Yes! This is Scott's gopro footage. I'm riding ahead of him on the 850

​@rebeccacharles9380 nice she's still goin

Yes.

This is in a "snow shadow" on the north side of the Alaska Range. Often there is little to no snow there. It's totally worth it for the adventure!

How much do riders pay to participate? Do the organizers help them fix the equipment? Or are they all taking part in a race to survive? And how much do the winners get paid for winning places?

I guess I have to give it another go next year. I can't believe I didn't go the last 600 feet 🤦‍♀️

Rebecca Charles It was better safe than sorry. Especially, when there’s the potential of rain. Going down the grass ramp would have sucked. I want to do again!

I wish I had more footage than just these 2 videos 🤷‍♀️ Time for mountain climbing videos until next winter 😁

850. Normally wouldn't go backwards, but he was wedged into the ice shelf

It's pretty much non existent for a reason 😁 this was the only footage I got before getting rid of the camera. Too much distraction 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I take that back. I have one more video uploaded here from riding after this rescue. Check it out!

@@rebeccacharles9380 I found it, great footage. I assumed that was what happened usually...no time to mess with the cameras.

Isn't that the truth... I got sucked off the trail not even a quarter mile up and the boys helped pull me out 🤷‍♀️

That's just that area. Do some research on mountain range snow shadows. This is the tallest range in north America.

We had some really crappy climate change winters in AK. Recently in the past 2 years we have had winters that are more similar to normal. Who knows how long the current trend will last? I hope it does but I don't have much confidence.

@@thatalaskaguy holding pretty well so far!

@@erickfish1400 it seems like Fairbanks is getting all of our snow. Right now this is the worst winter we’ve had since ‘95-‘96. We have around 2’ of snow on the ground in some places but the wind blew most of it away. The snow we do have has no base and is very thin in most areas. Complete garbage conditions. Even fatbiking is no fun with the constant wind and signal digit to below zero temps. We’ve had 4 good winters since 2010. Not a great record.

@@thatalaskaguy damn sorry man. Only January and quite a few folks are over it already. Can't imagine this being anyone's first winter anywhere in Alaska. I hope it improves for you, at least the wind could quit maybe.

That year was a 2015 Polaris Adventure. Moved on to an XCR in 2018. Reduced the number of pre race mods I had to do.

One of us. Not me that time 😉🤣

It is you!

That tree was bold to jump out like that!

I'm always in awe of the views. I spent 50 minutes out of the total climb just taking pictures and videos 😂 (per the analytics of my tracking app, Relive)

It's just about always like that.

thank you

Let me elaborate. The snowless area called "The Burn" is north of the very tall Alaska Range. Weather comes from the south and gets blocked by the tall mountains creating a "snow shadow" where very little snow falls. Hope this explains it!

Theres little bits of snow that the studs kick up into the heat exchanger, but honestly, these Polaris sleds handle the lack of snow very well and rarely see excessively high temps, even in the burn.