Above the Arctic Circle

[afrobigfoot]

Very fitting TR, kind of neat as this season's Ice Road Truckers was also filmed along the same road.

[2slikstix]

Cool. That is something your son will never forget.

[OEC4]

That is on hell of an expensive Scout Trip. What did the boys do to earn the money?

[pagamony]

It is, but much less than any private summer camp. On par with going to Philmont (did that last year). Biggest expense by far is the diesel. Then food. Cheap camping every night, and half the time for free. Usual fund raising plus a trip fee. Worth every penny.



I won't forget it either.

[OEC4]

On par with Philmont is cool. I hope the boys raised most of the money and the trip fee was not killer. In our troop, the boys had an account that the built up over the years to cover things like Philmont and Summer camp. If things were tight with the family, it could also be used to cover things like boots and Backpacks.

[pagamony]

same here. we have a fair amount of extra equipment and uniforms and such. its a very big troop, which gives us some slack.

[davidski]

@pagamony 181026 wrote:



And finally you reach the Arctic Ocean shoreline.









Out of all the great pictures you took and experiences recounted this struck me as the edge of the world -- a lot like the islands above Scotland



Not exactly a pretty landscape but unforgettable



What a great trip and experience -- (although I hear that it is a more enriching experience if you spend a little extra time traveling 400 miles on one of these:

[pagamony]

not exactly natural either. This place is called East Dock, where they built up the spit in hopes of making a port; however, the surrounding water is too shallow so it was abandoned. Funny that they discovered that after the work. It's a land of contrasts.



Fairbanks, btw, in the summer, is a lot like Eastern North Carolina: hot, sandy, pine trees and scrub bushes, military bases, bars, tatoo parlors, motorcycles. At first we thought we had traveled 4500 miles to be somewhere near Fayetteville, but once you move around it's obviously not.



I need to go back for sailing by Seward and camping in Denali. It's a really big place. I'll skip the antique bicycles.

[davidski]

I don't know antique bikes are at least as thrilling as numbingly slow fixed-grip lifts





Did you go to glacier national in conjunction with this trip and did you post photos from there? -- I only saw the one in the desktop thread

[pagamony]

yep. new computer setup now in the way. glacier report in the future.





btw, the islands above scotland, to which i have not been, are home to highland park distillery, makers of the best single malt on earth, imho.