Printable View
Brent running 22 dogs. Lol crazy Alaskans...
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed...=3134294092492
<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=3134294092492" width="1280" height="720" frameborder="0"></iframe>
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed...=3134294092492
Well blarg, trying to get it to post correctly.
It's May 17 and snowing this morning. The Yukon River is finally breaking up though. So far, not too much flooding.
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed...88379231298393
Cool vid. The only ice we get this time of the year.......OK........just about any time of the year is in our sweet tea.
There must be a awful ice jam somewhere. The weatherman is calling for mixed snow and rain today. Waiting for spring at the end of May gets to be a bit much.
Dear hubby was a laborer and worked up in Prudoe Bay when the facilities were built and the pipeline was going in. He worked for a long while at Atigan Pass camp. We were blessed to go up an live in Fairbanks in 82 and 83. He worked at a station on the haul road doing refurbishing of the science lab. He had a nice long commute up the haul road to work each day.
I was able to work at a fish camp on the Yukon and it was an experience I will always cherish. We got hitched at the court house in February and it was about 60 below.
We have been back south for many a decade now and my hope is for us to be able to to go back up and take the AL-CAN again.
This time we want to do the touristy things and enjoy the journey, not just working.
The benefit of going up when we did, is it allowed us to save up the money we used purchasing our tiny homestead here.
I have the much respect for folks who are able to make a go of it living in the bush.
Trident, thank you. I love hearing stories from the pipeline days. I was just born a bit too late.
Here is an uncut interview of my friend Sue who I am hoping to get to go visit this summer. All you single guys wanting to get away from it all, you might want to get to know Sue hahaha.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4314446/u...only-resident/
I saw her on an episode of the flying show that was done with the Tweedos(sp?).Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
Yep that was her.
Ask and you shall receive.
Click on the link.
Choose putlocker or sockshare.
Watch the countdown in the right upper corner.
When it says skip ad, click on it.
Click on close ad and watch as free user.
Click start video now.
CLOSE THE POP UPS
You don't have to download anything or register anywhere to watch this.
http://videobull.com/tv-shows/life-below-zero/
Poor Susan. It was so hard for her to be here for those 3 months. Also, she has pretty bad PTSD about the bear attack. She doesn't like talking about it but she does a bit on the show. You can tell she gets teary eyed anytime they ask her to talk about it. It was a pretty bad deal.
May 23. Due to our late winter, I just took all the hats, gloves, and artic bibs out of the back of the 4 runner today. Yay. Spring!
Right down the road from my house. Denali (Mt. McKinley) in the background. Sorry I am just learning to use my manual settings on my new camera and it was 11 pm so not too light.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...77031017_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...25337520_n.jpg
Full moon over the Tanana River.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...24177768_n.jpg
Midnight in the land of the Midnight Sun.
More fantastic pictures. Thanks.
Ah here it is on youtube. First episode: http://youtu.be/XuSJV6pNfOUQuote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
Second episode. http://youtu.be/7qDEMfGW5pY
Looks like we absolutely just skipped spring. It's 90 degrees today. Just 10 days ago it was snowing! Green up FINALLY happened over night two days ago. One day all the trees are bare, the very next day whole hillsides are green. I love green up. It normally takes 3-4 days though. 24 hours of daylight really helps.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...34457220_n.jpg
Great pic's ....Thanks for posting.
Tell Sue that my house is pulling for her, she is tough as nails from what I saw on "Life Below Zero."
Was really crappy to see that someone stole all her gas when she got back to her camp!
Published on Jun 2, 2013
Fairbanks, Alaska — Three days (64 hours) are compressed into this two-minute video revealing a remarkably fast spring greenup. This series of 3,800+ photos (one per minute) shows birch trees from bud to leave. Springtime passes by quickly in Alaska. This time-lapse series was photographed in high-definition May 25 - 27, 2013 with a GoPro Hero2 camera. Eric Muehling © 2013. All Rights Reserved.
http://youtu.be/NwRVIbTplBc
I'll tell her. I may be going up there for her birthday later this summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grey
Ah the new VW commercial. It has the midnight sun, it has a sign that says Fairbanks, AK, it has a Noble Street, it has a caribou. It is NOT Fairbanks. We have plenty of moose wandering through town, but caribou are herd animals and do not roam the streets of town.
http://youtu.be/2Mre7wIm9Lg
I'm going to go down to backpack on the Kenai Peninsula next month. Can you imagine sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean playing this song? I'm learning it now. It's fairly simple so is easy.
http://youtu.be/ZG8pYy4B-JE
Make sure you shoot a vid of it so we can all listen.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_...j7btE.facebookQuote:
Fairbanks man fatally mauled by bear
Posted: Friday, June 7, 2013 12:25 pm | Updated: 12:26 pm, Fri Jun 7, 2013.
Staff Report | 0 comments
FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks man was fatally attacked by a bear Thursday evening at George Lake near Delta Junction, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Troopers identified the victim as Robert Weaver, 64.
Troopers said they received a report of a bear mauling at about 6:45 p.m. The report indicated that one person was on the ground outside a cabin and that second person was seeking shelter inside the cabin and calling for help.
A trooper helicopter from Fairbanks, a Blackhawk helicopter from Eielson Air Force Base and a trooper in an airboat responded to the scene.
Eielson personnel found a person inside a cabin shortly after 9 p.m. and found Weaver’s body outside the cabin.
Troopers searched the area but no bear was located.
A black bear wandered on the scene, however, during the investigation and was killed by the trooper.
It is not known if the bear is the animal that killed Weaver.
The Department of Fish and Game has been notified of the attack and the death.
It was the black bear that killed him.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
http://www.ktuu.com/news/necropsy-li...0,743772.story
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...30277135_n.jpg
Best excuse ever for being late to work: there's a bear on the front porch, eating a neighbor's chicken! Thanks to Sue Bahleda for the incredible image!
Godamighty, what a sight!
I've said it before, black bears are b8tches!~
I leave tomorrow for my annual Fowl Adventure but this year will be sans kids. They are currently with my sister in Ft. Worth. First I drive 6 hours to Chicken, AK for Chickenstock. It is a fun music festival in the middle of nowhere. Then I drive from there 3 hours to cover the next 100 miles to Eagle, AK where I park by the river. My friends come pick me up in their boat and we go 7 miles up river, park the boat and take the ATVs a few more miles up a trail to their house. This is true off the grid living, in the middle of no where and I love it. Here are a few pictures of previous trips from my blog.
http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...6/img_3093.jpg
http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...6/img_4118.jpg
http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...6/img_3042.jpg
http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...6/img_1770.jpg
Here's the Taylor Highway. Yes, it can be a single lane and still be a highway in Alaska. This is why it takes 3 hours to go 100 miles. It also shows the river and the trail to their cabin. If you are watching Life Below Zero, my friends are Kate and Andy's nearest neighbors.
http://vimeo.com/27380355
That's awesome. What a huge chicken, too. Do you have a burning chicken at the end of the festivities?
You've done a great job with your posts on the Alaskan winter, I've enjoyed them tremendously. Thanks!
Wave as you go past the Hope Cut-off. Bring extra women. If you tain't never been to the Sea View Bar in "Downtown" Hope, Alaska it be worth the 16.8 mile side trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...Hope%2C+Alaska
http://www.seaviewcafealaska.com/bar.html
89.4 degrees above zero today..........http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/hop...orecast/341707
I'm back from the first trip of the summer. Awesome is all I can say about it. Two flats and a truck full of dust now (that last 100 miles is brutal). But it was worth it. Will post a trip report on blog later. Right now I am just recovering.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...14465626_n.jpg
And yea, I had the funnest time jamming at Chickenstock. I was invited to play with these guys. 4 guitars, a banjo, a dobro, 1 and a half (me) fiddle players, and two harmonica players. Fun fun fun and I learned a lot. Sorry the picture isn't that good.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...95341115_n.jpg
You go, girl!
Lovely, pics...I can just transport myself in #112.
That's the sweetest spot on Earth. Up on a cliff so you get the breeze and the sound of the wind through the leaves, right below is a fast moving creek so you get the sound of that too. It's an awesome place.Quote:
Originally Posted by BENESSE
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
Guess where I am going this weekend? Sue is flying some of us up for her 50th birthday. Should be great fun and quite the adventure.
Sounds like fun. I know we don't have to tell you to take lots of pictures.
Wish I was there! I really need to be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
I also wish Sourdough was there. I think it would recalibrate his POV and get him to take in the immediate and beautiful world we live in...here and now.
Forgive me all for stepping out of line and not minding my own bidness...I just felt I had to say it.
Yea, but would he be open to that? I don't know. Sourdough want to chime in here on this?
Quote:
Originally Posted by BENESSE
What is POV................?????