Arctic Circle Inn Gift Shop and Lodge Coldfoot

... in the area history and information about the pipeline, the tundra, and permafrost. Our road destination is Coldfoot, 259 miles north of Fairbanks and 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle. About half of that distance is gravel road, and the paved portion is not in great shape.

Our first stop of the morning is Joy, AK, The Arctic Circle Trading Post. We have included a picture of Jane at this location. Our next stop was along the pipeline. The ...

... white and tender skin. It's hot, around 80s, and their summer is short, so I guess she had little chance to wear so little. But the sight was funny, with me dressed in long shirts and pants, head covered with net, sneakers on my feet, except gloves, all my body was covered up. She's just open to these biting mosquitos, but I didn't see bumps or bites on her skin. Maybe these mos can ...

Today was another cloudy day in Alaska, so after an excellent breakfast of fresh fruit and yogurt, and packing a box lunch for the road, I went on a tour of Deadhorse. Chris, the tour guide worked in the oil business for twenty six years, has retired, and now returns every summer to tour people through the complex. Deadhorse is not a town, it is an industrial complex completely owned and operated by ...

... spans the giant river. We filled up our tanks, bought coffee and snacks, and looked at local crafts made by a woman who lives with her family five miles up the river, accessible only by boat. They built their log cabin there by hand "with only a chainsaw" five years ago and trap animals, living off the land and selling pelts and other crafts for extra spending money. She offered us a purse made from a real ...

Destination 245: km126'397 Mit Ersatz- Schlauch im Rad und bei blauem Himmel will ich in Fairbanks einen neuen Schlauch, etwas Proviant sowie einem aktuellen Wetterbericht herausfinden, ob es eine gute Gelegenheit ist, heute den Dalton Highway nach Norden zu bereisen. Dieser Highway fuehrt auf meist unbefestigter Strasse 800 km von Fairbanks bis nach Deadhorse, wo die letzten paar Meilen zum noerdlichsten per Strasse erreichbaren Punkt von Amerika bei Prudhoe Bay ...

... a very common thing up here and these are still changing the topography of Alaska. Anchorage had a severe earthquake doing a lot of damage and so the pipeline sits on a plate that floats on the stand that the pipe is on. The other reason is the permafrost which is the earth that is permanently frozen which is under a lot of Fairbanks and Alaska. It is the layer under the soil and is permafrost if it has not thawed in two years ...

So not quite the end... I managed to squeeze in another small trip before I left, though I had exams study for and assignments to hand in. I went Dog Sledding, it was a short ride cause it was -30 C and 9:00 am in the morning, but a great experience, always wanted to do it and now I can say I did. We ran with a ...

... wir Unt**schlupf für die Nacht fanden. Zu**st gab es jedoch noch viel zu **ledigen, denn **st mussten die Hunde ausgespannt und angekettet w**den, und jedes Ti** bekam eine Unt**lage aus frischen Tannenzweigen gegen die Bodenkälte. Anschliessend sägten wir Brennholz für den Ofen und schmelzten eim**weise Schnee, um den Hunden eine warme Mahlzeit zub**eiten zu können. Erst als diese v**sorgt waren, konnten wir es uns in d** mittl**weile aufgeheizten Hütte bequem machen und ...

... erhielten wir eine Einführung ins Schlittenfahren und standen bald selbst das erste Mal auf einem solchen Gefährt. Sa, 5.12.98 (Tagebuchauszug) Heute waren wir bereits zum ersten Mal mit dem Schlitten unterwegs und es war einfach genial! Wir fuhren während etwa 5 h und legten dabei gegen 40 km zurück. Zuerst ging es der Strasse entlang auf einen Hügel hinauf, und von dort aus noch ein Stück weiter auf einem Trail in Richtung Tozi, bevor wir die ...