Archive for December, 2008
Happy ChristMoose
Well this is the latest update from where i am staying over the Christmas holiday break, its going to be a holiday for me too as i want to have some time off from being on the road all the time, I am staying with a lovely family, Mike and Kristina Willing, they have a 5 acre country house and have been very kind to let me stay. I arrived back [...]
Kaltire
You may remeber a while ago last time i was in Smithers i slid into a ditch, and it was decided that i would have studs fitted to the tires, well Glacier Toyota were kind to sponsor studding the rear tyres to be Studded with small metal studs that work like spikes on golf shoes to the rear tires as they were new, the front tyres [...]
Beaver Creek
Its around the minus 30 mark and the pipes and water pumps inside the car that supply my camping water have frozen up, i had a comfortable nights sleep though inside my big thick subzero bag and with the diesel heater I'm ok but i guess the heat doesn’t reach everywhere in the car so some things are freezing up. I’m on [...]
Christopher McCandless
After leaving the Dalton highway and making my way back to Fairbanks i feel like i want to relax a little as it has been an intense few days up in the far north, i parked up south west of Fairbanks in a small lay by in a place called Nenana and the road conditions were very bad and i had seen a few cars that had spun off the road, [...]
Back in Fairbanks
Really horrid drive back from Coldfoot, terrible conditions blizzards, trucks were sliding off the road all over the place its taken me all day to do 200 miles and I'm tired now. It is such a Dangerous road and I have so much respect for the drivers who drive up and down every day. (more...)
Prudhoe Bay
775 I left Toolik at 2pm and turned north onto the Dalton highway, the road conditions were much worse and I was having to concentrate a lot more, just a single track was in use in the center of the road and when oncoming trucks come along I had to pull over and come to a stop as it is so dangerous that if your tire touches the drifted snow it [...]
Toolik Field Station
1086 Well I'm up in the arctic and last night was my second night up on the Dalton highway, the road was built back in the 80's by the Aleysken oil pipe line company and was the idea of James Dalton who its named after, the road is about 500 miles long and runs from Fairbanks up to Deadhorse and your horse would be dead if you rode up hear in [...]
On my own. Wednesday 3 December 2008 Temp -17
36 About a week ago Chris had arranged to get a copy of his birth certificate sent up to a youth hostel in Fairbanks and the hostel called Billies is a great place to meet like minded travelers we both made some new friends and Chris last night had decided to have a night with some of the people from the hostel and I decided to do my [...]
Arctic Blunder’s December 2nd Minus 40oC
23 Last night we left the engine running all night and the outside temperature has plummeted down to -40°C this is the coldest I have ever experienced in my life, Sweden was minus 28 but this really goes through you we are only 500 miles away from the most northernly point in America which is above latitude 70 and can go down to minus [...]
Fairbanks Alaska
33 Tomorrow we are going to start a 500 mile drive up the Dalton highway which is the furthest north that you can drive anywhere in the world, we will be 7 miles away from the arctic sea when we arrive in Prudhoe Bay the day after tomorrow. (more...)