us there. best spots in town.
What a mammoth undertaking
What a great video. Keeping those people humble is not a problem, they are already. Hard to believe they run barges with almost no freeboard. So much risk for what must be single bottom fuel barges.
While I was stationed at Galena we received a huge generator, which we had to tow with dozers to the base.
For some reason I'm thinking of the gold barges of the black hills, a paddle wheeler with syphons in the front that sucked up land, ran it through a machine to get the gold flecks out, then spat the land out the back. I wonder if they could use something similar to clear a channel up the Yukon ahead of the supply barges to make it easier going.
Great video. Sure is different than going to Safeway or Home Depot
very enjoyable
same as in Siberia on the big rivers. 4 or max 5 month they are ice free enough for the ships to deliver everything from coal to sugar and other goods...
when he mentioned the ramona it reminded me there is a story about the yukon river in a national geographic magazine in the 80's , i think it was , it shows the ramona and it's pilot
Great show,I would love to work there on a barge
Cool~!
I found this quite by chance Whilst I have quite a lot of books on the Stern Wheelers of Alaska and Northern and Western Canada I have next to nothing on the modern scene.
Real hardworking money that built us.
I was stationed at a USAF radar site near Galena and they would deliver 500,000 gallons of fuel in the summer for the winter plus some food produces I believe . Very interesting to say the least .
@Brisdad53 I was in the boiler plant at that time , that spring of 73 they had a 5.0 quake down river some place , got there about Aug of 72 .
@Brisdad53 LOL there was a few things that went on that was interesting . I was the NCOIC of the boiler plant so didn't get to know everyone but one time I asked the civilian over the engineering section for a ride down to Galena AFB an he said ok but can you help me with something sure I said lol , well we went behind supply an he loaded up a oxygen tank , he had a gold claim up river at ruby , well a few days later I was in supply ordering something an the guy there said , gee I wish we could catch Mitch stealing gas cylinders ,
I never asked him for a ride again lol . Did you ever go out to the cabin along the river bluff , a friend an I spent a night out there when there was still snow on the ground , the dam stove was terrible , every time we loaded it up it smoked back so bad we had to stand outside until the cabin cleared out lol what a cold night . :) I asked a scope operator once if he ever seen a UFO on screen , he said yes but no matter what the say an anomaly doesn't fly off at 5000 MPH , I always ask military guys that question , quit interesting what you'll hear :) .
@@airdrop1670 If you were there in August of 72, then we knew each other (I got there Nov, 72). And I WELL remember seeing things on my scope that traveled in excess of mach 5 (3000mph), things that neighboring stations like Ft Yukon and Tin City would also track. Never saw 5K until I started flying the EC-121. And if you're talking about the Campion Hilton, I spent a lot of time in that cabin, and think of it often. BTW, "brisdad" was hacked, this is it's replacement acct. Do you remember when the guy shot the bear out at the dump and it was hanging in the chow hall for several days?
@@maxsdad538 Sorry , he was stationed at a site in the northwest OR or WA on a mountian top an that's where he seen it , my bad for not being more accurate . As to the bear I was with the guy that shot it , I told him not a good idea , he wasn't a hunter an didn't think it thru , buck fever .
Makes me want to do it
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