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teedeekay · 2 months

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Today in 2000 I got to see John Linnell and the Statesmen open for They Might Be Giants at New York City's Bowery Ballroom. One of the States Songs performed was a cover of Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska". Also, turtleneck 🙌

#john linnell #state songs #they might be giants #north to alaska #johnny horton

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filmap · 11 months

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North to Alaska Henry Hathaway. 1960

Town Point Mugu, CA 93042, USA See in map

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#henry hathaway #north to alaska #john wayne #ernie kovacs #california #point mugu #movie #cinema #western #film #location #google maps #street view #1960

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hag-o-hags · 8 months

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good sunset

#north to alaska

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mudwerks · 2 years

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(via North to Alaska • Theme Song • Johnny Horton (1960)

Why the video exists? no idea, but the audio is decent.

#youtube #Johnny Horton #North to Alaska #music #vintage #1960 #film

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sea-salted-wolverine · 1 year

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So there are some perks to living in a tourist destination. There are a lot of detractors mostly that you cannot shoot the tourists because you rely on them for your income but you have a semi captive audience with no context for any of the bullshit you spew. You can tell these people anything and they will believe you, the trusted friendly local. Now this is a very much Spider-Man situation where Great Power begets Great Audacity and even worse Responsibility.

My buddy goes on a run and when hes done there is a bar near a creek. So he wades into the creek because the day is hot and the water is cold.

Tourists ask what hes up to, with his running stuff he didn't want wet piled on the shore and him very obviously cooling off in the water. He says he's fishing.

But now here is why I am telling you this story. The universe occasionally aligns in such a way that we get to really really fuck with people and their perception of said universe. The opportunities do not come often and when they come you must seize the day. This is what my buddy did.

So this Creek runs through town and as a result of the highway and neighborhoods and culverts and roads it does not have a great salmon run. It's a short Creek the headwaters are only a few miles from the ocean it never had a great salmon run to begin with. But there are salmon.

One such fish brushes past my buddy's leg. Immediately he knees the fish like he is juggling a soccer ball and pops it out of the water, then slaps it out of the air on to the shore.

This is dumb luck. He could not do this again if he spent years training. Noodling (catching fish with your hands) is a thing that is legal to do with salmon but it is so much harder than literally every other way to catch salmon, including grabbing them with a garbage can. What he just managed is the kind of thing that should make you want to grab the fish and swing it around your head like a stripper with her panties off.

But,

He has an audience.

This is the opportunity offered by the universe.

He plays it cool.

He puts on dead pan straight face on and wades up to shore to grab his fish and nod to the tourists. Someone asks something and he assures them this is the standard way to get a quick dinner here. The tour guide has caught up with his group. He looks at my buddy and his fish and the general lack of fishing accoutrement. Without missing a beat, the guide backs up every ounce of bullshit out of my buddys mouth because if there is one true fraternity it is locals bullshitting stupid tourists.

#from the far north #fishing #tourists #alaska #salmon

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mammalianmammals · 5 months

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Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), in white winter coat, family Leporidae, Alaska

photograph by Loren Merrill

#hare #lepus #leporidae #lagomorph #mammal #animals #nature #alaska #north america

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herpsandbirds · 7 days

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Pacific Loons (Gavia pacifica), family Gaviidae, order Gaviiformes, South-central Alaska, USA

photograph by Choy Mears

#loon #waterfowl #gavia #gaviidae #gaviiformes #bird #ornithology #animals #alaska #north america

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introvertedswimmer · 2 months

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Raven from 2022

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typhlonectes · 10 months

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#travel #alaska #north america #USA #maps #memes #driving #car trips #geography

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folkfashion · 5 months

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Alutiiq dancers, Alaska, by Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers

#alutiiq #alaska #america #north america #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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highways-are-liminal-spaces · 10 months

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Deadhorse, Alaska

Taken June 2023

#deadhorse #dalton highway #arctic gothic #north slope #brown bears #eastern yellow wagtail #alaska #signs #my photos #my places #rlwtstcwtsv #oil fields #k

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snototter · 3 months

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A crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) sits cliffside on St Paul Island, Alaska, USA

by Isaac Sanchez

#crested auklet #auks #seabirds #birds #aethia cristatella #aethia #alcidae #Charadriiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: alaska #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

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filmap · 2 years

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North to Alaska Henry Hathaway. 1960

Cabin Hot Creek, Hot Creek Hatchery Rd, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546, USA See in map

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#henry hathaway #north to alaska #john wayne #capucine #cabin #western #mill #hot creek #united states #california #river #mammoth lakes #movie #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #1960

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hag-o-hags · 1 year

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I bought 3 oz of qiviut which is musk ox yarn and we are not going to acknowledge how much it cost

but it

is

beautiful.

The brown is natural, and the gold is actually 20% silk but the lustre on it is INCREDIBLE. It's so pretty and soft.

Thanks, goils, you're absolute dolls.

#ki-vi-ute btw #musks ox are very cute and lovely #knitting #north to alaska

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fandomgeeknerd · 10 days

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FRUIT LORE X WTTT IS HERE

next i'mma do flower lore

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sea-salted-wolverine · 3 months

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In honor of the moose/Iditarod rule 34 chaos post reaching 1000 notes and then Dallas Seavy winning the Iditarod here are all the unhinged stories and things I know about that race

They changed the rules and schedules so you can't do this anymore, but there was a subset of mushers who would race the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod back to back. That's a 1000-mile race followed by another 1000-mile race through some of the harshest terrain on earth in late winter. And the Yukon quest doesn't even finish where the Iditarod starts. To do this required putting dogs in a plane OR having another team of dogs waiting in anchorage and someone to deal with both teams of dogs.

The first woman to win the Iditarod was Libby Riddles in 1985.

Only to have her finish promptly blown out of the water by Susan Butcher who won the race in 86', 87', 88', and 90' while setting speed records the whole way.

Susan did race in 85' but she ran into a moose early and it killed two of her dogs and hurt the rest so she scratched. Dallas got lucky this year.

She was also the first person to mush a dog team up to the summit of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. This is not what dog teams are intended to do, I don't know why she even wanted to, other than to prove it was possible. I don't think anyone has since.

The race now requires GPS trackers on all the racers and you would not believe the bitchfit everyone threw over those. Mushers can either hop between checkpoints or camp on the trail and it may surprise you to learn that these are the kind of people who have secret camp spots in the woods that they don't want anyone to know about. So now, everyone has acquiesced to the tracker requirement but you must have an account on the race website if you want to see them.

The race has 2 paths that alternate even and odd years with different checkpoints but every year includes a section of race that crosses the sea ice, approximately 50 miles from Shaktoolik to Koyuk. so forget landmarks. point the sled north and hope you're going the right way.

the race is in honor of the 1925 Serum Run and the diphtheria outbreak, but the trail itself is the old freight route which is almost twice the length. also, it's a freight route for hauling freight which means the the racers are going at more or less lightspeed as compared to the intended use.

the most effective way to avoid frostbite on your face is a fur hood and duct tape on your cheeks and nose. Cold-related injuries are rare but far from unheard of. The average number of toes and fingertips among mushers is lower than that of the general population.

The finish line is a massive burled arch in the middle of main street in Nome. There is not a lot going on in Nome at any given time and this time of year is the exception. Every racer who finishes the race gets the same reception, which is everyone in town crowding into the finish chute to cheer them on and the city fire siren going off. The last racer in gets the Red Lantern Award which means that they finished dead last but didn't scratch.

the 2020 race had started and was fully underway when the pandemic lockdowns came into place. as far as social distancing goes, you really can't do much better than being isolated 100 miles into the middle of frozen nowhere but the checkpoints are itty bitty villages with no medical infrastructure and the finish was reportedly terrifying because instead of a crowd to cheer at the burled arch, it was just the siren going off in a ghost town.

there is no way I can tell this story that doesn't sound like I'm making it up as I go. The sign says no sniveling and they fucking mean it.

no really, click that link. here's the YouTube vid (non-graphic, after-the-fact interviews)

#from the far north #wolverine warbles #iditarod #dog mushing #alaska

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