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#239363 - 01/15/12 11:04 AM Re: 18 feet of snow in two weeks... [Re: AKSAR]
LED Offline
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Registered: 09/01/05
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Thanks AKSAR, very interesting. Gonna see if I can track down those books you mentioned. Looks like perfect reading material for camping.

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#239372 - 01/15/12 05:53 PM Re: 18 feet of snow in two weeks... [Re: AKSAR]
Arney Offline
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Registered: 09/15/05
Posts: 2485
Loc: California
Originally Posted By: AKSAR
Some good sources on early native life are the several books by the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. (Stefansson was one who did learn and adopt native ways.)

Veering a bit off course here, but Stefansson brought the idea from his time in the north that you could be perfectly healthy eating a diet devoid of all fruits and vegetables and just eating game (I forget exactly what game he ate, and whether he also ate fish).

He participated in a famous experiment at Bellvue Hospital in NYC where they locked him up and only fed him raw meat (and by "meat" I don't mean just the lean, red meat, otherwise you run into the "rabbit starvation" problem) for almost a year IIRC and he was the picture of health.

Of course, the population in Nome alone would wipe out all the wild animals in the vicinity if they tried to eat that way today.

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#239400 - 01/16/12 01:12 AM Re: 18 feet of snow in two weeks... [Re: AKSAR]
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Registered: 08/31/11
Posts: 1233
Loc: Alaska
Apparently Kobuk and Noatak have recieved their fuel shipment. Prior to the latest air shipment, villagers made a chilly trip to the Red Dog Mine, 23 miles away, to get fuel to tide them over:

"The latest Red Dog fuel day for Noatak took place on the day the village store ran out of diesel. So villagers formed a convoy of about 30 snowmobiles and freight sleds, and headed out in weather marked by temperatures of 47 below and, for the first 10 miles, dense fog......"

Meanwhile, at Nome they are preparing to lay a hose across the sea ice to start pumping fuel from the tanker. The tanker arrived yesterday, and is about 1/2 mile offshore.
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#243140 - 03/14/12 07:52 PM Re: 18 feet of snow in two weeks... [Re: Andy]
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Registered: 09/13/07
Posts: 378
Loc: SE PA
Originally Posted By: Andy
DD2's former home in Alaska, Cordova, has gotten hammered this winter. This town has no stoplights, one gas station and access only by boat or plane. Most winters are mild compared to places such as Nome or even Anchorage. This is extreme.

Story on MSNBC,com.

A video shot by one her friends last week. It's snowed even more over the weekend.

Cordova AK



Just a quick update. DD2 spent a few weeks in Cordova in February and early March. It hasn't stopped snowing there, averaging 6-12" every few days. This photo is from her friends at Fish & Game who spent a day with shovels and a Bobcat digging out one of their seine net trailers. The fellow in the picture is a little over 6' tall.


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