The concept of our trip began as a simple idea. Plan a snowmachine trip that's longer and more adventurous than anything we have done before, and video the highs and lows along the way. This evolved into a 1856 mile trip crossing the state of Alaska, which is expected to span 28 days. During which we will likely encounter temperatures above freezing and below -30, deep untouched snow, areas with n
o snow at all, thick brush and forests, dangerous glacier and river crossings, icy overflow, steep mountain passes, and rock hard windblown plains stretching for miles. And that is only the beginning.. One of the goals of the original trip idea is to record video footage of the trip progress, the adventure, scenery, history, and highs and lows along the way. The idea is NOT to produce another "reality" show like many shown today, with exaggerated drama, clever editing, and out of context scenarios. Instead, we'd like to produce a high quality adventure series of grand adventure in the last frontier. Our team will do our own filming, no hidden cameraman, just the group of us, usually miles from another human being. What we show will be real, not hyped up or acted out scenes. We will have enough challenges along the way, there is no need to invent additional ones. Along the way, we will look at and travel some of the historical routes accessing the Interior and the North Slope of Alaska. We will travel through remote villages and visit with those that live there. We will examine the winter landscape, and reference glacial and shrubbery changes over the last 30 years in the mountain ranges that we cross. In Northern Alaska, we will pass thru herds of hundreds if not thousands of caribou, visit ancient hunting and whaling sites, and visit an abondoned military RADAR outpost from the Cold War on the edge of the Beaufort Sea.
