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Milepost 414
Deadhorse gas station
The pumps are inside the building - think about colder than -40 F and it becomes obvious |
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Milepost 414
Oilfield supply truck - 34 wheels and counting |
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Milepost 414
it takes a while to fill dual 200 gallon tanks |
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Milepost 414
Deadhorse Airfield installation |
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Milepost 414
Big diesel generators inside |
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Milepost 414
Deadhorse early morning street scene |
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Milepost 414
Atco-style (prefab) hotel building |
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Milepost 412
Looking across Lake Olivia towards oil field |
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Milepost 411
Active drilling rig |
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Milepost 410
Marshalling yard for iceroad equipment |
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Milepost 410 - 405
Central Arctic Caribou herd |
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Milepost 410 - 405
Arctic Adventure tourist Vans;
hunting Caribou with field glasses |
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Milepost 410 - 405
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Milepost 410 - 405
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Milepost 410 - 405
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Milepost 410 - 405
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Milepost 383
Franklin Bluffs in a different light |
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Milepost 348
Sagavarnirktok river looking downstream towards Arctic Ocean |
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Milepost 310
From certain points in the road, the pipeline dominates te landscape |
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Milepost 260
towards the Brooks Range and Atigun Pass |
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Milepost 260
going deeper into the Brooks Range; many of these mountains are over 7000 ft in elevation |
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Milepost 245
North side of Atigun Pass |
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Milepost 244.5
loking back north over Atigun River valley |
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Milepost 244
Herd of Mountain Goats |
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Milepost 244
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Milepost 244
Pipeline is buried in ground as it climbs Atigun Pass.
Avalanches would have ripped apart above ground installation of pipe |
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Milepost 243
looking south down Atigun Pass |
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Milepost 238
going down the Chandalar shelf in second gear |
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Milepost 189
Wiseman is off the Dalton about three miles. Mining and subsistence farming and hunting keeps a small community alive |
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Milepost 189
Wiseman - small open air collection of "things"
A boiler, maybe from a small steamer? |
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Milepost 189
mining machinery - hoists? |
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Milepost 187
Minnie Creek |
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Milepost 180
The large and the small; two women on bicycles.
How many days since they left Deadhorse 235 miles to the north? How many flats to fix? |
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radiators on top of pilings |
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Milepost 145
looking down into Jim river valley. What are those silver looking areas? ponds? |
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Milepost 145
No, they are huge meadows, filled with millions of these.
The common Dandelion in its blowing away stage
But from afar the meadows look like lakes or ponds |
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Milepost 145
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Milepost 132
looking back over the Dandelions from Gobblers Knob |
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Milepost 132
Pump station # 5 in backround at right |
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Milepost 98
Finger Mountain again, a few more miles and I will be back in camp |
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Milepost somewhere
an abandoned interesting 6x6 RV |
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Milepost 60
back at the Hotspot Cafe |
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