Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’
The Durrells Alasaka December 6th
On December the 6th 2008 i was traveling from Fairbanks Alaska south west towards Anchorage, not far from Nenana i had stopped to assist a family that had slid off the road and down an embankment I helped to get their car safely back onto the road. I did not realise how this had affected them and how much this had meant to them and [...]
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 [...]
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...)