In the early going of my second hike across Alaska along the route of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, I chose to walk the highway rather than the pipe’s route to get up Thompson Pass north of Valdez. The road added six miles to our day. But I tried the pipe route up the pass 20 years […]
Alaska State Troopers reported that they opened an investigation into a burglary at the 12 mile Roadhouse in North Pole at 8:55 am on Sunday. As the investigation continued, it was discovered that a 2001 Ford truck with a trailer, that was hauling a bulldozer, was stolen from State Forestry. At 5:30 p.m., that pickup […]
[cycloneslider id=”fuel-cleanup”] (Hover over image to pause slideshow) Although the secondary tank carrying #11 Ultra-Low Sulfer diesel that rolled over in a ditch at mile 306 of the Richardson Highway on Labor Day has been pumped out and the tanker pulled out and removed from the scene, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation did not […]
13 people were injured and transported to medical facilities by air and ground ambulances in a two vehicle collision on the Richardson Highway on Sunday the trooper dispatch reported on Monday. The report went on to say that troopers opened an investigation into the Sunday morning crash and found that at 10:49 am, a 1994 […]