If you want to fly in Alaska, you pretty much have to be up there. Long, long ago I flew up there and our chief pilot flat told me "I won't hire anybody that isn't here, ya gotta make a commitment to Alaska first."
A lot of the posts seem really positive about flying up there, wasn't my experience - I wonder where they were flying? Galena or Bethel in the winter? So cold the Jet-A pumps don't work so ya gotta burn Avgas.... So cold ya gotta keep one running or you'll never be able to start again.
Summers in Anaktuvic, mosquitoes so big you dodge them in a king-air. Days so long you come home after a full day of flying and figure, heck I’ll wash my car and change the oil, when you’re finished you realize the sun’s still up and in two hours it’ll be your 5am show time.
And then weather reports are scarce and pireps are days old, runway conditions, awe who cares your flying the bush, runway – we don’t need no stinkin’ runway. Just remember if you’re flying beer or the mail the reported weather will always be good. And with that good luck, buried many many pilots up there, some very experienced.