So the weather decided not to cooperate and dropped to 40 below last week, man it was cold. I had planned to go out last Friday, but at -35 below decided to wait another day. Alan and I went out on Saturday and the temps weren’t to bad, maybe -15 below when started out, but dang it, it dropped to -25 below by time we headed back to the rigs.
We did get a good section tracked and GPS’d and I feel good about that. Draw back was that we only made it about 3/4 of the way across the Tanana from the Floodway Dyke. Hopefully I’ll get that sorted by this weekend and make the connection Paul and I ran yesterday (Monday) from the Salchaket/Tanana into the Flats.
As always, we both called in and registered with our Rec Permits to be on Military Lands and the recording said the area was opened to the public (no shoot at the range), imagine our surprise when we started to hear gun fire, oh yeah, that got my attention. We decided that it must be small arms and not be to concerned, yeah right, we’ll just ride around and explore some trail options and ignore the sounds of automatic gun fire aimed our way…
We’ll we rode and tracked until Paul’s gas gauge said it was time to head back. Below is a map of what we’ve gotten tracked so far. Hopefully I’ll be able to get the two connected tomorrow.
