anyone in/know about alaska?

**satori** · 03-19-2007 12:11 PM

i'm going to alaska (around juneau) to snowboard and chill the beginning of this summer. i don't know much about it except some snowboard spots i've scouted and that weed is legal.

if anyone has been there and has suggestions to improve my trip i'd appreciate it. i'd also like to deflower some unridden hills while i'm there... we'll see what there is!

**EBasil** · 03-19-2007 12:16 PM

I've been there a few times, but never to snowboard and I don't think weed was legal at any point. Who knows, maybe it is!

How are you getting there? Flight direct? Are you old enough to legally drink? There's a brewery west of town with a killer, open tap hospitality room policy. My Dad and I had 6 pints of beer with those guys. Are you going anywhere else in AK, during your trip? It's a very pretty state with a lot to see if you like things outdoors and have brought your own wimminfolk.

**mangels** · 03-19-2007 12:20 PM

I lived 13 years in Alaska ... but not the Juneau area. If you get a little farther up north go to the Matanuska Valley. The main towns in the Valley are Wasilla and Palmer. You want to go to Hatcher Pass. It's 13 miles of continuous downhill in the Talkeetna mountains. Also of interest is the road to Lake Eklutna on the other side of the Valley (in the Chugach Mountains). I've never done the Eklutna road. I swapped e-mails with a guy that did though. He said it was really intense. I don't think it's quite as long as the Hatcher Pass road, but it has to be at least 10 miles. Also, the road up to the trailhead at Lazy Mountain just outside Palmer is krazy-ass STEEP, straight as an arrow, and prolly about a mile or maybe a little less. I never found the courage to bomb that "hill".

Here's the thread about my Hatcher Pass adventure a year or so ago:

http://www.silverfishlongboarding.co...ass#post367301

**satori** · 03-19-2007 12:41 PM

wow i'm even more excited now. thanks a LOT for the suggestions. 13 miles of dh- i am there. i will take pics/vid too. sounds like that specific hill isn't that fast though??

yes i'm 21 and will be enjoying some good new brews. i definitely like some beers better than others, but for me, i just need it to stay cold, which should be no problem!! weed is legal, at least to an extent- my aunt moved down there to open up a chiropractic clinic and she was pissed when she found out cause she has a little kid. whatever, i don't smoke much anyway.

can i get a link to mangle's gallery? the links in his old thread don't work.

i will pick your brains some more closer to trip time. i'm definitely the 'get off the beaten path' kinda guy- prob won't spend much time in the city and hope to get some grizz bear pics. hope also to have my ruger .357mag ready to not use

**EBasil** · 03-19-2007 12:47 PM

If you encounter a bear, that magnum will seem like a pea-shooter. Seriously.

If you're into the weed, then you have to visit the town of Tok, if only for the t-shirt. Ha ha!!! I have no idea how big or little it is these days, but that's a town on a crossroads of the Al-Can Highway.

**satori** · 03-19-2007 12:57 PM

lol hmm i'll have to see if anthony hopkins can help me widdle some spears b4 i go then.

seriously though i know that bears are nothing to take lightly.

link to mangles' gallery plz?

**mangels** · 03-22-2007 04:10 PM

Yeah, that link I put in my post was the link ... but the photos all go to some goofy page now. I dunno what happened.

The Hatcher Pass road is slower than I expected EXCEPT for one sphincter-shrinking long, steep, straight shot with an incredibly TIGHT hairpin curve at the bottom. I'm tellin' ya - you foot break and you will wear through the bottom of your shoe right up to your knee. It's best to keep the speed under control there. You will know the stretch when you come around the curve on the way up ...

**samhell** · 03-22-2007 04:26 PM

We have some friends who used to live in Alaska, and I can assure you, weed is not legal up there...
It's just heavily ignored unless you have a grow op in your house..
Don't get yourself into a stupid situation, the mountains up there can kill a man in a million ways..
Look out for Bears...
Smoke on the downlow...
A 44mag is the only handgun that can realistically kill a Grizzly, anything smaller would be chancy...
This is a link i saw a while ago.. Big puppy..
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp

**Crappysurfer** · 03-22-2007 05:08 PM

apparently rainskate is based in AK
i have a few friends in AK...they dont skate tho

**satori** · 03-22-2007 08:17 PM

samhell, if i want to die in alaska, that's my business

i was joking about the bears- i'm a well trained outdoorsman, been hunting since a kid, been backpacking since a kid, have gone through a couple survival classes.... etc etc.

AK is going to be sweetness! glad i posted here, i wasn't even planning on taking the roller boards till now.

**samhell** · 03-22-2007 08:20 PM

Don't go die in Alaska now.....

Have fun!

**ivebeencanceled** · 03-22-2007 08:56 PM

Next spring ill be going there for 5 months, ill be working at an isolated fishing lodge, about 200 miles away from any city.

Is weed really legal there??

**Brian Holden** · 03-22-2007 08:58 PM

ask Malakai, I he told me he used to live there and he dated a polar bear.

**mangels** · 03-23-2007 03:20 PM

A Cheechako (city boy) arrives in Alaska and approaches an old Sourdough. He asks, "What do I have to do to become a real Alaskan?

The Sourdough replies, "You have to kill a grizzly bear and make love to an Eskimo."

The Cheechako walks out of the bar, and is not seen again for days. Eventually he comes back. He's all ripped up and nearly dead. He approaches the Sourdough and asks, "OK. Now where's that Eskimo I hafta kill?"