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    Beer freezes in funny ways sometimes... I set this down and this was the result 5 minutes later. Was about 10 below or so.

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    Couldn't find the lighter fluid to light the BBQ... so a propane torch was recruited.

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    Loaded up to come home yesterday afternoon :







    Waiting for the rest of the gang to catch up - I pulled both sleds with the Skandic so that they could all go play out in the snow.

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    Loaded up and ready to roll back to Wasilla.

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    Well-earned happy hour!
    If you want a second job or a retirement gig, you could make those snow machine trailers. Maybe lots of people could use them?
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    I need my big screen again. Looks fun on this baby phone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Well-earned happy hour!
    If you want a second job or a retirement gig, you could make those snow machine trailers. Maybe lots of people could use them?
    I've thought about that. The real problem with doing something like that is the big skis we used - those are from this :



    It's a Ski Doo Alpine, a huge monstrosity that had one big ski and twin tracks underneath. We had one, and it just wasn't a good design - it was a good concept, but it was incredibly heavy, very easy to get stuck, had a weak transmission and because of those twin tracks combined with a single ski, it just didn't turn... and once you went off the trail because you couldn't make the corner and ended up in the deep snow, you were stuck. Then we'd unload the freight sled, unhook the sled from the machine, pull them back up on the trail, hook them back up, reload the freight and lash it all down again... it was a major pain in the ass!

    Anyway, Ski Doo quit making those Alpines years ago, so those skis are hard to come by... I'd have to find a good supply of really big skis like that. Oh, and I don't know how to weld... there's that, too!

    Still, people would definitely buy the freight sleds and there would be a really good market for them up here and in Canada too... I might do something like that down the road. I think I could sell them for $1k a pop as fast as I could produce them.
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    Great pics, NT! Thank you!
    Some of them look very similar to those of Siberian winter landscapes.





    I wonder if there are in Alaska here and there the cabins with with stoves, tables, chairs and beds, with a 3-5 days stock of food and wood enabling to survive and have a rest for hunters and those who were lost like we have in Taiga? The belong to nobody and when leaving, they leave matches, a part of their food hunting trophies and collect some wood what may be vital for other occasional people.







    In 1971 when I was a student I visited my cosines in Irkutsk in January. Their student company and me we went to taiga. After 4 hours we disaboarded a country train and found ourselves somewhere in the middle of taiga there was nothing around. There was no platform, no ticket office there, only one column with a kilometer sign.
    Then we walked for 3 hours through the forest to such a cabin the built a couple years before.
    We spent there 5 days and that was a Great experience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Balu View Post
    Great pics, NT! Thank you!
    Some of them look very similar to those of Siberian winter landscapes.

    I've never been to Siberia, but I understand that the terrain and weather is pretty much identical to Alaska. They're not very far apart across the sea, after all, so that makes sense.


    I wonder if there are in Alaska here and there the cabins with with stoves, tables, chairs and beds, with a 3-5 days stock of food and wood enabling to survive and have a rest for hunters and those who were lost like we have in Taiga? The belong to nobody and when leaving, they leave matches, a part of their food hunting trophies and collect some wood what may be vital for other occasional people.
    Yes, there are public use cabins all around Alaska, owned by the State. Usually people will coordinate with the State of Alaska if they would like to use one of the cabins for a weekend or whatever, pay a small fee, and they can use them.

    We leave our cabin unlocked for anyone in need of shelter, and it has been used before in emergencies - people who broke down on snowmachines in the winter, or boats in the summer. I have about 6 months of food up there right now, I plan on expanding that to at least a year's worth after I get the shop built this summer.

    In 1971 when I was a student I visited my cosines in Irkutsk in January. Their student company and me we went to taiga. After 4 hours we disaboarded a country train and found ourselves somewhere in the middle of taiga there was nothing around. There was no platform, no ticket office there, only one column with a kilometer sign.
    Then we walked for 3 hours through the forest to such a cabin the built a couple years before.
    We spent there 5 days and that was a Great experience.
    Nice! It's a lot of fun to go out into the middle of nowhere and explore new areas. We've done stuff like that before for recreation, but usually we're working these days when doing into new areas like that - and I prefer to go recreate at my cabin & work on projects around there on my time off.
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