This is a project going on at the Princess Lodge at mile 133 on the Parks highway. I’m a finish carpenter on another part of the job; this is a restaurant – 8000 sq.ft. with a bunch of bond beams, footings, and pads already poured. It’s about -10 f. They want to pour the slab on Friday. Also included are a few shots of Denali from the jobsite.
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here's the job:
Edited to say these files are a little big - hafta be patient if you're on dial up.
Edited 1/19/2006 1:15 am by AlanRoberson
great shot of the sun/moon..
the concrete guys look like it's old hat to themMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
No thanks. If I am up there it is on vacation. I would rather pour concrete in 105 degree weather. It is a little nicer in February in Texas when it is 61.
Loved it in Alaska, went on a cruise up the inner passage / Ketchican / Juneau / Sitka and Glacier National Park. Beautiful, like sailing through a picture.
Alan,
I'm on dialup, but I will wait for the moon set-sun rise if you have the original 2-3Mb pic.
SamT
Sam,Is this any better?Joe Carola
Joe,
I was hoping Alan would upload a hi-res image suitable for wallpaper.
I don't mind waiting for some files. Heh, I downloaded a 638MB CD image once. Took 1 1/2 days and 22 restarts.
SamT
Here's the original, Sam.
Alan,
Thanks, that's gonna look realy nice on my desktop.
SamT
Got a Bob Ross moment going on there. Happy little trees and all. ;)
jt8
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Too funny..I was unimpressed by the LACK of trees there..tundra is booooorrrring.
Go inland, you'll find a desert of indian paint brush, then..well..scrub bush, then..moss.
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Interesting... the tow-behind 'ground heater'. Is that putting out hot air and inflating the tent, or is it doing something else? I don't see a propane tank.
The ground heater is a portable radiant floor, basically. Just a few hundred feet of tubing that is run by a fuel oil furnace. They lay it out on the ground that needs to be thawed, cover it w/ blankets and dig up the thawed dirt the next morning. Maybe 1 foot at a time?
The tent is inflated by frost fighters and a propane heater, BTW.I really don't know much about what they're doing - I'm a finish carp, and if I hang around there too much somebody wiil give me a shovel.
I really don't know much about what they're doing - I'm a finish carp, and if I hang around there too much somebody wiil give me a shovel.
And nobody wants that!
Nice pictures
Doug
First. Those are mighty pretty photos.
Re: "It's about -10 f."
Pouring concrete at -10F?
So either your saying they forgot to set the alarm and slept through summer or, perhaps, -10F is summer.
This place has 500 - 1000 tourists running around in the summer, so we don't get to do everything we want when we want to. This is just part of the game, I guess. They must make a lot of money to only be open 4 months out of the year.
I wonder how deep the footings have to go up there.
Landed at Anchoridge in may 73 on way to Tokyo , only airport i was ever in where you were warned to not stray from the terminal due to the presence of polar bears in the area
on take off in the 747 i dident think we would ever get off we went up so slowly i could of sworn you could of dropped a line out the window & fished if the water haddent been frozen
Coldest dam looking place i ever seen
It is not the polar bears ya gotta watch out for it is the damm moose.
I spent a month up in Talkeena and The Matanuska Valley, lucky for me it was late summer, my S.O. who was born and raised there, had some wild stories about the moose.
The best was a photo sequence she had taken from inside her cabin (log).. a bull moose had somehow wriggled his head in through an open window to nibble flowers on the table , that was picture1
Pic2 was a dachshund getting up on a chair and giving Mr.Bullwinkle the what for...
pic3 was moose making a rearward departure with out taking time to unwriggle his antlers
pic4 was window frame missing and a few of the side logs splayed out from the wall
pic5 was moose's caboose shot with a window frame around his neck like a horse collar trotting away into the woods.
I woulda moved there in a heart beat but she had moved away after having 2 husbands DIE there , plane crash and fishing boat sank in Cook inlet. She was determined she would never let anyone she loved live there ever again.
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I live in Talkeetna but we are getting ready to move to western Montana. Winters aren't all that severe here just long. Been here 10 years got nothing to prove. I really like everything else about AK, though
The state fair was my most memorable experiance. I never saw a head of cabbage 3' in diameter before..LOL
I think that was in Wasilla or Palmer. I also loved Soldatna and Homer area.
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Alan, is that the Princess Lodge in Talkeetna--behind the airport? >>I live in Talkeetna but we are getting ready to move to western Montana. Winters aren't all that severe here just long. Been here 10 years got nothing to prove. Jeez, that's exactly how long it took me to realize I had nothing to prove. I traded my 10 long winters for long summers (in Florida) a few years back. The pictures remind me of the beauty I miss, but the cold I don't. Good luck with your relocate.PS: are they done with the roadwork on the Parks yet??
It's the Princess hotel up the road 35 miles where the Chulitna crosses the Parks highway. The hotel in town is a different outfit.I don't think they'll ever be done with construction on the parks. If you mean by paved, then yes, it's been paved longer than i've been here. Why should we stop when the lower 48 keeps sending us millions to play with?
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And a few from inside the tent... the second half of the slab. Scheduled to pour on monday, but there's a cold snap now - has to be no colder than -15f., and it was -30f. at my place this morning.
Alan
You got to resize those pic's, there huge!
Some of the dial up folks wont open them.
I resized them
Doug
Well, being slightly tiddly I put the moonset pic as wall paper on my desktop...what do you know, it sure looks a lot better than a pic of some crummy house I built. Hope you don't mind...
All the best...
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