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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wjschmaltz" data-source="post: 340655" data-attributes="member: 6150">Very long story short as I can make it: My daughter passed away from SIDS in March 2021.  Cancelled all my hunting plans for the rest of the year.  One of my closest friends who is a moose hunting/fishing outfitter in western Alaska was staying at my house in early May while he was picking up his airplanes for the year.  He basically told me I didn't have a choice and he had a moose spot to fly me into to check out in September.  I gave in and ultimately decided to fly in solo as a hunt with my daughter I guess.  My brother (who worked for the outfitter) came with me for a few days and flew out after day 3 to get back to work.  That left me with 6 days alone in the wilderness with my only way out being a float plane ride.  The last day the wind blew all day and I was sitting up on my little glassing tit at dusk.  Finally the wind let up and eventually went pure calm as I watched the pink sunset over the valley.  A single raven flew across the valley, came directly over me maybe 15 feet above my head and was doing it's hollow croak.  It eventually just kept flying off and its croak got softer and softer until I couldn't hear it.  And at that point the whole valley went dead quiet and still. Not a blade of grass moved or a very prevalent bug in the air.  Wilderness is chaotic, especially where I was with the wind, the distant mighty Yukon River, birds, beavers, mosquitos and other bugs, moose, etc.  But I mean true quiet that I don't think I've experienced in my life. The type of quiet you can only get by being in a room designed for it.  For about 2-3 minutes the only thing I could hear were my organs.  It was quiet and still to the point I wasn't sure if the world or my life had ended.  Eventually after about 2-3 emotional minutes, it was like someone flipped a switch.  The whole valley woke back up simultaneously and went back to its normal chaos.  So that's it. It was somewhat of an out of body experience all kicked off by a lone raven coming through the valley and directly over my head.  I'm a Christian man so I don't really know what the significance of it all was to be honest. Just an interesting story in the end I guess.  [ATTACH]51965[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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