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re: Sun sets in Barrow, AK for first time in 3 months
Posted on 8/4/17 at 6:39 am to East Coast Band
Posted on 8/4/17 at 6:39 am to East Coast Band
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Barrow – now known as Utqiagvik
What is this shite.. Are we giving Alaska back to the Russians?
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Posted on 8/4/17 at 7:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Nah, just moved here for the hell of it. Never worked in the oil business
Cool. See, that's interesting to me. For some reason I've always been intrigued by why people move where they move, especially when it's a long distance away. If you don't mind me asking, what was it about Alaska that you had seen or heard that made you want to move there?
Posted on 8/4/17 at 7:02 am to East Coast Band
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Barrow – now known as Utqiagvik
What
Posted on 8/4/17 at 8:10 am to RidiculousHype
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. If you don't mind me asking, what was it about Alaska that you had seen or heard that made you want to move there?
I had read a lot about it. When I got interested I studied as much as I could to get a broad picture of what it was like. It felt like home before I moved.
Posted on 8/4/17 at 8:11 am to The Boat
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What is this shite.. Are we giving Alaska
Native uprising.
What is this shite.. Are we giving Alaska
Native uprising.
Posted on 8/4/17 at 8:37 am to gaetti15
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Winter you get like 4 hours of daylight; however the daylight doesn't get that bright. It's like being stuck in a continuous morning skyline.
The sun doesn't cross the sky the way it does here, closer to the Equator. It just kinda hugs the horizon.
Posted on 8/4/17 at 8:38 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I had read a lot about it. When I got interested I studied as much as I could to get a broad picture of what it was like. It felt like home before I moved.
Has it been what you'd expected? What has surprised you?
I was just google mapping, Juneau is actually further south than I thought. At first, it looks like you could drive in one day to Vancouver, but when you map the route it takes you way up into the Yukon and it ends up taking 38 hours. Is there a way you can drive due south from Juneau to Vancouver?
Posted on 8/4/17 at 8:44 am to RidiculousHype
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Has it been what you'd expected? What has surprised you?
Weather here is much more mild than I expected. I live in the Panhandle.
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I was just google mapping, Juneau is actually further south than I thought. At first, it looks like you could drive in one day to Vancouver, but when you map the route it takes you way up into the Yukon and it ends up taking 38 hours. Is there a way you can drive due south from Juneau to Vancouver?
Yeah, you would have to take a ferry to Haines or Skagway, Ak to the north or Prince Ruper BC or Bellingham Washington to the South. There is no road out of JNU.
There's been a plan to build a road toward Skagway for over 30 years but it keeps getting put off. Lots of controversy surrounding it. Still wouldn't connect to the highway system but the ferry commute would be much shorter. There's a decent documentary (22min) about it produced by Costa Del Mar
The Blue Highway trailer
This post was edited on 8/4/17 at 8:55 am
Posted on 8/4/17 at 9:07 am to The Boat
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Barrow – now known as Utqiagvik
What is this shite.. Are we giving Alaska back to the Russians?
I'm guessing it's PC for the Eskimo. Like it's not Mount McKinley anymore,it's Denali.
At least the Eskimo should be considerate and provide names most can pronounce
Posted on 8/4/17 at 9:12 am to East Coast Band
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At least the Eskimo should be considerate and provide names most can pronounce
Everyone still calls it Barrow. No one can pronounce that native word.
Posted on 8/4/17 at 9:48 am to Spankum
One of the most depressing places I have been too.
-50 and dark for 2 months, what the heck do you do for that long. Everything is frozen and white, mostly row after row of trailer like housing. After 10 minutes of sex it's tv and drugs. It gave me the creeps
I had a little girl (prob 10) get on the plane at Barrow and sit next to me. She told me she couldn't wait to get to Fairbanks and climb a tree, she had never seen a tree before :(
-50 and dark for 2 months, what the heck do you do for that long. Everything is frozen and white, mostly row after row of trailer like housing. After 10 minutes of sex it's tv and drugs. It gave me the creeps
I had a little girl (prob 10) get on the plane at Barrow and sit next to me. She told me she couldn't wait to get to Fairbanks and climb a tree, she had never seen a tree before :(
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