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09-22-2008, 09:59 AM
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Tough Alaskan jobs
How would you like to have to walk to your job? 400 miles from Nenana to Flat. Then walk back out in the fall. I read the story of Elmer Kertui a few years ago. It's an awesome read. We think we have it tough when gas prices tug at the wallet.
Oscar began making trips to Flat City where he worked as shoreman on a gold dredge. His wife and daughter stayed in Detroit. Oscar went each spring to Nenana, Alaska, where he got off the train, and with a packsack on his back, walked about four hundred miles to Flat, following the winter mail dog team trail. Each fall, when the dredge had to be shut down due to freezeup, he walked back to Nenana and returned to Detroit for the winter.
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09-22-2008, 10:16 AM
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i walk through the woods every day but i go home at night...
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09-22-2008, 10:20 AM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Alaska, where women win the Iditarod and men mush poodles!
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I bet he didn't have to watch his cholesterol.
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09-22-2008, 01:14 PM
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Location: Interior Alaska (PAFB)
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Hard.
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09-22-2008, 01:40 PM
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I'm not there because I'm here
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I'd have thought it was a lot tougher building the railroad he rode on to Nenana. I can think of very few things more difficult that building a railroad, cutting a road bed, laying the ties, and then the rails, through total wilderness.
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09-22-2008, 04:05 PM
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It makes you wonder how they got by without Blackberrys.
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09-22-2008, 04:29 PM
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I am downright amazed at what I can destroy
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Think he had it tough, I have to sit here on a daily basis wondering which song to play and try and make sure I don't overplay that song from day to day. Pretty tough I tell ya.
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09-22-2008, 04:48 PM
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Prince of Darkness
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Location: Anchorage
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You're a HARD man, Warpt. Don't come no tougher than men like you! LOL.
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09-22-2008, 08:46 PM
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When I lived in Barrow I'd walk from the 12 plexes to the Post Office in all types of weather. 20below, 30 below zero. Maybe a mile or so round trip, I thought I had it rough. I couldn't imagine walking 25 miles a day just to get to the next roadhouse. And doing that for 17 days straight.
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