Legal to tow this combination in Alaska
We will be in Alaska during September and meeting up with good friends who live there. One of our fun things is to hunt Ptarmigin and grouse. We use a powered canoe to cross some sloughs. For the...
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PA12DRVR wrote:
"Thanks. You're the second person I've heard refer to Los Anchorage. I haven't been to Alaska in 14 years - has it changed that much? Sorry if it has.
...... One place is Tangle Lakes, the other my friend has sworn me to secrecy. ......."
- Hindsight is always rose-colored: The Anchorage of the 60's (where I grew up) turned to Los Anchorage in the 70's (pipeline boom) and again later in the 90's (another indirect petroleum boom).....and never went back, all in my NSHO of course.
My Dad first went to Alaska in the 30's and worked for the ARC. Before WWII he was working the road reconstruction between Valdez and Fairbanks. After the war he worked on building the Sterling Hiway on the Kenai from Hinton's Lodge (now the Russian River Crossing) all the way to Homer. He always referred to Anchorage and Los Anchorage and that was back in the 50's and 60's.
I hadn't been back in almost 50 years - left for college and never returned until I retired. It has changed a lot, and not for the better in my opinion. Almost all the folks I grew up with say the same thing - Statehood and the oil boom ruined the Territory.
