Don't eat the yellow snow...

 With it looking like rain I decided to put the National park on hold and drive to Fairbanks, the road gets a bit more scruffy and quite a roller coaster in places and you keep getting. uzzed by 18 wheel trucks full of cargo heading North .

I know it. must get boring with a couple of hours daylight and temperatures of minus 40 farenheit so the townspeople of Nenana have their own ways of making entertainment.... in March they hold a week long festival which includes competitions such as egg toss, homemade bread, banana eating , moose call. you get the idea..... the highlight of this is the dragging out and mounting on the ice of the "tripod" a 4 legged wooden structure which sits on the frozen river with people placing bets as to the date and time the ice will melt and the tripod will fall....... the prize is the pot of money which was over £200,000 this year. it's not an instant thing.. sometimes it takes weeks but I guess there isn't that much else to do in the winter in these parts!

driving North

Pipeline
what happens when you find oil hundreds of miles from anywhere? you pipe it 800 miles to the nearest port. obviously,
The pipeline took 2 years to build including the sub zero winters... can you imagine a pipeline from Devizes to John O Groats in 2 years flat? no, thought not. more like 20 years at home.

Ice

60 miles up a road to nowhere is an ice sculpture "museum"  in a freezer room with an ice bar where you can drink out of martini glasses made out of ice.

it's hard to photograph ice in a room lit by led lighting, especially when there are loads of people breathing in there but I had a go with the new camera.

I think they might be running out of names for roads up here!

 imagine living up this one......

Perhaps it has something to do with this.......