It was late August.  I was living on my raw piece of Alaska in a 10’x10’ “Shed In a Box”.  Bears and floods had tested my mental constitution for months.  Then the sun finally came out.  The valley was beautiful and peaceful like the finale of a historic epic.  I thought I was about to […]

 It has been a long hard road but McKinney Makes Media has officially moved from its original home in Kansas City, Missouri to McCarthy, Alaska.     In May of 2015, I purchased five acres of undeveloped wilderness in hopes of starting a new life, and a new base of operations, in remote Alaska. I […]

 To celebrate the completion of season 3 of “Edge of Alaska” a few local coworkers/friends and I decided to get out of town.  Our destination was a glacial lake known as Erie Lake and the only way there was to walk.  We made our plan, finished our job, and waited for the day we planned […]

When I was a child I lived on a small farm outside of a small town in a small region of the United States.  It didn’t take long before I became comfortable exploring the miniature wildernesses that lie between the fields and started becoming curious about new sections of the world.  I quickly fed this […]