Helicopter Tour & Landing On Middle Of Massive ALASKA Glacier - Knik River Of Ice / Snowy Mountains
Alaska Glacier Helicopter Ride
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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November 4th 2024 I am wearing an
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appropriate hat an appropriate heavy
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jacket which I will be probably zipping
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and buttoning up this hat my dad used to
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use when he was Trucking years ago when
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he would get into cold weather he'd wear
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this hat my mom said did you take your
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Dad's hat cap so I'm sporting this my
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dad used to wear have bought this jacket
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I also have let me flip this
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around boots right down here they are
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water resistant boots with some good
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traction I also got these self-warming
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pants right here and also have this
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these pair of gloves which are pretty
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fancy because I'm able to use these with
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my
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phone which is kind of nice I uh I
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tested it out the tips on the top of the
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fingers they are use with you can use
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them with your your phone and you don't
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have to take the gloves off right now
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it's not too incredibly cold but I'm
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sure I'll put these on at some point I'm
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walking around Downtown Anchorage I'm
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going to find
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myself a piping hot C there be a lot of
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piping hot caffeinated beverages on my
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Alaska trip now the sun is only out for
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a limited amount of time sun rises about
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8:40 and sets around 5:00 p.m. not a lot
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of daylight light this time of the year
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in Alaska so I have to make the most of
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it I have booked a helicopter tour that
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is going to take me over a glacier
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possibly land on said
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Glacier it's about an hour drive from
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here I have to take the rental car up
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there hopefully the roads will not be
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too bad no matter what happens I'm
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inviting you to join me it's good to
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have you here I am feeling amazing
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excited and super happy to be here join
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me shall you it is precise nicely 8:02
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a.m. right now it's 32° it's pretty much
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DUS out at the moment but the sun will
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be rising at about a half hour so I put
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the gloves on it is a little chilly let
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me scroll over you see
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sunet
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is at
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4:47 p.m. so 8:30 to 4:47 p.m. to make
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the best of this oh yes like a
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beacon little coffee shop right here
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you got the trees over there with plenty
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of snow on
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them lot of
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snow SW shop coffee shop called wild
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Star
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Coffee let's get a little wild with some
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wild stars look at all this snow
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covering up the little seating area over
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there on top of this whatever this
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is just like piles of
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snow not in Florida anymore the tour is
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about an hour from here depending on how
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the road conditions are got a little
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time and a walk around Downtown
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Anchorage for just a little bit check
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some things out they get in the car make
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sure I get over to the helicopter tour
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location place in time you never know
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with road
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conditions oh I love piping hot
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caffeinated beverage even when it's warm
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out but it's even extra special when
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it's sow we and cold and crisp and
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beautiful look at the trash look at the
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it's PT it's a painted trash
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can this is be this is so Bears won't
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get in
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it is that a drinking fountain I don't
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know what the heck that
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is man I I'm having such a good day
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already sun's coming
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up little lights they on that
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tree feel like that guy in Happy Gilmore
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fresh cut grass birds chirping except
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the opposite there's no fresh cut grass
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or birds chirping but I feel that way
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about the snow right now that's how
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happy I am there's a nice little mural
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up there representing either the
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mountains or the Northern Lights I'm
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hoping some point during my twoe tenure
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here in Alaska I get to an area where
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there's not a lot of light pollution
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from the cityscape I can get out kind of
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in the middle of nowhere a little bit
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north of here hopefully and see the
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Northern Lights I got a couple weeks
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here so I think it'll probably hopefully
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it'll
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have just a little bit of
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snow yeah it's
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pretty pretty good pretty good uh depth
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there my foot's way down in there that's
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a
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that's the footprint right
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there this guy's riding his bike with
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the lights
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on
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morning that' be pretty fun right bike
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uh snow
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tires so I put the
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uh the coat hat on as well probably
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should ZIP this thing up at some point
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maybe go R in their bikes out here
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there's no snow tires on that one that's
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just a regular bike now I have heard not
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confirmed but I've heard oh got to be
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careful though because does get slick
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through here but I've heard that they
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put these on the top of the fire
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hydrants that way when the hydrant gets
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buried in the snow you'll know where the
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hydrant
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is and that does make sense now seeing
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how high the snow gets over
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here also across the
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way there's something on this corner we
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find out what that is oh you got to be
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kidding me okay I heard this was a thing
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but I didn't
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know if it was real or not but now I'm
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seeing over here in this snow
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covered what
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the
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hey it's a freaking
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reindeer that is a reindeer hard to see
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through the
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fence very tough to see through the
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fence kind of nestled over
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there rubing its backside on those
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whatever those are like Chimes or
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something that is so dang
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there
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wow I got to figure I got to find out
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the backstory on this reindeer why is it
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here on the street Corner star the
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reindeer hello star the Reindeer
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reindeer are members of the deer
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family sir viid sir VI adult stand 3 and
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1/2 ft shoulder 250 to 300 lb their code
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is dense warm and weatherproof
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waterproof reindeer offer differ from
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other deer that both males and females
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have alers they're very broad hooves are
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designed for walking in the snow this is
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star
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good to see you over there
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star see if I can get in and get you get
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a little better view there there you are
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here you are
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star how you
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doing that's your spot
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huh star of the reindeer I did not think
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I was going to see a reindeer today but
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here we
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are clearing the sidewalks over there
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there I am just so fascinated by all
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this I'm fascinated by everything though
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really I'm really easily
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amused picking a little break I thought
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May were going to get a little view of
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them scraping the side oh there we go
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look at that look what the heck is
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happening what the heck is that it's
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emit okay that's how it starts off and
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shoot it grinds it up spits it out in
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water form grinds up the snow and then
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it spits it out look at that what the
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heck
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cool do not see these in Florida oh my
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gosh there is a freaking leaf blower
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over
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there what
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the can't get away from
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him follow me
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everywhere so he's backing
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up wait it's backing up it's coming back
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my way should I be walking down here
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it's backing
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up oh no it's going forward
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okay it cleared a
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path love
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again why the heck am I here I don't
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know but I am look at these cute little
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houses here with the snow on the roof
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like how picturesque is this how
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picturesque is
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this right there we go all bundled up up
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there right here at this corner at the
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buses ready to pick up some people take
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them around town little public transit
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out here the name of the public transit
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here is called the People
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Mover pretty
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cool just can't stay away from people
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movers look at my
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breath I'm almost finished how wonder
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how many coffees I'm going to have over
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the next two weeks well probably a lot
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lot of piping hot caffeinated beverages
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AKA coffee never let it be said that
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that I do not know how to make a abrupt
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transition from Halloween season
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into Christmas Time season I mean it's
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still a ways off to a Christmas time but
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yeah they've already got it kind of has
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those vibes through
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here direct cut right
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into Christmas CH you know a couple
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months of
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Halloween now couple months of Christmas
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time it's like I think half the year
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is made up of other holiday half the
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year well almost half the year you're
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celebrating Halloween Thanksgiving
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Christmas and then some other holidays
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peppered in there as well also I put the
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gloves off and on I'm hoping if the sun
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comes out doesn't look like it's going
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to maybe I can go without the GL I'd
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rather not wear the gloves but sometimes
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it gets a little too chilly so put the
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been taking the gloves off and on and
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putting this on Up Up and Down can't
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make up my mind but I love this I love
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this weather I love the cold been
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driving for a bit it was only about a
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60m drive over to where the helicopter
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tours are going to be still got a little
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ways to
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go the sign over there so this sign says
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Avalanche area next one and a half miles
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do not stop that refers to that way that
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sign is letting you know that the
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Avalanche area ends so everything past
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here you're good there's a little pull
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off right here it's my rental car right
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there a lake a frozen lake
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there about 10 more miles to where I got
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to be going very very slow pace but
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driving probably about 25 30 m an hour
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I'm always concerned with ice I feel the
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car sliding a little bit it's only about
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31° there's not too much ice but every
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once in a while I'll hit like a little
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pocket I can feel the wheels kind
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of not connecting but nothing too
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drastic
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but beautiful out
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here I hear some
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animals look at these freaking mountains
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just
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gorgeous frozen
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tundra oh is that an eagle going
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by this is very
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interesting this whole bridge over here
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doesn't look like it's in use anymore
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this old railroad bridge I thought maybe
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it was still active
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however look at
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this this just freaking
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awesome
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wow look at
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this that's freaking awesome just just
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gorgeous snow
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feet are deep in it
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there these boots
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on man this is so
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just what a what a really cool place and
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I'm sure if you were in this all the
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time it would kind of wear on you and
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become irritating to some degree but I'm
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not used to this this is not something
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this is complete polar opposite of what
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I was oh I almost just found that little
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crevice right there my foot went farther
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down there's like a hole right there
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this is complete up hole
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opposite than what I was
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experiencing just a few days ago when I
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was in
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Florida complete 180 continue driving
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down this road there's a little general
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store right
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here also about 10 minutes till 11:00
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a.m. and the Sun is finally out peeking
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clouds so that's kind of nice might burn
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off a little a little bit of the ice
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that's on the
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road 32° right
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now right on the cusp of freezing but
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the sun is out which is good again I
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haven't really seen much ice on the road
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but little pockets if it gets above 32
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should make it a little easier going
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going back to
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Anchorage after the helicopter
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flight all right according to the
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directions
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copter is supposed to come out of or be
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located at the Alaska glacier Lodge all
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right now I'm looking down and I do see
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two helicopters down
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there I guess this is the spot this is
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out
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here is so quiet out here hear a pin
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drop while I'm waiting here I'll read a
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couple viewer comments from yesterday's
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video R stewartson
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4164 so spent three years in Anchorage
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back in
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1959 to
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62 and Wes Maui Brad just one word Adam
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are you listening boots now I know I was
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wearing tennis shoes yesterday I still
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have those back at the hotel but I also
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right guys come on out this is slightly
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terrifying to be just on this chunk of
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snow and ice like how I don't know scary
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be
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honest said do not walk too far probably
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at least 500t of
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ice here there's at least 500 ft of ice
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underneath our Fe right here guys is
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there's a difference between what we're
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standing on here which is Glacier Ice
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and right there that's a frozen lake
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okay we cannot walk on that we don't
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know how thick that ice is if you break
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through it you're going to get really
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wet and cold okay probably not disappear
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on it now over here where we can see
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this little bit of ice exposed there's
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actually a hole right there we don't
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know how deep that hole is okay and if
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we go in that hole all sheo so what we
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want to stick to is kind of the Hills
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this type of textured stuff that we're
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looking at now we can walk around a
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little bit what we'll do is we'll head
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up to the top of this hill to start and
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then I'll just kind of watch and you
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guys are free to explore and I'll just
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yell at you if you're going the wrong
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way sure awesome guys also just wanted
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to Che on way I don't know how much I
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want to explore
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well we can talk about it I think
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usually when I
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terrify oh my gosh what the heck
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man what the heck is that
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ice if you guys want pictures or
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anything guys
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same for you if you want any pictures or
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anything right thank
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you there we go that all right one two
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three
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the here we
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I this is maybe one of the most amazing
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things I've ever done hello hey guys we
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are on the
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GL it's just absolutely incredible
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what the heck
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reality sun right over my head
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there is that just the water right there
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yeah not the water under the GLA right
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it's just a pool of water on the surface
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okay it's like a little pond on top
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where would you normally land during the
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summertime here right here this is like
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this okay yeah the main difference
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obviously is the water is liquid and
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with there being no snow on the ice
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you're standing directly on the ice
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which usually looks white or blue uh
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depending on a number of factors
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so we can come from here yeah yeah you
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can come right this way it's all good
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it's just absolutely
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incredible oh that's all ice everything
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is ice literally everything underneath
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our feet is ice for hundreds and
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hundreds of feet wow okay yeah that's
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what the glacier is right that gives me
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a little more confidence that you parked
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that right there though yeah yeah yeah
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and the glacier's um you know it's not
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floating it's sitting on bed rock okay
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and so this is rock solid ice all the
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way down to rock about like 500 to th000
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ft below us
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cold oh my gosh it's
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freezing does it look like one not
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really H kind of kind of kind of looks
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like it oh my
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gosh thank you yeah man woo that's cold
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somewhere
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he could hear it but I don't see him
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w
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W oh
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wow a that's no
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blasting oh
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man every movie with the
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helicopter is into my brain and mash
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love the smelling aom in the
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morning that was
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awesome that was so freaking
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cool
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absolutely absolutely
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cool W be too much longer before the sun
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sets I've made it back to Anchorage oh
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there's another little uh little thing
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sticking out of the snow here I'm not
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sure what that leads to but there's a
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little item there there I am now at a
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place called
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Moose's
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tooth which I believe is a pizza place
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Pub and Pizzeria all right ended up
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ordering some takeout I'm take it back
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to my hotel take say it's going to take
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about a half hour I did end up getting
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Avalanche just cuz I figured I was in an
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area where it said keep your car moving
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don't park here cuz there could be an
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avalanche and we think of Alaska you
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think of snow think of
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avalanches an avalanche here is
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pepperoni black and chicken bacon red
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onions parsley cheddar mozzarella
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provolone and barbecue sauce hopefully
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they're not too thick on the barbecue
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sauce yeah they approximated the wait
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time would be about a half hour to wait
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for my pizza pie here at Moose's
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tooth and they were correct in the half
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hour
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assumption cuz that's how long it did
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take still getting used to like walking
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on ice and snow but yeah half hour right
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here got the handcrafted Pizza well
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handcrafted ale I didn't get an ale but
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I got pizza and I got some napkins and
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some red pepper and stuff like that and
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this is what we're dealing with that is
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the Avalanche
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give it a try go in on a slice of
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avalanche
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definitely could taste the barbecue
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sauce but it's not too
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overbearing it's pretty
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pizza all right a little bit of
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everything on this bad boy it's like an
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avalanche sliding down into your taste
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buds and into your
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right that's going to do it for today
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this is good pizza my
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goodness thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog good
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first full
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day in Alaska more to come I can't
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believe how far out we went so that
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Glacier the pilot was saying it's 25
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miles
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it thanks for watching I'll see you the
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next video the Vlog is
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over this Moose's tooth knows how to
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bake a pizza pie