Exploring The Extreme Nothernmost Town In America - Barrow ALASKA Is Secluded / Life At Top Of World
Barrow Alaska Nov 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is
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Wednesday November 13th 20124 I'm in
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Barrow
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Alaska it's 9:00 a.m. right now it is
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900 a.m. the sun is not up it will not
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rise for about 3 more
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hours about 2 and 1/2 hours the sun will
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be up
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today so very little sunlight in fact
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it's cloudy also I have a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage I'm going to do my
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intro right over here near the Arctic
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Ocean at this whalebone
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Archway which I was looking online this
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building is on the national register of
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historic
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places and it was used where the Whalers
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would show up
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it was a
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whaler like a not an office but where
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they would would meet it was like the
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headquarters of the of the Whalers back
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in the day and that old aband building
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is on the national register of historic
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places so I am going to go rent a car
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and I say car because it's really
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technically let me spin this
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around pull down the little facial thing
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there
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piping hot caffeinated
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beverage at the northernmost point of
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the United States and one of the most
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northernmost points in the world top of
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the
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world
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cheers the rental car place all they had
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is an 11 passenger van so I'm going to
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order a taxi go over to the rental car
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place and I'm going to
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explore this very unique town I'm
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inviting you yes you to join
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cold this this this is a cool
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feeling and I'm glad you're tagging
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along join
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me shall you all right they in fact
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didn't need me to go into the 11
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passenger van they had this F350
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Superduty this is what I'm going to have
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to drive around in four-wheel
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drive there's only one paved Road in all
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the town with the exception of the
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tarmac at the airport in the runway and
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it's that one right here all the other
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ones are not paved only one paved road
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all the other ones because of
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permafrost are not paved so the entire
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town is on unpaved roads I got the heat
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on in here she also gave me a layout of
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the land said do not take it
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Offroad again I was saying the roads are
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not paved so those are considered roads
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but don't take it off of the designated
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streets which are shown
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here I believe this is the only rental
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facility in town she also said there's
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only one gas station and to try to fill
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it up before bringing it back just going
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to drive around a little bit I'll stop
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and film some of the things in town I
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also get out quite a few times figure
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just make more sense to have a rental
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can kind of film a little bit out the
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windows and then feeling daring while
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it's still dark again only a couple
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hours of
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daylight can jump out and explore a
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little bit there's an Ace Hardware
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here doesn't look like it's open
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though there's a lot of these dumpsters
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I noticed these dumpsters are
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everywhere they usually have something
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written on all the sides of them like
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all of them kind of have little sayings
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written on the side this car right here
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does not appear to be in good working
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condition like the doors of all been
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removed off of it just sitting there in
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snow here's the borrow transit
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station we find a place to park over
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here and show a
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little little thing I want to get out
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and
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see I'm going to try to keep it running
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as much as I
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can I don't know how deep this is H not
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that deep here we go
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so this is the little marker designat
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about 10 miles from
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here is where Aviator Wy
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post was flying a
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plane
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landed and then upon takeoff in this
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area go around the other
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side so there's Wy right
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there born in Texas grew up in farms in
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Oklahoma
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also known from Oklahoma Will
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Rogers both of
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them searching for the top of the world
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they lost their lives on August 15th of
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1935 when Wy post unnamed experiment
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experimental plane crash 16 Mi okay 16
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Mi short of their destination from this
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spot in Barrow Alaska
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their bodies were flown black
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home for burial
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from this
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section this
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airport Will
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Rogers now evidently I was doing a
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little looking online and the exact spot
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where the plane crashed is unattainable
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by
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Road there's only a couple photos I saw
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and they were taken by a little little
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like a sea plane type
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thing and I don't even know if those
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little markers are even still out there
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but this is this is a very impressive
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and nice
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one Will Rogers and Wy post here's a
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little marker as
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well Barrow or Barrow I'm I'm not really
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sure which way it's pronounced but
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Barrow or Barrow it also has another
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name that recently has changed named
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into something else but I'm noticing you
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don't really see that name designated
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too much here you still see all the
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signage for borrow or
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Barrow now the North Pole is
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1,311 MI from here not North Pole Alaska
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where I was the other day where I met
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Santa Claus and all that which was kind
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of a neat town named the North Pole but
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the actual North Pole the real North
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Pole the farthest possible
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point of a pole could go is 1,311 MI
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shown right there then you got the South
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Pole over there Fairbanks Alaska which I
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was at recently is 551 mil Lake plid
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Florida look at this Lake Placid Florida
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4,774 I've been to Lake plid it's not
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too far from where I'm at Central
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Florida Chicago is 3,000 miles La is
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just shy of 3,000 at 200
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2,945 miles there's a Snow
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Eagle right up top there
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Austin
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Texas
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3,572
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miles and Will Rogers
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birthplace is 3,246 MI from here so he
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passed away 3,246 mi from where he was
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born all right got to get back in got to
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get back in the truck it's cold out here
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this town is in a design ated area
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called the North Slope
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burrow this seems to be where quite a
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few people
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work there definitely a lot of cars over
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there and that's not a hotel well it
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doesn't appear to be definitely the most
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congregational cars I've seen so far in
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one little area here there's a
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Presbyterian Church here in
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town nice stained glass windows over
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there very nice
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department as I was saying most of the
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dumpsters have things written on them
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this one has Jesus written on the
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side not really like tagging or graffiti
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they just have sometimes words of
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encouragement or different names this
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one has Jesus on the side got the Arctic
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sea right over there which I'm going to
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try to get a little bit better view you
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always see a lot of whalebones so
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there's like whalebones every everywhere
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you can see another little whalebone
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Archway right there so this is pretty
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fascinating this is the ancient Village
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of UK pag
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Vic UK PVC the place where we hunt the
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snowy owl this is what this says so I'm
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hoping this isn't too deep I would like
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to walk over here and get a little bit
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better view of this kind of read up on
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this so these are different Mounds now
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because there's so much snow you won't
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be able to see the Mounds as much but
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you can see little humps in the ground
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there where the Mounds are even though
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the snow cover is engulfing them you
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also see a snow plow over there dumping
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snow see those all over you see a lot of
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snow plows you see a lot of snow mobiles
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in fact I'm seeing probably just as many
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snowmobiles as I see cars I think that's
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the mode of transportation for a lot of
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people but here is their home STS here
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Home Building 2,000 years ago the Mounds
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before you are 2,000-year old remains of
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their ancestors semi-underground sod
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homes they keep heat from the whale oil
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lamps in the bitter Arctic
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winds that's what the name means the
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place where they hunt the snowy owls
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right here along the Arctic Ocean the
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frozen Arctic
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Ocean there's a Jeep here's the back of
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the bed of the truck that's all snow
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right down in
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there there's the
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ocean right over over
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there I don't want to venture off too
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far because this is definitely polar
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bear
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area
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and hoping I can get that thing is not
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moving that water is not is just so
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Eerie it's 10:00 in the morning it's
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actually a few minutes past 10:00
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a.m. you can kind of see a little bit of
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haze of the sun Maybe starting to come
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up and then maybe the next hour pre-
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daylight will be
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happening it's such an eerie feeling to
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at 10:00
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a.m. for it to be this dark got the
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lights on keeping the truck running most
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of the time if
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possible it's just such an eerie feeling
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that I'm not personally not used to at
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this time frame seeing an ocean that's
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not moving
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hoping I can get a little closer closer
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view it's like a little Beach Shack
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here some
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sort yeah the snow's getting kind of a
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little deeper
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here all right go back to the
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truck carry on sometimes it's difficult
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to know where to drive also cuz you
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don't know where Road
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is and where Road isn't because it's
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just all covered in
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snow all right
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this is something
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else about a mile on the outskirts of
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town very snowy roads very very snowy
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roads slow
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going I've arrived
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now at the Ima
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IO
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sign apologies if I'm really Mis
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mispronouncing that Cemetery
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here in the
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wow it is so quiet the only sound is the
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truck running
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it is
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otherworldly up
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this I'm at a loss for words right
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now where am I this is just incredible
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incredible
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quite a few laid to rest here they got
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the crosses up lot of whalebones I see
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whale bones out there
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manad
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oh that's
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deep maybe not I was going to see if I
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could read a
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name I'm not seeing any etchings on any
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of them but it's tough to tell
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it is so
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cold that my eyes I can't like there's
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like my eyes are like welding up by
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watering
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up now the moment is definitely very
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intense but I'm not shedding a tear I
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mean it's definitely very emotional
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being out here but it's the coldness
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like my
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eyes they don't know how to react so
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they're like there was like formulating
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like a shell of water around there
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doesn't make any I can't I'm not making
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any sense but yeah
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wow back up what is that
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I feel like I'm in a dream right now I
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feel like I'm in a literal
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dream okay I got to turn around and get
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back into town There's the Alaska a
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court system
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building it's a very unique looking
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structure right snow removal in process
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or in progress I should
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say all right this is the grocery
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store let's go check it
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out without a
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doubt there's not even a close second
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place I've ever been grocery store- wise
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pricewise
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that compares to the
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prices here in B Alaska I mean this
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is five times what it would normally
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would cost at a normal grocery store
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maybe even more inflated than that not
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every aisle is completely full they
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don't have a huge inventory but the
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inventory they have is very very pricey
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and most of the reason is because
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getting the stuff over here is the major
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issue so now I have steep back outside
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somebody up here is having an issue with
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their
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coughing it looks like the sun is going
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to be starting to rise pretty soon so
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the interesting thing they have a coffee
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in there this coffee was $3 but if I was
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to buy coffee and make it myself at home
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you'd be paying way more than that per
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cup based on the prices that were inside
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the inside the store
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all right continue
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on yeah that was
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wild that
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was I don't think I've ever seen grocery
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prices like that
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before there's a dog over there
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man it's brisk oh there's another whale
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bone oh this is the museum I want to go
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in
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there I want to go over there next so
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you got
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the grocery store here which has a
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whale and then you
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have the Heritage Center over there
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which is basically their Museum I go
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check that
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out ner North Slope burrow
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like there's a little bit of a boat so
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like more like a little history lesson
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inside here learn about the area after
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walking in they told me that they were
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not open the only thing open is the gift
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shop top of the world Barrow
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Alaska evidently they're having a
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maintenance issue so Museum's not open
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the only I can check out is this and a
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little bit of a Lobby so no go on
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that oh look at these are like huge bump
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oh my gosh these are like the biggest
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bumper stickers I've ever seen these are
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like so this is my hand look at this
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this is
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huge look at the size of this bumper
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sticker that is huge I'm going to get
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that
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$5 that is like I've never seen a bumper
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sticker that big
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before that's something is this a
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magnet all right up
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there okay thank you
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yep all right no go
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I'm checking out and learning a little
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bit of history but got a big bumper
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sticker all right keep driving around
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see what I can find be nice if I could
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take that thing around well that would
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be be really cold right all that
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though as I drive along here you can see
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that this is an unpaved Road it's made
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of like a hard pack either mud or clay
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I'm not sure exactly what it is but it's
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definitely not concrete or
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cement and over to the side that's a BM
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and right over the side of the BM is the
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ocean the Atlantic
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Ocean but I do like the fact that the
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roads are not
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paved just less black ice on the roads
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because doesn't stick as much as it
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would on
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pavement I'm no expert but that's just
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what I'm
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figuring the ocean is right there right
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this that is a m piece of Machinery
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right
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there just spouting the snow right back
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out onto the burm
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cool
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Wendy you got a big surprise coming to
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you go check out the snow
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cat go check out the snow
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cat go check it
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out go check it
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out I'd be losing my mind out here I
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don't know why that light is on that
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snow cat but I have to quote The
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Shining the northern most football field
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in the United States is right here and I
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cannot imagine how often it could be
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used when there's not snow on it but it
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is used it's right here on the Arctic
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Ocean the Arctic Ocean you can basically
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throw a rock and hit the frozen ocean
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there's a lake on that side of the
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football
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field got my truck park there you got
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the stands there the announcers box all
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that and you got a football field right
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incredible leaving the truck running I
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turned it off when I went the grocery
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store but all the other spots when I
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pull off the side of the road away from
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town I'm leaving it
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okay look around the corner
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just I mean I want to see a polar bear
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but I don't want to see it in this
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condition look at this snow drift is the
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side of the fence right there
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probably shouldn't get too
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far I probably shouldn't get too far
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honestly from the
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car the bear thing kind of frightens me
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a little bit the idea that there's could
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be polar bears in this vicinity kind of
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scares me all right I'm reaching a point
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where says the road is closed so I'm not
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going to go past this point now if you
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kept going you would hit Point Barrow
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You' have to get out and Hike about 2
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miles not going to be hiking up to the
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farthest possible point of Point Barrow
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because from what I was reading this
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time of the year that is where the polar
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bears
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are they do not want to encounter one of
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those in the wild now there are some
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trucks parked up here but I'm going to
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abide by that road
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sign and just
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stay just stay right here now it does
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appear as if the water is
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moving well it's really an eerie feeling
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as I said
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because it looks like a painting there's
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no water
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crashing and I guess the water is moving
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there is some
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man this is like just so bizarre to
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see cuz it doesn't appear as if the
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water is Flowing but I guess it
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is it's not frozen
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over it is
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moving originally last night when I
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landed and I was looking at it at night
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it appeared if the it appeared if the
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whole thing was frozen
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solid but look how it's just moving at
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such a slow pace that it doesn't appear
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to be
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all right back in the truck continue on
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turn around do a U-turn go back in town
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drove up a little bit more take a
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look definitely some sort of a bone of
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like a whalebone perhaps
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I mean that's so what I'm guessing it is
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based on some of the little arches made
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of whalebones that' be like a full full
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whale and there's another one buried
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right there
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these old pieces of Machinery it's an
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old truck over there like a
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18wheeler type of
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truck you can't see it because it's
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completely frozen over but there's a
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lagoon right there on this other side in
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fact this bridge is
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Bridge right
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there top of the wh Bridge says
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it with the Lagoon on the other side
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Bridge completely frozen over
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thing I don't even think this thing's
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used anymore
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something hey that's
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deep that's deeper than I wanted it to
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be oh crap
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there okay it looks like there's a sea
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lion or something it's tough to see it
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but there's some
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etchings on that sign right there
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it's like a sea lion
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okay back in the
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heat there another
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directional London
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4,114 mil
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this is another Presbyterian Church oh
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this is the Presbyterian Church the one
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of the original buildings in town I was
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reading about that online followed by
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the new Presbyterian Church has been
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built right here I'm going to grab a
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bike to eat so North Slope
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burrow little restaurant right
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here it's called Sam and
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Le grab a bite to eat see what they got
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oh I hear a helicopter going
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by the Chinese food
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restaurant all right they have pretty
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good decent menu
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here Burger sandwiches beef
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chain
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chicken fried rice
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soups wow wow look at the
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price one on soup is
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$26 holy cow lunch specials $25 each all
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right I got water and I got three egg
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rolls three egg rolls are $18 and the
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chow main was like what
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$30 things are expensive here all part
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of the
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experience this showed up they said
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here's some soup for you so a little
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chicken chicken noodle
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here Soup for the Soul warms up the
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warms up the
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blood I mean I can definitely understand
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why considering the prices that were at
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the gas station not gas station grocery
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store
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everything here has to be shipped in
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everything would be a little more
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expensive because of this I think like
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90% of the of the Year nothing can get
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here other than by
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plane I think boats sometimes too when
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the weather's a little bit warmer I
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think even when the weather's really
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warm which is rare you could there are
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some some roads but
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for the most part you can't get here
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unless it's by plane pretty good I've
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actually never seen a place cut open an
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egg roll before usually usually they
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won't slice them down the middle maybe
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that's just to let the heat out so you
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don't like scald your
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mouth yeah pretty good pretty standard
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egg
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roll slice down the middle all right
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here it is Chicken
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chamain Little rice a little extra water
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I also asked the girl working here if
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she knew a good spot to park out so I
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can walk right up to the water where it
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was really close she told me about a
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place that's next to a first so I'm to
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go over there after I get done with this
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and dip my hand in the
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ocean hopefully from where I was I just
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didn't really feel comfortable walking
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across that much snow and then walking
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down the BM if that makes
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sense a pretty good portion I mean it is
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it is a lot of money but definitely a
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decent portion
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all right $46
36:30
later it was good though I am really
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really full here's one of the taxis
36:34
through here so I'm going to get in my
36:36
rental car or a rental truck and find
36:39
the fur shop after eating at Sam and
36:43
Le's go to the fur shop and then walk
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down and touch the water at the beach
36:49
also rare moment where the sun is kind
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of sort of
36:57
up that's the only glimmer of the sun
36:57
I've seen today and probably will be the
36:59
last it looks like it
37:01
might be about ready to set underneath
37:03
that building
37:05
there so there's the Sun and evidently
37:08
in a couple weeks like two or 3 weeks
37:10
from
37:11
now don't quote me on this it was just
37:13
something I was reading but here within
37:15
the next month it'll start being dark 24
37:19
hours a day for a couple
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months so right now I'm grateful to even
37:24
have any son when I'm here visiting
37:29
cuz soon there will be no
37:31
sun here in this
37:33
town that wild to think about 24 hours
37:36
of Darkness for weeks on
37:44
end like I said it's a different world
37:45
different world up here all right got
37:46
this boat turned over right here here is
37:49
the fur
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shop right
37:54
there let's see if I can walk down here
38:38
so this is interesting look at these
38:38
like those sandbags again lots of
38:49
them quietest Beach I've ever ever been
38:49
at and not because of the people that's
38:54
obvious but just because there's no
38:55
waves crashing
39:10
none and no I will not be doing a Polar
39:10
Plunge that is not going to be
39:16
happening doing well enough to even be
39:17
bundled
39:18
up without getting in the
39:22
water okay there's some rocks there
39:40
hey that's slick oh my gosh that's slick
39:40
that's a
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rock
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okay that's
39:46
slick that's actually
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slick
40:05
here it is it's very very
40:05
slick very
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slick that's pure
40:13
ice right
40:22
amazing there's a bird right there in
40:25
the water floating around
40:58
this holy Lord that's cold
40:58
woo oh my gosh that's
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coldo put that glove back on get that
41:07
glove back on holy oh
41:11
cold instantaneous numbness get these
41:15
gloves back on oh my gosh instantaneous
41:19
numbness the finger I don't even know
41:22
what the temperature of that water is
41:24
but it's definitely not lukewarm
41:28
not bath water temperature that's for
41:35
sure but I did it definitely very Gusty
41:35
out
41:37
here not in well not incredibly Gusty
41:40
just a little Gusty but with the
41:43
temperature even the slightest Breeze
41:46
makes that windshell next
41:49
level this is called the bufor
41:53
building says it right there on the side
42:00
I think I'm going to start heading back
42:00
to the
42:02
hotel maybe took a look at the whale
42:04
Archway again
42:06
and get inside before this sun comes
42:09
down cuz it's going to start getting
42:10
even colder once that sun dissipates
42:12
again one thing about the food options
42:14
the grocery store
42:16
and all that there's no fast food
42:19
anywhere anywhere in town there was a
42:21
Subway but it closed I can't even
42:24
imagine what the price of the Subway
42:25
sandwiches were having to get all that
42:27
stuff shipped over by
42:30
plane definitely did not have $5 Foot
42:33
Longs at that Subway probably why it
42:36
went out of business maybe they did
42:37
that's why it went out of business cuz
42:38
everything else here you I don't think
42:40
you get any food option even a can of
42:42
soup in this town for $5 all right the
42:44
mayor is josian
42:47
a
42:49
potak right here's the North Slope
42:52
burough
42:53
building the mayor's name's on the side
42:55
of the building now earlier I was
42:56
mentioning how there's a couple
42:57
buildings on the national register the
43:00
original Presbyterian Church there but
43:03
also the pastor's home also known as a
43:07
parsonage which is located right over
43:09
there you see the shed
43:12
there and
43:15
then the main portion of the parsonage
43:18
house is also on the national register
43:20
from what I was
43:23
reading there's a couple buildings here
43:25
in town that are on the National
43:26
Registry
43:27
which is pretty
43:29
neat normally I would roll that window
43:31
down to get a better angle without a
43:33
glare or anything but there's no
43:35
electric windows in this it's an older
43:37
vehicle so you have to do the roll down
43:39
and I'm not sure if I really want to
43:40
roll the window down right now cuz it's
43:43
cold so it's kind of a TW for reason you
43:46
can see pretty good through the
43:47
windshield or through the window ooh
43:51
boats look at that it's another empty
43:54
boat just sitting right there keep
43:56
hearing the weirdest noise and then I
43:57
realize it's just the tires going on the
44:00
ice and snow so here's a little seaw
44:03
wall embankment there like a metal
44:06
embankment here to hold
44:08
the Hold the seaw Wall
44:36
yeah these just random boats which do
44:36
not look to have been utilized in many
44:40
years just sitting here amongst the snow
44:48
ice back over here now we can see it a
44:48
little bit better some slight slight
44:51
daylight out a little bit this left
44:54
before Sun dips back Over the Horizon a
44:58
little more specific about information
45:00
about this I was looking up again it was
45:02
The Point Barrow Refuge
45:05
Station was built in
45:08
1889 the oldest woodframe building in
45:11
the entire
45:20
town uses a support station for whaling
45:20
shifts ships I should say then it became
45:24
a cafe years after that it was a cafe
45:26
for a long time now usually when a
45:29
building is on the national register
45:31
there'll be a placard or a
45:34
sign but I'm not seeing one on this one
45:36
there are some antlers up
45:38
there right
45:41
there big metal door right there in the
45:43
front big metal door rusted out from the
45:54
elements oldest building in town right
45:54
here
46:05
this has definitely been something I
46:05
will
46:16
remember look at that there's there's
46:16
another piece of
46:25
Bones oh wow not just whatever the is it
46:25
the head or the Torso
46:27
but also like some femur type of Bones
46:30
down
46:38
here wedged in
46:38
there I can't tell what those are but
46:40
those almost look like train cars that
46:42
are down
47:01
all right that's going to do it for
47:08
today the top of the
47:08
world highest
47:11
point the most
47:13
North the most northern town in the
47:17
United States of America
47:31
in the Arctic sea that I dip my hand in
47:31
starting to get some feeling back into
47:32
my fingers
47:34
now thanks for watching I'll see you in
47:36
the next video the
47:38
Vlog why didn't I have this zipped up
47:40
even more also I'm a long way I'm a long
47:47
way from
47:50
Epcot nowhere
47:57
near the Vlog
47:57
it's over