soooo. here I am. All moved into Torrington. Have the lower half of a house, nice yard, two bdrm, washer dryer, all utilities etc... $500 a month. Have been able to just focus on school and live on the money I banked from Alaska so its been fun. Seems like nothings out here at first but weve been everywhere from Estes Park CO. to Yellowstone. The ( Read more... )

So i went to prudhoe bay/ deadhorse for a few days. was more interesting than I thought. heres just a couple things I thought was cool ( Read more... )

sooo things are coming to an end up here. i have my Prudhoe/arctic sea trip tommorow then I might do ONE last thing next week and then im outta here! i realize i talk about the hikes etc but its been work up here too. I loved it but its still a job and I came up here to make some bank to get us ahead. I guess I should say that things were getting ( Read more... )

Getting there: so the plans last week: we had a ride to Prudhoe. We called the fairbanks office to book it and they said it changed and was only going to toolik which is a science post and the public cant get in. we arranged to go anyway and get dropped in the bush to hike over to fossils/camp etc. Then when we got picked up we were told it was ( Read more... )

Alaska news release ( Read more... )

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busy busy. Were the finish line for this race and the first racers came in today. A Kayaker won first ( Read more... )

most of my friends on here know this but some dont...just some cool trivia ( Read more... )

In the house I stay at theres a bullet hole through the 'living room' window. It passes on and exits through another hole out the kitchen window. OK this didnt happen this season but the story is weird so worth repeating: There was a guy who worked up here, I think his name was Andy. Theres a girl who still works up here but shes at the other camp ( Read more... )

so..my friend Micheal got stung by a yellowjacket today. Hes ok but the conversation turned to how two of us got stung so far and theres only 6 of us working here (+ our manager so 7). TWO of us are alergic to stings (not me tho...phew). In a medical emergency they send a helicopter from the air force down in fairbanks to get us. Its takes about an ( Read more... )