The Alaska pipeline

[Bob in Canada]

Olf Art
There is a thing they do here in Northern Ontario with the train that runs to James bay on Hudson's Bay that I've heard of but never done myself . Guys that work far up in the bush prospecting for gold and trapping tell the crew what mile marker they need to stop at and the train comes to a halt and lets them off with their gear in the middle of nowhere . At an agreed upon time a week , month or whenever later it will stop there and picks them back up . You have to have some real self reliant skills to step of a train a hundred miles from the nearest civilization in the dead of winter and say " see ya next month."

 

[540 mountain motor]

Whitebear :
It's amazing what a human body gets conditioned to . We had a break in the cold weather today , it went up to 32 degrees and I was at work with the winter coat off and working outside in a tee shirt and jean jacket .
If it went down to 32 degrees in August here there's no way I'd be out with a tee shirt . A 50 degree increase in temp in 12 hours just tells your mind and body " it's warm" .
The extreme cold starting at -40 and down past -50 is just beyond the imagination unless you've lived and worked in it .

Just read this topic, you boys are crazy! It was 72 today and muggy :mrgreen:

 

[akblackdawg]

Very unusual warm spell and lack of snow now. Very little snow this year, up until the holidays had a long cold spell around 20 below at night and 0 during the day. Rain today and they are calling for 47* high tomorrow, very strange. And you think your boats slide, try driving without studs on a road packed with ice and rain on top of it. But no worry, in another week or so it will be below 0 again. I'm talking about Anchorage area here, if you go inland to Fairbanks, it will average another 20-30* colder then it is here in Anchorage during the winter, and hot enough for AC in the summer. Bud

 

[Frog]

I spent 11 years fishing out of Kodiak Ak. Crab, salmon and herring. We fish the island, the Shelikof Straits and the Bering sea. I've seen so cold that the crab would freeze and spit their legs out as soon as they hit the air (making them worthless). Captain laid the boat in the trough washing the crew all over the deck, when I stood up my beard froze, I grabbed it and broke half it off taking some skin with it. The coldest I've ever been was on lake Trafford, FLORIDA ducking hunting. Damn near died of hyperthermia. I'm convinced it was the whiskey that got me in that mess "and kept me alive".

Guess what Alyeska uses on their snow remove equipment?? "GatorGlide" This making Alaskan pipeline workers smarter than some.

 

[Bob in Canada]

Akblackdawg;
We have had the above freezing weather also for the last few days . It's been raining , the snow is down to next to nothing and the roads are down to the bare pavement . Usually this is the time of year we get the - 46 to -48 at night and up to the - 30s during the day .
If this is global warming I'll take two please .

 

[Uhairball]

It hurts your lungs when you breath!!! If you live in a tent, its only -30 F. If you throw a cup of black hot coffee in the air, it comes down as black snow. Best to stay away, stick to shooting bunny rabbits and bambi......Bud

Emmitt, if you believe all of that then I've got a big bag of sticks and we can call it a Christmas tree! :lol: :lol:
They're doin' the same thing we here in Florida shoulda' done 40 yrs. ago to keep the Yankees up in New Jersey where they belong.

Alaska is magnificent, and it's only too cold if you forgot to dress right.

The downfall of Florida is air conditioning. If you weren't allowed to have it in your home or car, Florida would look like it used to back in the 1960's......