Alaska is my home, come visit and leave your cash

[MonaLittle]

Ohh that looks like fun. There's nothing better than xc-skiing when the sun is out.

 

[thør]

Ohh that looks like fun. There's nothing better than xc-skiing when the sun is out.

There is minimal snow on our local trails. Not enough for the good skis, IMO. But, we do have lights on over 50km of trails so people can ski after work.

 

[MonaLittle]

The picture you posted looks what we have on a normal winter day. I have to head west to get conditions that you're used to. You're fortunate you have a snowy playground in your backyard.

 

[thør]

“Just outside of Koyuk we hit an ice shelf, resulting in a broken A-arm and a hole in the bulkhead,” Kidwell explained in a short message to KTUU as she flew home to Anchorage.

The girls are out of the Iron Dog Race.

 

[thør]

The picture you posted looks what we have on a normal winter day. I have to head west to get conditions that you're used to. You're fortunate you have a snowy playground in your backyard.

On a typical year, this is what it's like at my cabin.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/429988_1898381754898_1139737303_n.jpg?oh=7856b28837140afa65776da0c79f43b4&oe=558766F7&__gda__=1434331698_3394dd739537bccf7ffc675a6509f622

You are looking at the top of a 60" ski pole pushed down so that the tip is at the ground level. You're also looking at my Karhu's.

 

[thør]

http://www.adn.com/sites/default/files/styles/ad_slideshow_940/public/Fat%20Tire%20Bike01A.JPG?itok=kn_VlRty

Fat Bike Ride

 

[thør]

The reality is there's plenty of fake TV shows in Alaska.

 

[thør]

https://scontent-1.11404.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11021074_913112645378022_367546647091705537_n.jpg?oh=076b230299ad0c202587d03e79441d06&oe=558688EA

In a classic Iditarod moment, Dick Mackey beats Rick Swenson to the finish line by one second to win the closest Iditarod in history.

 

[thør]

https://scontent-1.11404.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10411054_10153600095333561_3327733224255011951_n.jpg?oh=758a41595089cf65a6ae70e96595931c&oe=55877159

 

[NHKitty]

Did you see...

the-remote-alaskan-village-that-needs-to-be-relocated-due-to-climate-change

 

[thør]

the-remote-alaskan-village-that-needs-to-be-relocated-due-to-climate-change

Before clicking, I would have asked, "Which one?" But yeah, I saw it.

Kivalina is not at a place that a village should have been located permanently. The Inupiat (and Yupik) were nomadic people and only were forced to settle into villages when the BIA made their kids go to school. And the BIA wasn't that smart about building locations, they just built where the people were, then. No one in their right mind would put a permanent village on a narrow spit along the ocean. Sure, it was a great place to hunt from, but not to live all year round. A spit is a temporary geologic feature, much like a bend in a river.

In the old days, people would just get up and move. Now, they need to have someone move them. But the problem won't go away. After they move, if the place isn't razed, the kids will move back and demand services. I've seen it before.

 

[thør]

http://www.adn.com/sites/default/files/styles/ad_slideshow_940/public/dalton_crash_cropped.jpg?itok=wOX_p5Ah

Oops!

(Note, Driver is okay, just bumped and bruised)

 

[thør]

Bike gets whacked, YouTube.

Alaska State Troopers investigating icy road hit-and-run

 

[thør]

http://www.ktuu.com/image/view/-/31432944/highRes/1/-/maxh/650/maxw/950/-/dfxm6u/-/DSC-6126--Custom--JPG.jpg

 

[thør]

https://scontent-1.11404.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11021187_10200173755102237_1309586175690551722_n.jpg?oh=064249bf36e3302219b62d37cb7e87d1&oe=5591D328

 

[thør]

http://irondog.tv/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/100_31081-1080x675.jpg

“I’ve done a lot of dumb things before, but I honestly thought this was the last."

 

[thør]

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/l/t1.0-9/p720x720/11034052_914307818601283_4983986152254833150_n.jpg?oh=427cbe3d06f41fae06c38eb5f36c3452&oe=5584F661

The difference between this year and last year.

 

[thør]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-44nVsUIAAWVTV.jpg

 

[Saint Peter]

“I’ve done a lot of dumb things before, but I honestly thought this was the last."

93 mph on the ice after dark?

Fuck.

 

[thør]

93 mph on the ice after dark?

Fuck.

It's the Iron Dog.

 

[Riles]

What is that?

 

[thør]

What is that?

Snowmachine race from Big Lake (near Anchorage) to Nome and then, to Fairbanks.

http://www.irondog.org/

 

[Not Normal]

When did they stop being called snow mobiles? And why?

 

[albertaboy]

Before clicking, I would have asked, "Which one?" But yeah, I saw it.

Kivalina is not at a place that a village should have been located permanently. The Inupiat (and Yupik) were nomadic people and only were forced to settle into villages when the BIA made their kids go to school. And the BIA wasn't that smart about building locations, they just built where the people were, then. No one in their right mind would put a permanent village on a narrow spit along the ocean. Sure, it was a great place to hunt from, but not to live all year round. A spit is a temporary geologic feature, much like a bend in a river.

In the old days, people would just get up and move. Now, they need to have someone move them. But the problem won't go away. After they move, if the place isn't razed, the kids will move back and demand services. I've seen it before.

Only a Government could budget over $100mm to relocate 85 households.

This happens in Newfoundland occasionally, the govt decided to stop servicing an outport fishing community, each household gets a cheque and move into town. The last one I heard was $85,000 for each household plus actual costs.

 

[thør]

When did they stop being called snow mobiles? And why?

Been 'machines for a long time up this way.

I remember talking to the village leader out at Ekwok back in the '70's and he said:

"When the 'machines got to be good, I shot all my dogs."