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Minus 57 degrees!
Happy 2020! Jack has been seeing very cold temperatures up on the Dalton. It’s been as cold as 40 below around Fairbanks but closer to 60 below up north. Here are some photos from the recent weeks. Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and has a terrific 2020!
Click here to go to the Anchorage Daily News and find out what happens at these cold temperatures.
The truck’s long shadow
The truck’s shadow is elusive at first but toward the middle of the clip it comes out in all it’s glory and gets down with the funky music.
Driving into Prudhoe Bay
Chucky’s Corner
Here’s two 2-minute clips of a section of the road that is about 130+ miles from Fairbanks. At the beginning, Jack passes by Chucky’s Corner on the right. Chucky was a trucker who lost his life on that corner and it’s memorialized with the name, and the cross.
Bizarre convoy of track rigs
Travel to another planet with Jack when he drives by one otherworldly track rig after another. This might be the best video yet so don’t give up half way through when there’s a lull in the traffic…there are more of these crazy rigs coming! (There’s music but it’s quiet at the beginning.)
Audio from the road
Some of you have requested clips where you can hear real audio from the road. Here are two mixtures of clips with real audio in real time.
Hilltop Truck Stop, before heading north
Jack takes a break at Hilltop before heading down the road. This is sped up very fast so you can see the daylight fade. At some point the camera’s time clock locks up.
Trucks of the haul road
Here’s a mixture of clips where Jack meets a bunch of trucks.
Up and over Atigun Pass
This video is by far my favorite of all of them… going over and down Atigun Pass on a bright sunny day with the mountains as your only company.
