Alaskans to get $878 in yearly oil wealth payout

[abner137 48]

Where I live atm you can't get a Big Mac and a gallon of milk goes for around $10 and a loaf of bread goes for $5+. No natural gas so you heat your home with fuel oil and/or fire wood and fuel oil goes for $6.72 a gallon atm. Internet, TV and phone runs at $250 a month...that's for 128K speed with 2.5GB of upload & download. It's a lot cheaper on the road system though...like WAY cheaper.

I know about Alaska....it was a joke....

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Internet, TV and phone runs at $250 a month...that's for 128K speed with 2.5GB of upload & download.

How do you watch porn at those speeds?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

How do you watch porn at those speeds?

Watch porn? I'm lucky if I can log into my gmail after the kids get out of school doing to the fact there isn't enough bandwidth and Iv'e yet to come close to getting the 128K speed I pay for. Usually I have to login to my gmail in HTML mode. But in three weeks or maybe even less we get our new net via those government funded towers they put up last summer and winter. Rural broadband. I get 4M speed with 12 gigs of bandwidth (monthly) for $83.99 a month. I'l be pimpin then.

Edited September 19, 2012 by Bad_Daddy

[*Snowdrop* 603]

It's a fact that the weather up here totally sucks in the winter months. On a good note we have relatively cheap direct flights to Hawaii from Anchorage.

I've had some of the most amazing skiing ever in Alaska. I love the resort at Girdwood. The Alyeska resort is gorgeous. If I could afford to spend every winter there I would do it in a heartbeat. Great heliskiing too.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I've had some of the most amazing skiing ever in Alaska. I love the resort at Girdwood. The Alyeska resort is gorgeous. If I could afford to spend every winter there I would do it in a heartbeat. Great heliskiing too.

Do you resent sunlight?

[*Snowdrop* 603]

Do you resent sunlight?

With good piste lighting you can ski at night now - as long as I could spend 6-8 hours a day on the slopes then I don't really mind. I guess it depends where you are in the state as to how much day light you get?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I've had some of the most amazing skiing ever in Alaska. I love the resort at Girdwood. The Alyeska resort is gorgeous. If I could afford to spend every winter there I would do it in a heartbeat. Great heliskiing too.

Alyeska has really changed big time since back in the day. I can remember when it got it's first ski lift...it used to be rope tow only. Now it's gotten all yuppie'd out. The locals usually hit Hatcher Pass now. It's free, you can use a snow machine (snow mobile) for a rope tow and there's no rules. On the down side there's no groomed slopes, lots of tree's to dodge, and it's everyone for themselves. If you go head first into a tree that's on you and good luck waiting to get medivac'd out by a helicopter without paying for it through the nose later on. But it's all locals for the most part and our version of a lodge is a bunch of us sitting in lawn chairs or on our tailgates next to a bon fire with lots of cheap beer and a few jugs of booze and someone with their truck stereo cranked up. Hot dogs are an extra.

What a lot of people don't know is that Alaska has put out more Winter Olympic medalist per capita then any other state. From Tommy Moe to Hillary Lindh, etc...

[*Snowdrop* 603]

Alyeska has really changed big time since back in the day. I can remember when it got it's first ski lift...it used to be rope tow only. Now it's gotten all yuppie'd out. The locals usually hit Hatcher Pass now. It's free, you can use a snow machine (snow mobile) for a rope tow and there's no rules. On the down side there's no groomed slopes, lots of tree's to dodge, and it's everyone for themselves. If you go head first into a tree that's on you and good luck waiting to get medivac'd out by a helicopter without paying for it through the nose later on. But it's all locals for the most part and our version of a lodge is a bunch of us sitting in lawn chairs or on our tailgates next to a bon fire with lots of cheap beer and a few jugs of booze and someone with their truck stereo cranked up. Hot dogs are an extra.

What a lot of people don't know is that Alaska has put out more Winter Olympic medalist per capita then any other state. From Tommy Moe to Hillary Lindh, etc...

I'm not surprised about the Olympic medalists - it's really hardcore. I went with my best friend for the first time in 2004 and we were not prepared for how tough the conditions can be. I lost track of her on the mountain one day and spent the next 2 hours skiing down in tears trying to work out how I'd tell her parents that I'd let her die on the mountain. (she was fine - I found her about 2 hours later in a coffee shop having a hot chocolate not even concerned about where I was)

I have to confess I do like the yuppie-ness of the resort - the hottub and pool are so lovely after a day of skiing. But the tailgate apres-ski also sounds pretty cool. Off to google Hatcher Pass...

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I'm not surprised about the Olympic medalists - it's really hardcore. I went with my best friend for the first time in 2004 and we were not prepared for how tough the conditions can be. I lost track of her on the mountain one day and spent the next 2 hours skiing down in tears trying to work out how I'd tell her parents that I'd let her die on the mountain. (she was fine - I found her about 2 hours later in a coffee shop having a hot chocolate not even concerned about where I was)

I have to confess I do like the yuppie-ness of the resort - the hottub and pool are so lovely after a day of skiing. But the tailgate apres-ski also sounds pretty cool. Off to google Hatcher Pass...

The key to Alyeska is to keep your edges razor sharp...and I mean knife sharp and don't let them dull out. Sharpen them again for the next day. Reason being is the steep incline and usually that mountain is ice due to the wind off the water. It's possibly the steepest incline of any public ski resort. They say if you can ski Alyeska you can ski anywhere. In the spring time for two weeks out of the year they open up the slope next to it..."Max's..something or other. All powder due to no skier's on it.

Hatcher's Pass is north of Anchorage between Willow and Palmer.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

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That might cover my expenses for thermal underwear, too damn cold for me personally!

But Ariel Tweto is soooo hot