Arctic Man

One of the big winter events here is an event called Arctic Man. It occurs in April at a place south of Fairbanks, called Summit Lake. This event involves a snow machine and skier and has been going on for about 24 years. Check the link for how the event is performed.

One of my friends, John Martin, has won the event several times. His skier for the last several years has been an Olympic skier from Poland. John's wife Pat is the one that designs and knits the Alaskan Table Runners seen on this page.

I have attached some pictures of this years event.

The wife and I are off to Reno tomorrow. Will have more on the trip on the Alaskan Marine Highway.

Summer is here

he tripod moved on the Nenana River last night, May 1. Missed it by a little over 8 hours. The Chena River has small bits of ice floating down. Next week is clean up day and of course that is the day we are having a garage sale. Anyone want to buy a boat.

I put some pictures in of the river and its effects on my garden last summer. The fence around the tree is to protect it from beavers. My neighbor up stream said he had beaver resistant trees. They lasted a week.






While I was working on this, I went back up stairs and it looks like the ice has broken free from upstream, my garden is flooded and lots of ice is coming down now. See picture and video. Since I took these pictures, I lost the pole that moors my boat and two trees