Rhys Gibb, age 4, and Isle Gibb, age 7, pose mid-rainstorm for a photo with their grandfather, Ladd Norheim's impressive 2025 moose rack.
The first week of moose season has been relentlessly windy and rainy across Southeast Alaska, but there was a break in the weather on Tuesday, September 16 so Joe Willis pounced on the opportunity and harvested the first moose of the season on Mitkof Island.
"When I left in the morning, I told my wife, 'don't expect me back till after dark,'" Willis said.
"It was still really wet at daybreak... my enthusiasm level was not what you would call epic," Willis recalled. "The phone says it's going to stop raining about eight..."
Sure enough, the weather improved. "A half hour into it, it just got be...
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