Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:10:36 -0800
Reply-To: Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Pt. Barrow Winter Solstice
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Or.. nothing left to lose.
tim in san jose
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Tough place to live as a permanent resident. I gotta hand it to the
> Alaska Native people who have figured out how to make a living there for
> thousands of years. Smart people.
>
> John
>
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
> On 11/19/2011 6:14 PM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>
>> Well, if you wanted to camp around Barrow in your Vanagon, you'd have to
>> have it shipped up by air, preferably in summer when it is more practical
>> for the aircraft. No roads, except one poor one out to the Point, and a
>> road to a gas well that supplies the village. I visited Barrow, but it was
>> at the summer solstice, and of course, my wife had to go out and photograph
>> a clock at midnight with the sun in the shot. Went out to Point Barrow in
>> a van (no, not a VW) equipped with tracks -- the beach is deep gravel. My
>> understanding at the time was that one could only go to the Point with
>> permission of the Native Corporation. Camping there in winter would be
>> pretty tough. Fifty below might be a little hard to take, not to mention
>> the sea ice that pushes up giant ridges on the beach with the tidal action.
>> Then there is the wind ........ .
>>
>> I do have some respect for the folks who overwinter in such places, but
>> I'm not doing it in a Vanagon.
>>
>> mcneely
>>
>> ---- John Rodgers<inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>>
>>> I should have mentioned this in the earlier post.
>>>
>>> Check your calendar - November, right?
>>>
>>> In Pt. Barrow, Alaska each year it is heard this day on the radio "The
>>> sun set today.November 19, and the sun will rises again around January
>>> 22 or January 23.
>>>
>>> This creates a polar night that lasts 65 days until the sun rises
>>> again near the end of January.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't that be a trip, camping in winter?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Rodgers
>>> Clayartist and Moldmaker
>>> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
>>> Chelsea, AL
>>> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>>>
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>
>>
>>
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