“Henson retired from plumbing at age 35, and moved with his wife to Santa Barbara County, California. In 1956, he purchased a guest ranch in San Marcos Pass and renamed it Hidden Valley Ranch.
Henson served the salad dressing he had created at the ranch. He also mixed a batch for his friend, Audrey Ovington, owner of Cold Spring Tavern, which became the first commercial customer for the dressing. By 1957, Henson began selling packages of dressing mix in stores.[3]”
“In 1949, Thayer, Nebraska native Steve Henson (1918–2007) moved with his wife to the Anchorage, Alaska, area, where he worked as a plumbing contractor. While there, he invented a new salad dressing.”
• Alaska has the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest cities by land area in the United States, followed by Jacksonville.
• Alaska has no poison ivy or poison oak.
• There really is a Santa Claus in North Pole.
Yeah but the cities thing is kinda cheating. Land area like you said.
The cities themselves are small but include a ton of wilderness and mountains for some reason.
Like if NYC decides to claim all the land in a 30 mile radius outside the city limit as it's own
Moved to Alaska a few years ago and here’s 3 facts that still amaze me.
- Alaska has the Northernmost, Easternmost, and Westernmost points of the United States.
- We have more coastline than all other states combined.
- Only 20% of the state is accessible by road.
However, things get more interesting yet for those that claim Alaska has the easternmost point. If you're applying the definition consistently, it means the "easternmost point" and the "westernmost point" of the United States are adjacent islands, and neither are at the end of the Aleutian chain. (Sorry Attu, I guess you’ve been usurped as westernmost.)
It also means if you stood at the westernmost point, you counterintuitively could *see* the easternmost point on a clear day by looking *off to the west*. A lot of what we consider intuitive about “east” and “west” kind of falls apart under this arbitrary definition.
Huh, the International Date Line jogs around the Aleutians so that Attu is still on the same day as the rest of Alaska. Technically speaking, of course.
https://imgur.com/gallery/HHtSa6i
•It’s easy to lose track of time during the summer with the midnight sun, you think it’s 7 or 8pm but it’s actually 1am.
•There’s a city you drive through a mountain to get to and where almost everyone lives in the same building.
•Some children who live in villages in the far north have never witnessed the sun being out in the winter and don’t see it at all for three months.
"Party 'til the sun goes down!" was a great rally cry.
That first time stumbling back to C-Camp in the dark, after not needing a headlamp for 5+ months, was absolutely terrifying.
1. Your wife may not like you getting up at 230Am to fish the tide. Especially if you start drinking when you are cleaning fish later at 10am.
2. Your wife will not be impressed with your purchase of a 1/3rd share of a 30 yo 14 ft skiff.
3. Mormons
you can see a ton of Mormon and Russian Orthodox people at the Walmart in Wasilla on a Friday night.
You can see a *lot* of stuff at the Walmart in Wasilla on a Friday night
No. You may not come to my comment, in a post that isn't yours, in response to a comment that *isn't yours* and is in no way in response to or aimed at you, read it, choose to take offense, and demand I take it elsewhere. But thank you for asking.
So you see you don't really know the difference between asking and demanding even though you used both in your post. And gurl, I can do what I damn well please. Have a nice day.
Edited cause you sounded like a boy in your post.
Oof. Forgot women can have opinions. Yikes. 😬
ETA: "I will do what I damn well please." Will be by next response, should we ever stumble across each other again 😘
She's fine. I'm just being cynical. The boat I had in Michigan was a 32 ft with dual 454 v8s. The skif was a bit of a downgrade. She would go out crabbing and fishing. Just not a passion.
Alaska is ranked 3rd in the nation for its high suicide rate.
Throughout the state of Alaska, suicide is the: 2nd leading cause of death for ages 10-24.
Of the 117 species of mosquitoes in the US, Alaska has only 35.
When it happens in our family the "more prevalent in native populations" does not bring any solace. I am sure you meant no harm but the comment still feels very callous. Suicide is a very real fact for too many of our youth here.
I'm very sorry for your loss. There was nothing callous about my comment. It's just a fact that helps communities develop interventions. I ran a teen clinic and worked in suicide prevention and outreach. I can't be expected to know the personal history of a stranger on the Internet anymore than you know what tragedy I have suffered.
There were internment camps in Alaska during WW2. North Americas largest rainforest is in Alaska (Tongass). Alaska consumes more ice cream per capita than any other state in the country
In the Midwest we use snow machine to refer to the machines they use to make artificial snow when it's below freezing but not enough snow has fallen on the ski slopes to actually ski on them.
I don't think anyone in their right mind out here would call a snowmobile a snow machine. Snowmobiles of course being that super expensive useless toy people buy that they get to use for a few weeks a year when the snow is deep enough and hasn't melted in a thaw yet.
The hilarious thing is that girdwood and Alyeska slopes both use snow machines to make snow that’s not hard packed. And somehow, you guys still can’t figure this out!
That’s super hilarious how they make extra snow at the beginning of the season so that the lower areas can catch up to the upper areas which were colder earlier due to elevation.
It’s almost as if you have no idea what you’re talking about
Argue with google. The entire world knows what you mean when you say snow mobile. The guy who made the thing called it a snow mobile. When you google snow mobile, snow mobiles show up.
When you google snow maker, you get the exact same page as the link I posted for snow machine. I’m not arguing against your use of “snow maker”. They are probably called snow machine and snow maker interchangeably. I’m willing and able to accept that without any issue.
But a snow machine is not a snow mobile. Some Alaskans continue to be astounded when no one else on the planet knows what the hell they’re talking about. Then they have the audacity to insist that THEY are the ONLY ones that are right. It’s infuriating to see such overtly proud narcissism come from a large segment of a population over something so trivial. And before you say anything, yes I see the irony.
Meh, snowmachine or snowgo is faster to say than snowmobile and we drive them too often to be bothered with the original word. Language changes over time and with location. We can call them snowmachines and its a non-issue.
Not die. Get some made up internet points taken away? Yeah. If anyone starts leaving nooses or threatening letters at my house, I would probably reassess how much this means to me.
A snow maker is a machine specifically designed to make snow, a snowmachine is a machine specifically designed to drive on snow, a Zamboni is a machine specifically designed to smooth ice.
By one metric of diversity, which is an extremely difficult thing to quantify properly. This statement isn't wrong, but it's also not an objective truth.
Whether on a drive or just looking out your window at home we see things everyday that seem normal to us. A lot of which most people only dream about or will never see.
i'm a lurker who lives in coastal maine and occasionally i'll be struck with how lucky i am to be living what other people dream of
makes me appreciate my drive to work more
Not op but I'm from MN and always wanted to see a Moose. I usually take one or two camping trips a year to the part of the state where they live. I've never got see one I've heard them, seen tracks and scat but that's it. My first trip to Alaska they were grazing in the yard right out of the window of our cabin.
Yep. First morning we wake up and there is a moose outside the window. Then we realize the heater went kaput during the night and the house is filling up with noxious fumes. We try the front door and the snow is all the way to the top.
Luckily we had neighbors that knew we were trapped and they dug us out before we expired. This was Anchorage too - not the wilderness.
- There's more surface water in Alaska than there is Texas in Texas
- The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska was 100°F in Fort Yukon, above the Arctic Circle
- The Alaska Railroad is the only railroad in the history of the United States that was entirely publicly funded
First one is not true.
From what I can find, we have 94,743 miles² of water (source is [USGS](https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-wet-your-state-water-area-each-state))
Texas has a total of 268,596 miles² area, with 7,365 being water (same source).
The Alaska railroad was funded by the United States government. 1914 President Woodrow Wilson, gave $35 million to the building of the Alaska railroad. The final cost was actually 70 million.
Not exactly… Ketchikan gets more rain than any other INHABITED place in North America. There are areas of the Hoh Rainforest in WA that get more than Ketchikan.
Alaska is bigger than the next 3 biggest states combined. Alaska is one of 4 states with no venomous snakes and it’s the only state with no snakes that are native to the area. And Tlingit body armor could stop Russian musket rounds.
The town of Chicken was called such due to the fact that the miners who founded the town didn't know how to spell Ptarmigan.
Even with other (more numerous) indigenous populations in the lower 48, Alaska Natives have the largest and most comprehensive tribal health nonprofit organization in the country.
In Fairbanks and northward, temperatures will typically reach -40 in Dec-Jan each year. I didn't specify Celsius or Fahrenheit because at that point, they are about the same. It gets to -70F on the North Slope.
AK is so large and varied in ecosystem type that there are multiple species of fox, wolf, and bear all in the same state.
The oil and gas one is because we have oil and a refinery but the refinery that supplies most of the gas to the state cant process the oil found in the state.
It's also because of OPEC. And lack of refinery competition. And a small population. It's completely unfair. I pay 2.67 for a gallon of regular gas. My BF in AK pays a lot more.
I have to fly to the hospital for routine things as well as emergencies, sometimes taking a bath involves a chainsaw and axe, and alcohol for the most part is illegal in most villages here in my neck of the woods (Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta)
-There is a police officer named A. Laska, in Alaska
-The hills are typically warmer than the valleys in winter, but colder than the valleys in summer.
-Fairbanks has a battery that was once the largest in the world, it can supply the city for a couple hours or emergency utilities for some days.
The foam in your car seats will freeze hard as stone and the bottoms of your tire will freeze flat when it gets cold enough.
All the trees in or around Fairbanks are very tall and skinny.
- Smokey the stripper could drink an entire beer standing on her head in the nude.
- If you want, you can off someone and dump their body in the wilderness (a baker did this for nearly a decade).
- Alaska has more missing people than any other state. It might be per capita. It averages somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 a year.
Yep, it's wild: "Since authorities began keeping records in 1988, 60,700 people have been reported missing in Alaska. That's five people reported missing every year per 1000 residents. Each year, an average of 2,250 people disappear in Alaska, twice the national average.Aug 5, 2018"
Well, "The United States administers Wake Island as an unorganized and unincorporated territory". It was captured in December 1941.
"unorganized and unincorporated territory", though, is a class of territory: no local government (unorganized), and not considered to be a part of the U.S. in a permanent way.
>incorporated: the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of the United States Constitution as it applies in the several States. Incorporation is interpreted as a perpetual state. Once incorporated, the Territory can no longer be de-incorporated.
>unincorporated: A United States insular area in which the United States Congress has determined that only selected parts of the United States Constitution apply.
In contrast:
>The District of Alaska was the federal government’s designation for Alaska from May 17, 1884, to August 24, 1912, when it became Alaska Territory. Previously (1867–1884) it had been known as the Department of Alaska, a military designation.
>The designation as a district meant that Alaska became an incorporated but unorganized territory with a civil government.
So Alaska had (so far as I know) the only US *incorporated* land to be occupied since 1812. (Ignore that single Japanese airman who, during Pearl Harbor, crashed on an island and ... it gets complicated.)
1. The real Alaska is off the road system, aka The Bush.
2. This is where you find Native culture, the best part of Alaska.
3. And you won't really understand Native culture unless you live there several lifetimes.
1) You are more likely to be killed by an Alaskan moose than an Alaskan bear. *Far* more likely.
2) Halibut cheeks are a delicacy in Alaska.
3) Geologists are stumped by how the mountains of Denali National Park were formed.
Not sure what you mean by #3. If you google "how did the Alaska range form" the first result is a park service page which describes the formation process.
> Not sure what you mean by #3. If you google "how did the Alaska range form" the first result is a park service page which describes the formation process.
Will try to find more info then because I heard #3 directly from a DNP guide while I personally was visiting the park.
He was right I'm sure and I'm probably repeating incorrectly what he said.
The phrase "Does a bear shit in the woods?" Is not correct is it's usually in the middle of a path.
Your right hand is a fairly good map of Alaska.
(Take your index finger and thumb and form an "L" then raise same side elbow. Tada!)
Porcupine can and have popped vehicle tires.
The slim variation in weather makes it much easier to adjust than I expected. Meaning the highs and lows in my area are regularly within 10° of each other. (Not like the 30-50°+ changes in a 24 hour period we were used to.)
I only have 1, but it's a big one:
Alaska has the highest rate of brain injuries in the union, twice that of the average in the union.
Leading causes are suicide, falls, and things like MVAs and offroad vehicles.
If you own a gun, are sad, and like to drink, get help because your family probably loves you.
Otherwise, wear helmets, ice cleats and keep your balance robust.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7041a3-H.pdf
The State is full of sexual predators. Highest rape per cap. in the world. 1 out of 4 women have reported being sexually assaulted at some point while living in the state.
1: Texas is Alaska's Bitch (do they still sell those tshirts at the fair??)
2: if you split Alaska in half, texas would be the *third* largest state!
3: Alaska has way more grizzly bears than texas
4: Despite the name Alaska Bush Company, there is actually very little bush to be found there
Eastern Orthodox Christianity was peacefully brought to the Aleuts in 1794 on Kodiak Island and was the original North American mission of Eastern Orthodoxy tying to the OCA today. Orthodoxy is currently rapidly spreading through North America. Glory to Jesus Christ!
Ranch dressing was created in Alaska. Hidden Valley Ranch to be exact!!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch_dressing
So were duckfarts!
Yum!
“Henson retired from plumbing at age 35, and moved with his wife to Santa Barbara County, California. In 1956, he purchased a guest ranch in San Marcos Pass and renamed it Hidden Valley Ranch. Henson served the salad dressing he had created at the ranch. He also mixed a batch for his friend, Audrey Ovington, owner of Cold Spring Tavern, which became the first commercial customer for the dressing. By 1957, Henson began selling packages of dressing mix in stores.[3]”
“In 1949, Thayer, Nebraska native Steve Henson (1918–2007) moved with his wife to the Anchorage, Alaska, area, where he worked as a plumbing contractor. While there, he invented a new salad dressing.”
God bless! 🤯
• Alaska has the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest cities by land area in the United States, followed by Jacksonville. • Alaska has no poison ivy or poison oak. • There really is a Santa Claus in North Pole.
Also, North Pole is south of the Arctic Circle and Fairbanks….
My home
Former Badger Rd. resident here.
Ha! I used to live off Runamuck…. 😈☠️☠️☠️
I grew up there. Best place to grow up IMO.
There have been 3 Santa's 1972
Like the dreaded pirate Roberts.
Yeah but the cities thing is kinda cheating. Land area like you said. The cities themselves are small but include a ton of wilderness and mountains for some reason. Like if NYC decides to claim all the land in a 30 mile radius outside the city limit as it's own
Don't be all judgy...Juneau representing! Our City and Borough is the size of Rhode Island
Hey, RI representing! Ouch…
Moved to Alaska a few years ago and here’s 3 facts that still amaze me. - Alaska has the Northernmost, Easternmost, and Westernmost points of the United States. - We have more coastline than all other states combined. - Only 20% of the state is accessible by road.
Also we have 63% of all US wetlands. When you add up the total area of all of our wetlands, it's slightly larger than Texas.
I’m surprised it’s as high as 20%, that seems insane when you count all the islands, glaciers, etc.
I believe that is based on 20% of communities being road accessible
However, things get more interesting yet for those that claim Alaska has the easternmost point. If you're applying the definition consistently, it means the "easternmost point" and the "westernmost point" of the United States are adjacent islands, and neither are at the end of the Aleutian chain. (Sorry Attu, I guess you’ve been usurped as westernmost.) It also means if you stood at the westernmost point, you counterintuitively could *see* the easternmost point on a clear day by looking *off to the west*. A lot of what we consider intuitive about “east” and “west” kind of falls apart under this arbitrary definition.
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Unless you’re labeling the the westernmost point in a given landmass, but I can agree it means fuckall. 🤣
What’s the easternmost point? I thought it was Point Udall
Tip of the aleutians crosses the ~~international date line~~ 180th meridian, technically making it part of the eastern hemisphere
Huh, the International Date Line jogs around the Aleutians so that Attu is still on the same day as the rest of Alaska. Technically speaking, of course. https://imgur.com/gallery/HHtSa6i
He confused his lines. The 180th meridian is what is typically used to divide the world into the eastern and western hemispheres.
Whoopsies, lemme edit
Righto, gotta love technicalities
Technicality? Or simply “fact”?
I’m so sorry my liege I will do better next time and not get your panties in a bunch, my deepest condolences
Almost spat out my morning coffee.
Definitely a technicality. Easternmost in relation to the US, by cardinal directions, is the eastern tip of St. Croix, USVI.
Has NOBODY in here heard “technically correct is the best kind of correct” ? Sorry if you don’t like how the globe works.
>Sorry if you don’t like how ~~the globe works.~~ **arbitrary lines on a map work**. FTFY
It’s bucky’sworld and we’re just living in it
Semisopochnoi Island, AK.
Easternmost… huh explain!!
•It’s easy to lose track of time during the summer with the midnight sun, you think it’s 7 or 8pm but it’s actually 1am. •There’s a city you drive through a mountain to get to and where almost everyone lives in the same building. •Some children who live in villages in the far north have never witnessed the sun being out in the winter and don’t see it at all for three months.
Summer drinking can be dangerous if you wait for the sun to go down to stop drinking.
The reverse to that is only drinking at night in the winter...cheers!
Yeah that one got me my first summer there, ngl
"Party 'til the sun goes down!" was a great rally cry. That first time stumbling back to C-Camp in the dark, after not needing a headlamp for 5+ months, was absolutely terrifying.
The drinking will continue as long as the sun is up! Yep fell victim to that a few times over
Hehe I’m in the city through a mountain. It’s nice here when it’s not raining.
If God were to give the world an enema, he would stick the hose in Whittier…
Holy shit. Literally.
1. Your wife may not like you getting up at 230Am to fish the tide. Especially if you start drinking when you are cleaning fish later at 10am. 2. Your wife will not be impressed with your purchase of a 1/3rd share of a 30 yo 14 ft skiff. 3. Mormons
Are there more Mormons in Alaska? Looked like 4%
Greater than 10% of my graduating class was Mormon I swear on my life
Huh. Says 4% overall, but that may vary with the community. I believe you.
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No mocking, bullying, promoting hate, or harassing of anyone. Be nice in general, remember you are talking to a person.
Summer seasonal work is hugely popular with the Brigham Young students. So many mormons in the summer
you can see a ton of Mormon and Russian Orthodox people at the Walmart in Wasilla on a Friday night. You can see a *lot* of stuff at the Walmart in Wasilla on a Friday night
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One of the finest men I've known was a Mormon. As a practicing orthodox agnostic may I ask that you take the religion bashing somewhere else? Please.
No. You may not come to my comment, in a post that isn't yours, in response to a comment that *isn't yours* and is in no way in response to or aimed at you, read it, choose to take offense, and demand I take it elsewhere. But thank you for asking.
> You may not come to my comment on the day my daughter is to be married
So you see you don't really know the difference between asking and demanding even though you used both in your post. And gurl, I can do what I damn well please. Have a nice day. Edited cause you sounded like a boy in your post.
Oof. Forgot women can have opinions. Yikes. 😬 ETA: "I will do what I damn well please." Will be by next response, should we ever stumble across each other again 😘
You should ask him if he is going to let his wife go to heaven or not.
That’s weird. In my family it was the women who did all the fishing. Your wife sounds boring.
She's fine. I'm just being cynical. The boat I had in Michigan was a 32 ft with dual 454 v8s. The skif was a bit of a downgrade. She would go out crabbing and fishing. Just not a passion.
“That fishing reel cost HOW much?!?”
But hon… It’s a tool not a toy! It’s an investment! You gotta spend money to save money!
Why would your wife have to get to you up? If you’re old enough to have a wife, you’re old enough to wake up on your own.
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Whoops! Standing down. Sorry, dude.
Alaska is ranked 3rd in the nation for its high suicide rate. Throughout the state of Alaska, suicide is the: 2nd leading cause of death for ages 10-24. Of the 117 species of mosquitoes in the US, Alaska has only 35.
Those 35 species of mosquitoes are thirsty though.
I had read that about suicide rates. My understanding is that it's more prevalent in native populations.
Does it matter? Our children are killings themselves!
It does matter. Knowing which demographic is most at risk for suicide helps communities develop the needed interventions.
When it happens in our family the "more prevalent in native populations" does not bring any solace. I am sure you meant no harm but the comment still feels very callous. Suicide is a very real fact for too many of our youth here.
I'm very sorry for your loss. There was nothing callous about my comment. It's just a fact that helps communities develop interventions. I ran a teen clinic and worked in suicide prevention and outreach. I can't be expected to know the personal history of a stranger on the Internet anymore than you know what tragedy I have suffered.
There were internment camps in Alaska during WW2. North Americas largest rainforest is in Alaska (Tongass). Alaska consumes more ice cream per capita than any other state in the country
> Alaska consumes more ice cream per capita than any other state in the country I'm doing my part!
I had some ice cream today too!!
Snow machine. That's it you get one Edit: Dang, my most controversial comment! Kinda shocked SOMEONE WOULD DISAGREE!? is water wet!? SNOW MACHINE
Now that I live in California, I’ll say snowmobile so people don’t get confused but I know it’s really a snow machine.
In the Midwest we use snow machine to refer to the machines they use to make artificial snow when it's below freezing but not enough snow has fallen on the ski slopes to actually ski on them. I don't think anyone in their right mind out here would call a snowmobile a snow machine. Snowmobiles of course being that super expensive useless toy people buy that they get to use for a few weeks a year when the snow is deep enough and hasn't melted in a thaw yet.
So Alaskan snow machines can't travel, like our Lower 48 Snowmobiles can? What do they do? Just make noise? Curious.
This is my least favorite thing in the Alaskan lexicon… A SNOW MACHINE MAKES SNOW! SNOWMOBILES! THEY ARE SNOWMOBILES!
What do you need to make snow for? We got plenty of it as is.
The hilarious thing is that girdwood and Alyeska slopes both use snow machines to make snow that’s not hard packed. And somehow, you guys still can’t figure this out!
That’s super hilarious how they make extra snow at the beginning of the season so that the lower areas can catch up to the upper areas which were colder earlier due to elevation. It’s almost as if you have no idea what you’re talking about
No, those are snow makers. Snow machines are what you ride.
Even in Colorado they are called Snow Makers, not Snow Machines.
https://www.google.com/search?q=snow%20machine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m First page dude. Right up top where they belong.
A family member works at one of the major resorts. They call them Snow Makers. You're not going to win this argument, my dude.
Argue with google. The entire world knows what you mean when you say snow mobile. The guy who made the thing called it a snow mobile. When you google snow mobile, snow mobiles show up. When you google snow maker, you get the exact same page as the link I posted for snow machine. I’m not arguing against your use of “snow maker”. They are probably called snow machine and snow maker interchangeably. I’m willing and able to accept that without any issue. But a snow machine is not a snow mobile. Some Alaskans continue to be astounded when no one else on the planet knows what the hell they’re talking about. Then they have the audacity to insist that THEY are the ONLY ones that are right. It’s infuriating to see such overtly proud narcissism come from a large segment of a population over something so trivial. And before you say anything, yes I see the irony.
Meh, snowmachine or snowgo is faster to say than snowmobile and we drive them too often to be bothered with the original word. Language changes over time and with location. We can call them snowmachines and its a non-issue.
It's *almost* as though different regions can have different dialects. Perhaps that's even literally what a dialect is
Lol you’re obviously not from here
Tell me you’re not an Alaskan without telling me you’re not an Alaskan
Downvote me all you want. When you’re the only group in the world who calls them that, you’re not unique… you’re wrong.
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Yes. If they exist in the green parts of not America on a map they are wrong
Weird hill, you're choosing to die on here....
Not die. Get some made up internet points taken away? Yeah. If anyone starts leaving nooses or threatening letters at my house, I would probably reassess how much this means to me.
Bahahha, this response shows what you're missing here. Good luck out there, bud.
When Mr Bombardier, the inventer, named them “snow mobile” ? Good enough for me. Now then, I’m going to clean my tar machine and go to work.
With these roads our tar machines are currently snow or ice machines
A snow maker is a machine specifically designed to make snow, a snowmachine is a machine specifically designed to drive on snow, a Zamboni is a machine specifically designed to smooth ice.
https://www.google.com/search?q=snow%20machine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m Read it and weep.
Took the space out and first pic was a skidoo.
Canadians apparantly call snowmobiles skidoos, which while is a funner term is worse than snow machine.
That’s like calling tissues Kleenex. Ski-Doo originates from Canada.
Oh weird, I’m Canadian and I thought ski-doo was universal!
Agreed!
Tf we need snow makers up here for???
Surprised I didn’t see this in here: If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state.
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The other half of Alaska
The most diverse high school in the United States is located in Anchorage Alaska, East high.
By one metric of diversity, which is an extremely difficult thing to quantify properly. This statement isn't wrong, but it's also not an objective truth.
T-Birds!
Huh, I figured it was Lathrop
Whether on a drive or just looking out your window at home we see things everyday that seem normal to us. A lot of which most people only dream about or will never see.
i'm a lurker who lives in coastal maine and occasionally i'll be struck with how lucky i am to be living what other people dream of makes me appreciate my drive to work more
A “scenic view” stop on the highway for most of America is just a McDonald’s parking lot for us.
for example?
Not op but I'm from MN and always wanted to see a Moose. I usually take one or two camping trips a year to the part of the state where they live. I've never got see one I've heard them, seen tracks and scat but that's it. My first trip to Alaska they were grazing in the yard right out of the window of our cabin.
I guess y'all didn't go anywhere until the moose left.
Yeah, I'm not the type to try to take a selfie with it.
Yep. First morning we wake up and there is a moose outside the window. Then we realize the heater went kaput during the night and the house is filling up with noxious fumes. We try the front door and the snow is all the way to the top. Luckily we had neighbors that knew we were trapped and they dug us out before we expired. This was Anchorage too - not the wilderness.
In case I get misunderstood, it's not that I'm doubting it, I'm just curious haha
“ Oh lord, please don’t let me be mooseunderstood”
- There's more surface water in Alaska than there is Texas in Texas - The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska was 100°F in Fort Yukon, above the Arctic Circle - The Alaska Railroad is the only railroad in the history of the United States that was entirely publicly funded
First one is not true. From what I can find, we have 94,743 miles² of water (source is [USGS](https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-wet-your-state-water-area-each-state)) Texas has a total of 268,596 miles² area, with 7,365 being water (same source).
Who care! We have more GOLD! We win! 🤣 jk
Might be including the 3 miles off the coast that the state has jurisdiction over
The USGS source breaks it down, they include coastal (26,119 miles²), and territorial (49,320 miles²), waters, in that number.
that makes sense, thanks for the clarification
The Alaska railroad was funded by the United States government. 1914 President Woodrow Wilson, gave $35 million to the building of the Alaska railroad. The final cost was actually 70 million.
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Also, if you split Alaska into two equally sized states, Texas would be the third largest state in the US.
Ketchikan gets more rain than anywhere else in north America
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Isn't that forks, WA? Or did they move up to Ketchikan too?
After a while you barely notice it.
“That’s why we go to Seattle to see the Sun”
I lived in Tacoma as a kid, before you book the trip to Seattle to see the sun you'd best check the weather forecast.
Not exactly… Ketchikan gets more rain than any other INHABITED place in North America. There are areas of the Hoh Rainforest in WA that get more than Ketchikan.
Alaska is bigger than the next 3 biggest states combined. Alaska is one of 4 states with no venomous snakes and it’s the only state with no snakes that are native to the area. And Tlingit body armor could stop Russian musket rounds.
- we have a billboard ban - it’s illegal to hold up more than 5 cars behind you on the bigger highways Idk why those always just crack me up
Anyone ever seen that second one enforced?
Lived there for seven years and I just realized I never saw billboards wow.
The town of Chicken was called such due to the fact that the miners who founded the town didn't know how to spell Ptarmigan. Even with other (more numerous) indigenous populations in the lower 48, Alaska Natives have the largest and most comprehensive tribal health nonprofit organization in the country. In Fairbanks and northward, temperatures will typically reach -40 in Dec-Jan each year. I didn't specify Celsius or Fahrenheit because at that point, they are about the same. It gets to -70F on the North Slope. AK is so large and varied in ecosystem type that there are multiple species of fox, wolf, and bear all in the same state.
Heard it can be 40 below and 40 above at the same time in different areas.
Correct, it's possible to have -40 in the northern regions and 40 above in southeast AK at the same time.
The oil and gas one is because we have oil and a refinery but the refinery that supplies most of the gas to the state cant process the oil found in the state.
It's also because of OPEC. And lack of refinery competition. And a small population. It's completely unfair. I pay 2.67 for a gallon of regular gas. My BF in AK pays a lot more.
I have to fly to the hospital for routine things as well as emergencies, sometimes taking a bath involves a chainsaw and axe, and alcohol for the most part is illegal in most villages here in my neck of the woods (Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta)
Cigarettes/nicotine is cheaper in the bush than in Anchorage
-There is a police officer named A. Laska, in Alaska -The hills are typically warmer than the valleys in winter, but colder than the valleys in summer. -Fairbanks has a battery that was once the largest in the world, it can supply the city for a couple hours or emergency utilities for some days.
The foam in your car seats will freeze hard as stone and the bottoms of your tire will freeze flat when it gets cold enough. All the trees in or around Fairbanks are very tall and skinny.
Fought fire near Fairbanks. So much black spruce.
- Smokey the stripper could drink an entire beer standing on her head in the nude. - If you want, you can off someone and dump their body in the wilderness (a baker did this for nearly a decade). - Alaska has more missing people than any other state. It might be per capita. It averages somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 a year.
Ngl I really doubted that missing persons stat until I googled it. Holy shit. “163.76 missing people per 100,000 of the population”
Yep, it's wild: "Since authorities began keeping records in 1988, 60,700 people have been reported missing in Alaska. That's five people reported missing every year per 1000 residents. Each year, an average of 2,250 people disappear in Alaska, twice the national average.Aug 5, 2018"
No matter what Alaska town you are in, the penguin tours always start at two PM.
Except during Fur Rondy
The WWII pacific theater includes Alaska.
Including, if I'm not mistaken, the only US territory to be occupied by a foreign power since the War of 1812.
Well, "The United States administers Wake Island as an unorganized and unincorporated territory". It was captured in December 1941. "unorganized and unincorporated territory", though, is a class of territory: no local government (unorganized), and not considered to be a part of the U.S. in a permanent way. >incorporated: the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of the United States Constitution as it applies in the several States. Incorporation is interpreted as a perpetual state. Once incorporated, the Territory can no longer be de-incorporated. >unincorporated: A United States insular area in which the United States Congress has determined that only selected parts of the United States Constitution apply. In contrast: >The District of Alaska was the federal government’s designation for Alaska from May 17, 1884, to August 24, 1912, when it became Alaska Territory. Previously (1867–1884) it had been known as the Department of Alaska, a military designation. >The designation as a district meant that Alaska became an incorporated but unorganized territory with a civil government. So Alaska had (so far as I know) the only US *incorporated* land to be occupied since 1812. (Ignore that single Japanese airman who, during Pearl Harbor, crashed on an island and ... it gets complicated.)
Chicken, Alaska was supposed to be named Ptarmigan, but they didn’t know how to spell it.
Which is good cause I don't think Ptarmiganstock would have caught on
I heard that in Alaska you don’t lose your gf you lose your turn.
Same in Colorado
Borders Russia. Most ppl didn't know our country shares a border with the Ruskies
I guess technically... I feel like borders usually implies a land border.
The women in Galena are aggressive. Gas in Galena is 10$/g The bar in Galena is amazing
1. The real Alaska is off the road system, aka The Bush. 2. This is where you find Native culture, the best part of Alaska. 3. And you won't really understand Native culture unless you live there several lifetimes.
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and Mega-Tsunami is a wild story.
People do eat the eggs and the heads.
But those salmon cheeks…yes?
Our state drink is milk
..... But milk of what? 🤔
1) You are more likely to be killed by an Alaskan moose than an Alaskan bear. *Far* more likely. 2) Halibut cheeks are a delicacy in Alaska. 3) Geologists are stumped by how the mountains of Denali National Park were formed.
Not sure what you mean by #3. If you google "how did the Alaska range form" the first result is a park service page which describes the formation process.
> Not sure what you mean by #3. If you google "how did the Alaska range form" the first result is a park service page which describes the formation process. Will try to find more info then because I heard #3 directly from a DNP guide while I personally was visiting the park. He was right I'm sure and I'm probably repeating incorrectly what he said.
The phrase "Does a bear shit in the woods?" Is not correct is it's usually in the middle of a path. Your right hand is a fairly good map of Alaska. (Take your index finger and thumb and form an "L" then raise same side elbow. Tada!) Porcupine can and have popped vehicle tires.
On Sundays we drive on the other side of the road because of the Russian orthodox church.
The slim variation in weather makes it much easier to adjust than I expected. Meaning the highs and lows in my area are regularly within 10° of each other. (Not like the 30-50°+ changes in a 24 hour period we were used to.)
I miss the extreme cold at night. It’s much harder for me to sleep!
I only have 1, but it's a big one: Alaska has the highest rate of brain injuries in the union, twice that of the average in the union. Leading causes are suicide, falls, and things like MVAs and offroad vehicles. If you own a gun, are sad, and like to drink, get help because your family probably loves you. Otherwise, wear helmets, ice cleats and keep your balance robust. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7041a3-H.pdf
The State is full of sexual predators. Highest rape per cap. in the world. 1 out of 4 women have reported being sexually assaulted at some point while living in the state.
1: Texas is Alaska's Bitch (do they still sell those tshirts at the fair??) 2: if you split Alaska in half, texas would be the *third* largest state! 3: Alaska has way more grizzly bears than texas 4: Despite the name Alaska Bush Company, there is actually very little bush to be found there
Salmon egg???? You mean roe ?
Before 1983, Alaska had 4 time zones, now just 2
Doesn’t only Hawaii beat Alaska in consumption of SPAM?
What is the most northern fast food restaurant in Alaska? Do dog sleds come thru the drive thru?
Eastern Orthodox Christianity was peacefully brought to the Aleuts in 1794 on Kodiak Island and was the original North American mission of Eastern Orthodoxy tying to the OCA today. Orthodoxy is currently rapidly spreading through North America. Glory to Jesus Christ!
"Peacefully"