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> From: Gary Shook <gary.shook@mci.com>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Can I ride?
> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 6:51 PM
> close... but wrong order...they started with the biggest Cats they could
> get, with a MONSTER chain between them, and just powered through the
forest,
> knocking trees down as they went... the aftermath was cleaned up mostly
by
> hand, and explosives were used when rock was in the way...
>
> (all this info from my grandfather, who lived in Alaska from 1950's to
1980
> (when he passed on))
when i was in alaska in may a lady on our trip... her father worked on the
crews that built the hiway and she had family fotos in their album of it.
there is a book being written on it and the men that built it...
of course... had they had dakotas back then... probably could have finished
it earlier... the hiway was an engineering feat for the time and a very
difficult time for the workers and support crews... ie; cook camps, ice,
freezing weather... small bird size mosquitos... floods... terrain...
etc....tents don't keep out -50 degrees very well... and deep mud is hard
to deal with when all you want is a cup o' jo and a hot shower...
makes a cam change seem like a walk in the park...
jam'n
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