Man this weather were having is Crazy!!!!

[Roger]

hey roger!!! hear me blowing the horn at 4:21 pm yesterday

Kinda hard to hear ya ,When I was under the house with the torch going Should of stopped ,You would of had fun when all that water finally came gushing out on me, By the time I got back inside clothes were frozen solid

 

[Roger]

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel Wed jan 7 it is suppose to be 38 above 28 for a low

http://weather.msn.com/tenday.aspx?wealocations=wc:USAK0236&q=Talkeetna,+AK+forecast:tenday

So much for that light, It must of froze Now it says -2 Knew it was to good to be true

 

[MontanaRifleman]

I'll say the pipes froze twice at my house thats what I'll be doing today at -22 ,But there is a light at the end of the tunnel Wed jan 7 it is suppose to be 38 above 28 for a low

http://weather.msn.com/tenday.aspx?wealocations=wc:USAK0236&q=Talkeetna,+AK+forecast:tenday

Already did the frozen pipe thing, you guys are behind the times...

 

[Vince]

Kinda hard to hear ya ,When I was under the house with the torch going Should of stopped ,You would of had fun when all that water finally came gushing out on me, By the time I got back inside clothes were frozen solid

wish i had... would have helped ya... but er.... glad i didn't...long drive home wet...

 

[Ishmael]

A great book for cold days...

A great book for cold days...

The Worst Journey in the World


Apsley Cherry-Garrard,


http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14363



A memoir of Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913.
These guys took the British 'stiff upper lip" and "don't rock the boat" maxims to disastrous conclusions.
Scott's bad planning and Royal Navy habit of quashing dissent among the ranks led to his death 11 miles of flat ice away from the food and fuel that would likely have saved them.
But the worst of the trip was the Winter Journey... in the dark, with temps of -77, the three of them pulling a 750-lb sledge. By noon the first day, their heavy wool clothes were iced up like scratchy wood. They would stay either frozen or wet for the next 39 days and nights.
It was too cold to consider leaving a breathing hole in their caribou skin sleeping bags, so all their breath condensed inside their bags. When they woke up and got out of the bags, they poured the water out before it all froze inside. The bags took over an hour to get into after the first night of the trip because they were frozen hard and the caribou hair was directed towards the top of the bag.
Breaking camp took 4 hours, in part because each man's clothes had frozen in the shape they were in when he stopped sweating from pulling the sledge the day before.
One of the blizzards they encountered included temps of -57 with sustained Force 9 winds for 36 hours. Almost beyond belief.

Winter journey to Cape Crozier

This journey was the brainchild of Dr. Edward Wilson. He had suggested the need for it in the Zoology section of the Discovery Expedition's Scientific Reports, and was anxious to follow up this earlier research. The journey's scientific purpose was to secure Emperor Penguin eggs from the rookery near Cape Crozier at an early embryo stage, so that "particular points in the development of the bird could be worked out".[41] This required a trip in the depths of winter to obtain eggs in an appropriately early stage of incubation. A secondary purpose was to experiment with food rations and equipment in advance of the coming summer's polar journey.[42] Scott approved, and Bowers and Cherry-Garrard accompanied Wilson when the party set out on 22 June 1911.

Emperor Penguins


No previous expedition had attempted such a long journey during the Antarctic winter. Cherry-Garrard described the 19 days it took to travel the 60 miles (97 km) to Cape Crozier as "a horror", in which gear, clothes, and sleeping bags were constantly iced up. On 5 July, the temperature fell below -77°F (-60°C) – "109 degrees of frost – as cold as anyone would want to endure in darkness and iced up clothes".[43] Sometimes the daily distance travelled was no more than a single mile.
At Cape Crozier the party built an igloo from snow blocks, stone, and a sheet of wood they had brought for the roof. They had arrived early enough to collect several Emperor penguin eggs, but conditions were appalling. Their igloo shelter was almost destroyed in a blizzard with force 11 winds, as they lay in their sleeping bags for three days. The storm also carried away the tent upon which their survival would depend during their return journey, but fortunately this was recovered, half a mile away. Refusing to abandon their specimens despite the difficulties and dangers they were facing, the group returned to Cape Evans on 1 August. The three eggs that survived the journey went first to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington,[44] and thereafter were the subject of a report from Dr. Cossar Stewart at the University of Edinburgh.[45] They failed, however, to provide proof of Wilson's theories.[46]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World




When they returned, and they did return from the 120 mile Winter Journey, Cherry-Garrard's sopping wet underwear and "windproofs" weighed 24 pounds. His bag, over 60 lbs. 70% ice. Almost all his teeth were cracked from the cold.


On second thought, maybe it's better to read this in the sauna...

 

[Rock_skipper]

I'll tell you a story about my younger days;

We were taking this cat train into a mine when it was -40 something and we used mummybags with liner's for sleeping gear. Let me just say this, don't put them on the snow without some kinda lining underneath or you will need somebody to get you out of the thing That was a trip to remember. I slept on the track's of the dozer after thef irst night.

 

[mdhunter]

Where in CA?

Where in CA?

Yeah man, it´s cold here too. Walking down the street a few minutes ago I swear it dropped below 85.

Hey B - where in CA are you? I was in Ontario (about 60 miles SE of Los Angeles) for 5 days, flew back to MD yesterday - except for a persistent rain on Xmas day, 4 beautiful sunny days!

 

[fullkurl]

Just after posting on the other temp thread this morn we had a nasty stovepipe fire. Ended up getting out on trail later than expected after dealing with that and taking apart and cleaning all the pipe. Was -49 when I returned, good day on the trail, some cool stuff happens when it dips down to the -50 region.

Not sure if we will hear about it in the news, but wife was just outside and saw a falling star that ended up a huge flaming fireball, called me out just as it hit somewhere to the west and it was the freakiest thing I've ever seen, huge glow over where it hit (can't tell if it's ten miles off or fifty) and made a gigantic smoke trail that is now shifting in some breeze but must go up a good ten miles high.

Freaky stuff happenin', hope Brian is sipping a cold one for me!

Wow, Mark. Talk about the full plate today. Glad you got the home fires...um...burning properly and controlled.
The meteor story is interesting. Remarkably, here in Idaho we see falling meteors all the time. I've never seen anything like it. It really seems that we are in some sort of lane for their decent to earth. They are always flaming their way down too.

Maybe one of these days I'll see one actually impact, hopefully not on my head.

 

[MontanaRifleman]

Never heard of a smoke plume behind a meteor. Maybe it was a satelite/missle shoot down test or a military aircraft?

 

[jkb]

Very strange today, It was -20 in Big Lake in the morning. I drove to Palmer to AFW to get some horse stuff it was -13. When I got back to Big Lake it was 10 above. I went into Anchorage tonight it was -19 in Muldoon. Don't know where the 10 above came from.

 

[fullkurl]

Never heard of a smoke plume behind a meteor. Maybe it was a satelite/missle shoot down test or a military aircraft?

Yep, they do. Looks kinda like a volcanic rock flying down.

Satellite? Donno.
If Mark fins that "meteor" and closely inspects it he might see something along the lines of "made in China" on it....

It that political? <grin>

 

[hunt_ak]

Hey B - where in CA are you? I was in Ontario (about 60 miles SE of Los Angeles) for 5 days, flew back to MD yesterday - except for a persistent rain on Xmas day, 4 beautiful sunny days!

No CA, but Mexico! He's rounding off 17 days down there. I would look like this (because of the color of my skin) after that much time

 

[BTK]

Sorry Brian

Sorry Brian

But I think your pipes froze and cracked. The good news is they started flowing again. Don't worry about a thing while you're down there, though. It will all be waiting for you.....

Happy New Year!

 

[Brian M]

But I think your pipes froze and cracked. The good news is they started flowing again. Don't worry about a thing while you're down there, though. It will all be waiting for you.....

Ha! Thankfully, this time my wife and I had some friends stay at our house. That was comfort when we read that the temps got so low. So far, all is well on the home front.

As for here, it´s again mid 80s and sunny. I just got up from my first dive of the morning on the coral heads right off the beach. Only 20´deep, but great visibility and lots of fish. I took a borrowed video camera down and had a great time filming fish.

Only two more days. I know, poor Brian. Perhaps the rest of you could take up a collection so that I could extend my stay without missing any bills.

 

[alaskachuck]

Bite me Brian Glad to hear the house is ok. Makes the trip that much better when you only worry is where to dive next

 

[Brian M]

OK, who has been screwing with the thermostat?

105 degree change from 16 hours ago for me and my family. Yikes! Now it's 4:30am and my boy thinks it is 7:30 and time to wake up and play.

 

[JOAT]

OK, who has been screwing with the thermostat?

105 degree change from 16 hours ago for me and my family. Yikes! Now it's 4:30am and my boy thinks it is 7:30 and time to wake up and play.

Ha... welcome back to Alaska!

 

[fullkurl]

OK, who has been screwing with the thermostat?

105 degree change from 16 hours ago for me and my family. Yikes! Now it's 4:30am and my boy thinks it is 7:30 and time to wake up and play.

....Can recall days of jumping into the 155* sauna at the Fairbanks Athletic Club (now the Alaska Club north) after a workout and then heading our into the -55* cold--a 207* temperature swing!