Cleary Summit Trails Run, Jan 21, 2012

We meet at Chatanika Lodge for breakfast, 15 folks showed but only 10 brought along their sleds to ride. The temps at the lodge was -26 below when we arrived, so we decided to head up to Cleary Summit, where the temps were a balmy -2 below.

Chuck did a great job as our ride leader and took us on two separate rides. On the first run we crossed the Steese and Elliott Hwy’s to Murphy Dome road and then rode along the pipeline towards Fox and then south to the Goldstream Valley. Kerry, riding a new Skandix took a little side trip into the trees when he hit a dip that turned out to be a double dip a bit deeper then he thought, a couple good pictures of his “Tree Hugging” adventures and us getting him out included below.

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Nice 60 mile ride in temps from -25 below to 2 above.

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Snowstorm Aftermath – January 6, 2012 – Cordova, Alaska

Cordova is my favorite coastal town.

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The cabin near Hurricane, a summary of decisions and progress.

I figured I needed to do a summary on how we got to where we are and all the trips and work done so far to get a cabin built in the woods.

So back in Jan 2009, my buddy Dean and I decided to check out 5 acres of land east of the Parks Hwy at Mile Marker 169. This was the land advertised for sale that my wife Trish discovered one day and that Dean and I spent a day trying to locate, but could never find the corner markers. Of course it didn’t help that there was 10 feet of snow on the ground the day we tried to locate the property corners. But it did help to convince us to buy the place as a great get a way for riding our snow machines.

Summary Of Hurricane Cabin

Photos from my summary of the Hurricane Cabin building, Feb 09 through Dec 2011

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Dean walking in the deep snow
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View toward Denali and the Alaska Range
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The wall of brush
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Placing the floor beams
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Placing the floor beams
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Ready for floor joist
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Setting the floor
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Snow and Christmas

Snow and Merry Christmas
So I decided to lead another club ride, this time to Angle Creek Lodge, up the winter trail from 27 mile Chena Hot Springs Road (CHSR). The temps were questionable, at least the forecast was calling for -20 below temps. We got lucky, the temps at the trail head where we started was 3 above at 10:00 AM when we left and stayed in the above zero range all day.


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A snow filled weekend

Had a great ride Saturday with some of the Snow Travelers members and a couple of some “soon” to be members. We headed into the White Mountains with the plan to make it to Richards cabin, one of the remote cabins the BLM maintains for recreational use. We did make it and the ride was great for December, fresh snow on the ground and almost no other tracks on the trail. We started out with a head count of 5, lost 1 about 3 miles in do to engine trouble. Ended with 4 of us at the cabin and then picked up another member on the way out, so we were 5/4/5 on riders for the day.


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Winter Trail

First real local ride of the season for me. This wasn’t a planned club ride, but it turned out to be a good one. 10 of us meet at the large pull out on Nordale road and headed towards Pleasant Valley at 22 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road.


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Another Cabin Weekend

It’s the 2nd week of November and we got our first real snowfall, so Tyler and I drove to the cabin to get some work done. Plan was to get the furnace and fuel hauled in and then work on running the electrical wiring for the lights and wall plugs. Sean, Melissa’s boyfriend, or un-husband as she calls him, came down Friday night to help, as he’s an electrician I figured we would make short work of it. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.


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Snow Time

A vid from one of the FST club rider’s at Summit this past weekend.

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2nd Amendent

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