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11-17-2003, 08:12 AM
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Brook is one of the best builders and drivers I've had the pleasure of meeting up here, and his trip reports are always something that could be published in a book.
It's no joke; a lot of the wheeling up here multiplies the default "you could end up dead" factor by about 10...which is not to deny there's plenty of hardcore wheeling/wheelers in the other 49 states.
Makes our desert wheelin' look mighty tame!
11-17-2003, 10:49 AM
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ahh, a new catagory of purpose built wheeler- cool!
I was stationed on Kodiak Is. back in April of 1979 to Sept of 1980, but spent the majority if my time in the Aleutian Islands (from Attu, Kiska, Adak, Cold Bay, Chignik, and almost every other small port on the chain) and down thru the inland waterways in South East Alaska (Valdez, Cordoba, Yakutat, Juneau, Ketchican, Glacier Bay, and many more I don't remember) on fisheries patrol in the USCG. I only spent a few days in Anchorage, and saw the Glaciers south of town, and a Moose wandering thru the ground at the hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base. (I was there to have a ligament repaired in my hand- had a few days of medical leave to explore some)
I was stationed on Kodiak Is. back in April of 1979 to Sept of 1980, but spent the majority if my time in the Aleutian Islands (from Attu, Kiska, Adak, Cold Bay, Chignik, and almost every other small port on the chain) and down thru the inland waterways in South East Alaska (Valdez, Cordoba, Yakutat, Juneau, Ketchican, Glacier Bay, and many more I don't remember) on fisheries patrol in the USCG. I only spent a few days in Anchorage, and saw the Glaciers south of town, and a Moose wandering thru the ground at the hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base. (I was there to have a ligament repaired in my hand- had a few days of medical leave to explore some)
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11-17-2003, 06:18 PM
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Originally posted by crawler#976
...I was stationed on Kodiak Is. back in April of 1979 to Sept of 1980...
...I was stationed on Kodiak Is. back in April of 1979 to Sept of 1980...
11-17-2003, 06:27 PM
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man, that was better reading than most books. takes the term "badass" to a whole new level. like the icelandic captain who caught and killed the shark with his bare hands. reading that and now this makes me feel so little, and weak. like it was said, when you break your rig in the lower 48, you call AAA. when you break your rig in AK, you better hope you live to get it out.
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