Arctic Circle Trip

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LOL, Thanks....just watched Ice Road Truckers last nite, was blizzards....?????
The TV can't be wrong.....LOL

I was thinking, or led to believe that the only time that road is passable in in the winter when the tundra is fozen?
Not true?

Not true. The road is open year round. The situation is though, many of the roads off of the Dalton into the oilfields are ONLY ice roads that are built up in the winter. The ice protects the tundra so in the summer, those sites are not accessible by ground as there are no ACTUAL roads to them. Also, the road, when covered with ice is a lot smoother then all the washboard and potholes that develop on the summer road so that is easier on the trucks (and the driver).

Either you are a midget's midget or that sign is very tall for a very sad reason. $5.19 a gallon? Jeepers. You're right next to the pipeline for cryin' out loud.

Great pics! Someday I gotta take that road. I'd like to drive it up to Prudhoe Bay and back. The "and back" is real important.

I'm 5'4", that is just a really tall sign. Yea we whine about gas prices all the time due to the millions of gallons of oil running through our back yard. But it's not oil that is in shortage, it's refinery. We have one of course but they mostly make jet fuel as our wide open air space is a world commodity.

Wow, looks like a great trip 1stimester! I am jealous and wish I could do that someday!

Well come on up. I'll be your personal tour guide.

They get ALOT of snow up there. I remember my first winter in Denver, the cop cars have their lights on scissor lifts that raise them of the roof several feet so they can be seen over the snowbanks!

That's hilarious!

Yeah, one small town we were at some place north of Los Anchorage had over 400 inches the previous winter. I can't imagine what they get farther north on the Dalton. [/COLOR]

We don't get near that amount of snow. Being land locked means we don't have the moisture that Anchorage does. Our snow is very, very dry. You can not make snowballs or snow men with it. It's like sand. Plus, it gets too cold to snow for a large part of the winter. The thing is though, once we get snow, it stays for the winter, normally from the first of October till May.

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Great pics! I'm envious!