Alaska Cruiser Trek 2010
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So.... all y'all ready to go, or what??
My 12H-T isn't on the shop floor any more. So that's good, I guess. (Actually it should all be complete by the next week, hopefully.)
Ratpuke
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Are you?
Hells no. Not stressed out or under the gun enough yet to be doing anything about getting O up and running.
Had a small melt down the other day when I realized how little time I had left and how much work I had to do, but I am back to eating the elephant one bit at a time, so I should be done in time.
new paint?
Don't feel bad Roger, my amigo Luis decided to re-paint his truck at the eleventh hour!!!
Don't feel bad Roger, my amigo Luis decided to re-paint his truck at the eleventh hour!!!
Body work and paint are on my work list for after the Trek. Though if I had a crew like Luis appears to have I might get it done sooner.
The 100 is ready. Just put in the 2m/70cm short wave in. Just need to sort out the tire situation.
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Ratpuke
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I hereby demand that there be a mandatory lug nut check at the trail head!
I was just going through my Alaska photos from last summer and just shook my head thinking about how much fun it was to play hide and go seek with a 40" bogger.
Anyway, here are some more pics to help motivate your wrenching activities:
I was just going through my Alaska photos from last summer and just shook my head thinking about how much fun it was to play hide and go seek with a 40" bogger.
Anyway, here are some more pics to help motivate your wrenching activities:
That's exactly what I need, a SAS hundo. Beautiful rig!
Did the studs break or did the nuts just come off? I hope we see some wildlife while we are out there.
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Just to keep the record straight.... it was not my rig that lost the bogger. As you can see from the shot on the ridge I still had all four of mine!
What I needed to check was just how much air flow I had through a mud encrusted radiator. (here is a hint... NOT enough)
Kevin shearer his wheel studs off. But loose lug nuts is what leads to that anyway. The tire/wheel was about a quarter mile way down a ravine in heavy brush when we found it.
The odd stance of my rig in that winching picture is due to the force of the pull lifting the rear and unloading all the weight from the back end. Consider the minimal leverage created by the slightly above frame line mounting of the winch and you will get an idea of how much force was in play. And also how much traction boggers can get in sod and how much holding power linelocks can give you.
Even that much pull did not get Kevin's rig free, He had dropped through the sod layer in a peat bog and as I pulled him back, the rig just tried to plow the sod. We had to use shovel and ax to cut the rootmat to get him back up on top.
Wildlife out in the more open areas of Alaska is actually pretty sparse. It takes a lot of land area to support an animal. Encountering one of the (constantly) migrating caribou herds is a rare thing unless you are able to specifically seek them out (by air usually). Where we hope to be this year is not part of the normal caribou range this time of year. usually encounter lone 'bo there.... likely to see a moose or two, maybe a bear or some sheep. but it will not feel like something out of a safari film the way it did when we spent two days surrounded by the caribou herd last year.
Mark...
What I needed to check was just how much air flow I had through a mud encrusted radiator. (here is a hint... NOT enough)
Kevin shearer his wheel studs off. But loose lug nuts is what leads to that anyway.
The tire/wheel was about a quarter mile way down a ravine in heavy brush when we found it.The odd stance of my rig in that winching picture is due to the force of the pull lifting the rear and unloading all the weight from the back end. Consider the minimal leverage created by the slightly above frame line mounting of the winch and you will get an idea of how much force was in play. And also how much traction boggers can get in sod and how much holding power linelocks can give you.
Even that much pull did not get Kevin's rig free, He had dropped through the sod layer in a peat bog and as I pulled him back, the rig just tried to plow the sod. We had to use shovel and ax to cut the rootmat to get him back up on top.
Wildlife out in the more open areas of Alaska is actually pretty sparse. It takes a lot of land area to support an animal. Encountering one of the (constantly) migrating caribou herds is a rare thing unless you are able to specifically seek them out (by air usually). Where we hope to be this year is not part of the normal caribou range this time of year. usually encounter lone 'bo there.... likely to see a moose or two, maybe a bear or some sheep. but it will not feel like something out of a safari film the way it did when we spent two days surrounded by the caribou herd last year.
Mark...
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Yes. There are other requirements as well, but in terms of tires and lockers... nominal 35/12.50 mud terrain type tires and at least one axle locked.
This has been a constant on the Treks and will be the same in 2011. Beyond 2011, existence of the Trek is unlikely as we get Blue Moose Overland up and running.
Mark...
This has been a constant on the Treks and will be the same in 2011. Beyond 2011, existence of the Trek is unlikely as we get Blue Moose Overland up and running.
Mark...
Is there a date for the 2011 trip?
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He hasn't finished the lodge just yet!
Sadly, when the price of gold shot up to and over $1K an ounce... the 770 acre abandoned gold mine sitting within rifle shot of the glaciers of the Alaska Range that I was day dreaming of buying for the insiders price of $200K... well the asking price more than doubled.
No lodge For now.
Archie, where did you find that pic? It has been legal to domesticate moose in Alaska for a few years now, but this is the first one I have actually seen in a harness other than some old lithographs from the colony era.
I have often thought that a moose would be the perfect hunting/exploration pack animal if you really good breed the right personality traits in/out of the.
ACT 2011 will happen in the same general window as all the others. Late June-early August. Most likely right at the beginning of July. Nothing is actually planned for 2011 yet, except that there will be 4-6 vehicles available for rental to use on the trek.
Blue Moose Overland launches in 2012. First year will see groups of 4-6 client driven FJ80s (modified to the appropriate standards and capabilities) accompanied by 2 guides and an assistant or two for 8 day outings into the same areas that we have been taking the Trekkers. Everything provided except your clothes and cameras.
The hope/plan is to grow it to groups of 10 client rigs and add a support truck/chuck wagon with a couple more assistant guides to the mix as well.
Blue Moose outings will be conducted between June through September after we get spooled up. The first year or three we will keep the outings in a July-August window.
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