Alaska Cruiser Trek 80 Thread
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Bodean
Hot Damn
Awesome trip guys! More water crossings than I could count. We ate well, drank well, and had showers when we really needed one. Not used to packing heat when going to take a crap but did for 8 days! We have great pics and almost 4 hours of GoPro footage. We'll edit it and get a few video clips put together. Would do it again in a second!
I'll volunteer to watch 4 hours of footage!
Cruiserdrew
On the way there
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What's the verdict on your RTT being that the come-up didn't come out
What a tease...glad yall had a great time. Cant wait to see the pics
Bodean
Hot Damn
Well you effin Overlanders gonna have to let us rock krawler guys hang out now...
What an amazing place. Alaska has it figured out. Drink 20 hours a day in the summer because the sun is out and you dont know when to stop.
Drink 20 hours a day in the winter because its dark outside and the bears might sneak up on you.
Beautiful place. Eight nights in an oz tent laying on a oz cot was to lonbg for a fat boy. We had a great CottonLand group.
Pic's to come...
What an amazing place. Alaska has it figured out. Drink 20 hours a day in the summer because the sun is out and you dont know when to stop.
Drink 20 hours a day in the winter because its dark outside and the bears might sneak up on you.
Beautiful place. Eight nights in an oz tent laying on a oz cot was to lonbg for a fat boy. We had a great CottonLand group.
Pic's to come...
Open arms, brother......so long as you have the right pants.
I'm halfway done, I just need to gather a few more pics from Facebook.
Oh, that would be funny...using WCT's audio over a edited slide show/movie clip.
Bill (in the WCW) is still making his way home from AK. Took the inland route this time.
under_psi
SILVER Star
moar pix from trip
So while we wait for @wct49 to write our trip report (clears throat), here are a few pics to tide folks over.
There were water crossings. More than we could count. Some were shallow and some swallowed the rigs whole. This is Martha Tansy's monster 80. Fit for purpose.
And there were 40 series built for high water and muddy terrain. This is Kevin Holthouse's.
There was scenery beyond any other I've seen.
We also had breakage. Just minor stuff really. We were super prepared and nothing took more than a short time to fix. Here is @jrob with Martha jumping in to fix my hub studs.
And mud. Mostly at the end, but holy cow there was mud. Here is the WCW, @Bossman and @jrob after a slalom through the muddy, messy woods.
There were water crossings. More than we could count. Some were shallow and some swallowed the rigs whole. This is Martha Tansy's monster 80. Fit for purpose.
And there were 40 series built for high water and muddy terrain. This is Kevin Holthouse's.
There was scenery beyond any other I've seen.
We also had breakage. Just minor stuff really. We were super prepared and nothing took more than a short time to fix. Here is @jrob with Martha jumping in to fix my hub studs.
And mud. Mostly at the end, but holy cow there was mud. Here is the WCW, @Bossman and @jrob after a slalom through the muddy, messy woods.
@wct had 3 days laying up in Alaska to write this up before life took him down.
*** him. Tell us.
*** him. Tell us.
You are such an internet a******.
So it was a dark and stormy night...well at least in Atlanta is was. The CLC tribe wasn't able to get their flight on time on Wednesday, so Leonard and Frank who had hauled the CLC rigs up arrived before the boyz. My flight was on time and within 45 minutes of my arrival at the oh-so-classy Anchorage Motel 6, Bill, Ryan and Darryl (Ryan's co-pilot) rolled in. @Bossman @jrob @wct49 and @Bodean made it late that night. Dominic had been there for 2 days kicking around Anchorage and repairing one of the Alaska trucks after his homeland denied him access to their Monarchy. Bill dropped him back in Bellingham and he flew to Seattle, then to SFO, and then to Anchorage.
Once the 5 of us met up we had a lovely meal at the hotel bar (Crown) next door and headed off for our first Alaskan adventure together, the Alaskan Bush Company. Where we were witness to things I am not sure I can ever unsee. So between the women, the bar fight, and being asked to leave (we were not in the fight, but did have a bit of a disagreement with some Eastern European stripper about what consent means in the english language). We were not 86ed...just 43ed. So the return trip on the way out was still secure. More on that later.
I'd post pictures, but 1) there was a lot more than nipples and 2) taking pictures would surely have gotten us 86ed.
Anyway, the next morning the boyz were up and at 'em early with a shuttle up to Wasilla to unload the trailer and repack and supply the truck at Mark's shop. We followed later on, purchasing easily a metric ton of beer, and did some maintenance to the 325K odometer 80-series that just drove 3200 miles to get there. All went well, groceries were procured, trucks were outfitted, and off we went to Palmer, AK where we had reservations at the luxurious Eagle Hotel. OK, so not luxurious, BUT it was $85 a night, had a bar with a cute bartender, and they served good food. #winning
Stealing photos from FB:
Once the 5 of us met up we had a lovely meal at the hotel bar (Crown) next door and headed off for our first Alaskan adventure together, the Alaskan Bush Company. Where we were witness to things I am not sure I can ever unsee. So between the women, the bar fight, and being asked to leave (we were not in the fight, but did have a bit of a disagreement with some Eastern European stripper about what consent means in the english language). We were not 86ed...just 43ed. So the return trip on the way out was still secure. More on that later.
I'd post pictures, but 1) there was a lot more than nipples and 2) taking pictures would surely have gotten us 86ed.
Anyway, the next morning the boyz were up and at 'em early with a shuttle up to Wasilla to unload the trailer and repack and supply the truck at Mark's shop. We followed later on, purchasing easily a metric ton of beer, and did some maintenance to the 325K odometer 80-series that just drove 3200 miles to get there. All went well, groceries were procured, trucks were outfitted, and off we went to Palmer, AK where we had reservations at the luxurious Eagle Hotel. OK, so not luxurious, BUT it was $85 a night, had a bar with a cute bartender, and they served good food. #winning
Stealing photos from FB:
Practicing overlanding in the parking lot at Mark's shop while we worked and repacked.
