love the pictures at night with the bright orange lights. Looks like you're having fun.

 

thanks! you guys may enjoy some pics from down town anchorage, i stayed at a hotel last weekend on the 14th floor. had a beautiful view of the city.

night(w/my phone)


morning

 

look at that big city! woo hoo!

 

washed the excursion yesterday. since its so nasty out i'm going to park it for a few days and get my moneys worth on the wash haha

you can actually see what color it is!





then today i put my 2wd hatch window lift struts on. man what a HUGE difference it made! it opens quickly and much higher! no more ducking so i dont hit my head.


before






after, big improvement

 

Al X, looking good there

 

I stayed at the Sheraton in downtown Anchorage a few years back (the U shaped parking lot looks familiar). I was there working the Coast Guard booth at the great alaska sportsman show, at night we'd head down to the "Polar Bar". Nice little dive bar, I met an Inuit gentleman who was walking around with a whale bone snow mask. I love that city, but I left my heart in Kodiak

 

i love anchorage


so yesterday i went out to wasilla and big lake. picked up some explorer parts then went out on the ice road of big lake, alaska. its getting pretty warm...40s during the day so i was not sure how long the ice would be safe. there was alot of standing water and very slushy so i was careful.

headed out of town she rolled 115,555 haha



this was somewhere in downtown wasilla wish it would have zoomed better but oh well. i love reflections



the explorer crap i bought.



wheres the dumpster?




careful! its a no wake zone! haha




some of the standing water




views from the lake



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caught this when i got back into town

 

Great pics AL X, nice scenery there

 

Nice pictures, driving on an ice road must be somethin else haha. What kind of head light bulbs do you have in there? they dont shine completely blue do they?

 

Nice Pics ALX! Have not seen much snow here this year

 

i'm so used to the ice roads it doesn't scare me much. the standing water this late in the season does make me a little worried haha but i saw alot of other people out there and some large trucks so i felt it was safe.

this was a few years ago with my old 2004 excursion. the girl freaking out was from Chicago and it was her first time ever on a ice road. also said to be her last haha

on the biglake ice road 1/2/10 - YouTube


i have 55w 8000K HIDs, they have a blue tint but not overly so in my opinion.

 

Because climbing into an 8000# Excursion parked on the ice makes so much more sense than just standing out there alone...

I think I could handle the ice road, in a rental! The slush part would make me a uneasy though. I take an ATV on the frozen lake down here, I actually rode it all the way around the lake once, following the tracks of all the snowmobiles. One time I broke through right in front of the house though, and that was not fun. There was thick ice underneath, but slush and a thinner layer of ice on top. Broke through the top without knowing of the second layer. No brown stains, but it was close!

 

i know that made no sense!

yes this time of year with it being above freezing in the day you find overflows much more. i normally dont like to go out there this late in the season for that reason. we did have a cold and very deep snowy winter which really helped produce a very thick ice layer. i checked with some locals before getting out to the lake and when i was there i saw some bob cats, dump trucks, a grader and plenty of SUVs and pickups so i felt very safe with it.

the larger standing water on the lesser driven plowed roads i would not cross, i backed up a long ways when i found one spot i did not like. i dont have full coverage at the moment so i cant loose my baby!

 

Great headlights AL X

 

actually the ice levels this year are allot thinner due to the insulating factors of the snow, did you happen to drive on the lake they found that girls body in this week?