Alaska BS thread

Done and gone. Left last night around 8pm and walked into the house a couple hours ago. About a 14 hour commute to get there from here, even by plane.

 

Had both of these in the past week as well. Good stuff. The Hopothermia is right up my alley.

I feel like we ate about every 5 minutes on this trip, but actually we were in Anchorage for only a few nights and we made the most of it. Ate at Orso (it was OK, more of a nostalgic visit since we had our wedding dinner there), Midnight Sun Brewery was great for dinner. Just wish they could be open later. Breakfast at Snow City Café was great - the eggs benedict there are really good. Pizza at Moose's Tooth was amazing. Wish I could try everything on that menu.

And one more plug - Northern Knives on 5th street is worth checking out if you're into knives at all. Lots of customs & productions in stock. For us visitors, the lack of sales tax is a plus. The guys were knowledgeable and friendly. I picked up an axe I had been wanting for a long time but never had access to a stocking dealer local to me.

 

I might have to check that out

 

I'm down too

 

Any recommendations on places to see in Fairbanks?

 

Car museum

 

Chena Hot Springs, UAF museum of the North, I've never done it but there's a big paddlewheel riverboat you can ride on the river in town, Angle Rocks or Granite Tors are good hikes.

 

I've been pretty out of the loop for the last month. I was in an NCO Academy that finally finished yesterday. Any plans of a mod day, get together or trail run coming up?

 

not that i know of

I am pretty much out on the trail runs the rest of the summer.

Anyone wanna do a week day beer/dinner meet up?

 

We have to do something at the sweatshirt distribution meet, SDM for short! But, college starts on Monday so there goes all my free time.

 

I was almost always able to find an hour to grab a beer in college except for finals week And I did engineering.

 

Agreed there are those pockets of free time, for my first year at school though those were rather unpredictable. I'm hoping I can make a rough schedule though. At least so I can do something fun on the weekends!

 

Shoutout to Raymond (Ghost) for hooking me up with some bedsides after we moved a couch. Pics later hopefully, after I get some more things done.

 

I'm down for a beer anytime

Thanks for the help! I needed to be on the other side of bed decals

 

Still haven't had a break in the rain long enough to get a good pic...

 

Text inbound!

 

So.....anyone down for a meet in October???

 

I'm game.

 

When do you guys throw your studs on? AK law is Sept. 15th if above 60 degrees latitude (Anchorage is) and Sept. 30 if below. IIRC I would put mine on sometime around the last week of October, but before Halloween. Or just wait until the first hard frost/snow.

 

Pfft studs who needs those