Stampede Lodge Coldfoot

... certificates. This was our lunch spot, but the gnats were so bad, we had to eat in the van. Breakfast was way back around 4 am, so everyone was pretty hungry. Sixty miles further north, we were at Coldfoot. Our priority was the Arctic Interagency Visitor Center, and the all important National Park Passport stamp for Gates of the Arctic National Park.

Then, we rode across the highway to the Coldfoot airport. Three of us boarded a plane for ...

... when I was trying to fall asleep on the RV, I must have killed more than a dozen in the car cabin. Blood (should be mine) splashed on the window curtain and walls. What a fight! But these mosquitos were dumb, slow moving and easy to kill, compared to our Taiwan mosquitos, who fly so fast and can avoid the attach from electric mosquito racket by changing their paths in unexpected ways.

... take some pictures that show the road leading north into the pass, the road going south over the pass, the road going north over the pass, and the valley on the south side of the pass. The temperature increased substantially and the rain stopped immediately after descending the pass. We has to wait about thirty minutes at one point as a very wide load was being moved North on the highway. They ...

... scenic here but hey, it's the Arctic Circle! Apparently if you drive several more miles north, you can glimpse the Brooks Range but in this weather we doubt we'd be able to see anything and, already tired of driving, we turned back south. Antarctic Circle, here we come! Okay, just kidding. We arrived back in Fairbanks several hours later with a car coated in mud and ready for a beer and a nice night's sleep.

... Dieser Abschnitt war ueberraschend gut zu befahren da meist asphaltiert mit jeweils kurzen Schotterabschnitten. Ab dem Polarkreis wird es zunehmend Gewitterhaft - kommt etwa Regen auf und ich verpasse die Mitternachtssonne?? Bei Coldfoot tanke ich nach 420 Kilometern auf, doch ich befinde mich vor einem unerwartet massiven Gebirgszug (Brooks Range), der mir den Blick auf die Mitternachtssonne versperrt. Ich muss nach Norden wo es flach wird und ich keine ...

... US Forces) and those who are running away from something. It reminded me a bit of Kalgoolie - founded on gold. He said the red light district was called the red flower district as in Summer there is no need for lights. Everything was warmed including the footpaths in the town (about 35,000 people)where big pipes blew warm air produced by gas. Gold miners built gun barrel log huts - so called because if you opened the front and back ...

... team, only 4 because it was just me in the sled and the woman who hosted the tour on the back. North Pole: What a cool place. Went to where the pole was and even visited Santa and Mrs. Clause, they were so sweet. Got a photo sitting on his knee!!!! Happy New Year Everyone, hope you enjoyed visiting Alaska with me!!!

... einen Topf Essen aufwärmen. Auf diese Weise waren wir vi** Tage unt**wegs, bis wir schliesslich die Hütten **reichten, in denen Stan früh** jahrelang gewohnt hatte. Er war in den siebzig** Jahren von Boston nach Alaska gekommen und hatte dort vom Staat ein Stück Land **halten unt** d** Bedingung, dass ** sich dort ein Haus baut und eine Zeit lang an dem Ort wohnt. So lebte ** gemeinsam mit sein** Partn**in üb** zehn Jahre unt** härtesten Bedingungen weit ab von d** Zivilisation und ...

... unterhalb des Polarkreises gelegen, bewegen sich die Temperaturen zu dieser Jahreszeit im Bereich von -30° bis -40° C oder auch ein gutes Stück darunter. Besonders in Kombination mit Wind sind die Auswirkungen auf den menschlichen Körper, allem voran der Haut, natürlich sehr schnell verheerend und so profitierten wir noch so gerne von seinem umfangreichen praktischen Wissen. Mo, 7.12.98 (Tagebuchauszug) Gute Neuigkeiten zu Beginn: Stan hat uns angekündigt ...