The houses are on pilings to resist permafrost forces not for flooding. The ground will heave up and down over the year at the surface due to the frost cycle, so the houses are on piles that bear below the frost level allowing the surface to heave up and down and not affect the floor of the building.
Hi from Wollongong, Australia. Thank you so much for this video. It brought back wonderful memories for me of my day trip to Barrow in 2005. It had been a lifelong dream of mine to visit this town. I finally got to do it at the end of a tour to Canada and Alaska. The tour finished in Fairbanks so I took the opportunity to make this dream a reality and flew to Barrow. It was early June and the sea ice still hadn't broken up. Barrow didn't disappoint me. Thanks once again.
Really love seeing my parents home town. I have been there as a kid and teenager. Sure miss being there seeing family. Need to plan a trip to go visit. 🥰😍
I’m usually not big on drone footage, to many RUclipsrs get a drone and then it seems 50% of the posts are drone footage, but that was nice and interesting.
I really can't tolerate extreme hot or cold weather anymore. I'd still love to visit Barrow. It's on my bucket list but unlikely I'd make there so really enjoyed the video! Thank you for sharing!
Barrow is where 30 Days of Night was set, isn't it? I love those creepy vampires and the town has such a great spooky-ish atmosphere. Thank you for taking us with you!
@@TruckHouseLife Gotcha. By the way your paragliding off the mountain with skis on and landing perfectly on the other side of that creek/river was awesome. Flying in air=pure joy.
I cannot imagine how anyone wants to live there, but great video. Isolation is one thing, but that is a whole different kind of isolation...and the whale skulls, unreal. SO huge...just love whales, they are so majestic.
Drone footage was quite beautiful. Haunting almost. I also dug the shots from the flight in. Barrow in December must be icyAF and kinda oppressive - those buildings and streets must look decidedly different then. SHeesh. Thanks for bringing us along. That market and its prices are most impressive - made me wonder what the wages are for workers there. Would be difficult to make ends meet I imagine.
If I needed a license (YOU would be the coolest instructor thats for sure) ..ps HOpe everyone passed~!!! As for driving your Truckhouse on those narly roads you take us on.....I may need some lessons thats for sure....lol Also, did some homework and looked up your good friend who was lost kayaking .....(my condolences) Mr Engle and you had some amazing adventures whitewater kayaking.....New Horizons An All Alaskan whitewater film.....LOVED IT!! OMG....it was soooo good!!! Cheers, Timmie and look forward to your next adventure!!! ps do you have any more suggestion for films for kayaking....would be cool to hear your thoughts ....Cheers, and yes I saw this before but who cares.....it got me to do some research!!! Love ya Man!!!
Appreciate the kind words:) There's a movie that just came out called The River Runner, great story and a few folks I used to paddle with are in there. Was on netflix a few months ago.
@@TruckHouseLife Thanks Tim....eee I have kayaked on the madawaska river (rouge river) here in Ottawa....years ago friends did river rafting with Owl outfitters....so I took a weekend course white water and have some epic photos.....but eventually bought a sea kayak for the St.Lawrence river here....but always enjoy river runs!!! Thanks for the movie tip...always appreciated .....big hugs!! lol
The pilings under the buildings aren't for flooding. It is to keep the structure from sinking into thawed permafrost. The gap is a heat sink, essentially. Even the large buildings are on pilings, all over the north slope.
correction there are 2 places where you get can get your car trucks fix, SALS auto and A&D auto, And for the Seniors they can get their car truck fix for free at the NSB shop
My friend lives in Alaska, he's lived there his whole life he is now 66 years old. He said he's never seen the lakes so deeply frozen and frozen so long into the summer.... Very odd.
Oh my !!!!!! The food prices , I’d starve at those prices , a person would have to make 100 bucks an hour to afford all that or just live off the land if possible , tide 44 bucks God bless them
" downtown " barrow in infact the second oldest part of town, as first is " Nuvuk " ( Noo-vook ) where lots of the old timers were before barrow was a town.
Oil/Natural Gas industries are really big in Northern Alaska and they pay really well. Plus the fishing industry, scientific research funding and Gov subsidies help to keep the town going.
Hey Timmy! What's going on? I've already seen this video..a couple of months ago... I know that you have "New Content " . I believe you said that you were doing Another Long Term Trip..within the states. What's going on with that? Where are you Starting/Finishing? Thanks!😊✌🏕🏞
@@TruckHouseLife well thats good i need it next year haha, i just need to get my class a and my cousin has a job but idk about driving a semi in alaska lol but really i want to get my 6pack or 20+ captain license so i can fish for free 🤷🏻♂️ but thats only for like 3 months so i need something else…. and you gonna make it to hammertown in 6 months?
There is in fact still a DMV in Barrow Alaska , but they just can’t seem to preform their own road testing anymore, because of COVID…why? That’s pathetically sad.
So, I’m investigating the possibility of taking a job in the north slope… here’s my question - If groceries were that much, how much was the sweet and sour chicken? What’s the price of booze? 😱
My biggest question is why do folks live there? I'm not familiar with Alaska, how can folks afford to even live there with food so high? I feel silly complaining about our food prices even during this recession here in Georgia.
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Don't know if I could live there, but the isolation is appealing. Tim you have an interesting life. Love your adventures.
I loved it that was awesome I never get to see such first-person views of places like that. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your just as gifted as your dad, in making things...cool!!!
The houses are on pilings to resist permafrost forces not for flooding. The ground will heave up and down over the year at the surface due to the frost cycle, so the houses are on piles that bear below the frost level allowing the surface to heave up and down and not affect the floor of the building.
Another cool video, thanks!
Barrow Alaska can be crossed off my list, don't want to go there, but I enjoyed your trip!
Thanks Timmie.I enjoyed this video ..
Hi from Wollongong, Australia. Thank you so much for this video. It brought back wonderful memories for me of my day trip to Barrow in 2005. It had been a lifelong dream of mine to visit this town. I finally got to do it at the end of a tour to Canada and
Alaska. The tour finished in Fairbanks so I took the opportunity to make this dream a reality and flew to Barrow. It was early June and the sea ice still hadn't broken up. Barrow didn't disappoint me. Thanks once again.
Awesome thanks Tim, from Janine living the van life in Tasmania Australia
Awesome haha!
I kept expecting your flights to be cancelled due to the icy fog, but I must have been mixing it up with your other Barrow Driving Exam video!
Thanks for taking us along.....
Was different but I liked it ! Very interesting to see
Timmy you're videos are freedom and thank you..
Any time!
Beautiful view from the plane , I love flying , an once you landed an got to destination the views still beautiful ❤ tha channel brother
Bro! I frikken love your channel!! Especially when you go to Barrow! I have a very strange desire to move their for a year!
Really love seeing my parents home town. I have been there as a kid and teenager. Sure miss being there seeing family. Need to plan a trip to go visit. 🥰😍
I’m usually not big on drone footage, to many RUclipsrs get a drone and then it seems 50% of the posts are drone footage, but that was nice and interesting.
Thanks Jim:)
Great job, Timmy!
So awesome!! My son just visited Tuktoyaktuk! 👍🇨🇦😎
awesome
Very cool, thanks Timmy!
I love these Barrow videos, your grocery shopping trips make me feel better about inflation in my own state!
Interesting to see. Wouldn't want to live there though.
I really can't tolerate extreme hot or cold weather anymore. I'd still love to visit Barrow. It's on my bucket list but unlikely I'd make there so really enjoyed the video! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome video Timmy. Doggone it... I sure wouldn’t want to live there. Cheers from beautiful Florida🍻
Barrow is where 30 Days of Night was set, isn't it? I love those creepy vampires and the town has such a great spooky-ish atmosphere. Thank you for taking us with you!
Barrow is now referred to as Utquiavik, and has been for some time.
Yes, it’s the proper Inuit name for the town
It will always be Barrow to me.
@@CalGarian-qn9pwThey’ll skin you alive with that bs
@@RoCK3rAD I care not, It's Barrow.
I think I saw this same video with you a few months ago, the difference being you got stuck there for a couple days.
Nope different video, same place though;)
@@TruckHouseLife Gotcha. By the way your paragliding off the mountain with skis on and landing perfectly on the other side of that creek/river was awesome. Flying in air=pure joy.
I am always curious if there is a tree somewhere in the world that could survive up there
I cannot imagine how anyone wants to live there, but great video. Isolation is one thing, but that is a whole different kind of isolation...and the whale skulls, unreal. SO huge...just love whales, they are so majestic.
That camper is top tier 😘 love it
At least you didnt get fogged in like in the other Barrow video you did!
Yup!
Interesting video. Thank you for sharing. The prices in that grocery store 😳 !
Drone footage was quite beautiful. Haunting almost. I also dug the shots from the flight in. Barrow in December must be icyAF and kinda oppressive - those buildings and streets must look decidedly different then. SHeesh. Thanks for bringing us along. That market and its prices are most impressive - made me wonder what the wages are for workers there. Would be difficult to make ends meet I imagine.
It's an interesting place for sure.
P.s those grocery prices ...maybe be coming to a store nearer to us...AS WELL, OMG!!!
Yeah the prices are going up.
If I needed a license (YOU would be the coolest instructor thats for sure) ..ps HOpe everyone passed~!!! As for driving your Truckhouse on those narly roads you take us on.....I may need some lessons thats for sure....lol Also, did some homework and looked up your good friend who was lost kayaking .....(my condolences) Mr Engle and you had some amazing adventures whitewater kayaking.....New Horizons An All Alaskan whitewater film.....LOVED IT!! OMG....it was soooo good!!! Cheers, Timmie and look forward to your next adventure!!! ps do you have any more suggestion for films for kayaking....would be cool to hear your thoughts ....Cheers, and yes I saw this before but who cares.....it got me to do some research!!! Love ya Man!!!
Appreciate the kind words:) There's a movie that just came out called The River Runner, great story and a few folks I used to paddle with are in there. Was on netflix a few months ago.
@@TruckHouseLife Thanks Tim....eee I have kayaked on the madawaska river (rouge river) here in Ottawa....years ago friends did river rafting with Owl outfitters....so I took a weekend course white water and have some epic photos.....but eventually bought a sea kayak for the St.Lawrence river here....but always enjoy river runs!!! Thanks for the movie tip...always appreciated .....big hugs!! lol
Wonderful Alaska. I gotta get up there, if just to see the Northern Lites. Well and fish....
No grass, no trees ?? And
Very very expensive
Ooh wao
Thanks for sharing your adventure 🤗
The pilings under the buildings aren't for flooding. It is to keep the structure from sinking into thawed permafrost. The gap is a heat sink, essentially. Even the large buildings are on pilings, all over the north slope.
I have the strangest desire to move to Barrow.
Didn't you take us along last time you went up there? How ever long ago that was. Still a really neat place minus the snow in June...geez
Yup sure did!
Thanks for the really great video I feel like I've been there myself now!
Thanks for the journey. I got to visit the top of the world!
awesome!
Glad you got to enjoy what everyday life in Barrow (Utqiagvik as it’s called now) looks like. Not sure if I can handle it myself.
Thanks for helping me get my license!
Of course, maybe see ya on the road!
Thumb up Timmy... Cheers...
Good stuff....
correction there are 2 places where you get can get your car trucks fix, SALS auto and A&D auto, And for the Seniors they can get their car truck fix for free at the NSB shop
Right on, good to know!
Thank you
No joke ! It’s exspensive up there .
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“30 Days of Night” brought me here.
My fav horror movie ever made!
My friend lives in Alaska, he's lived there his whole life he is now 66 years old. He said he's never seen the lakes so deeply frozen and frozen so long into the summer.... Very odd.
Global cooling is real with all the volcanoes going off
I watched another yt family and the dad's been to barrows Alaska.
hope to see ya out ther one day friend. keep an eye out for a rig, kinda like yours. just 18 feet long, and on an e450 flatbed
Have I seen this video before? Deja Vu!
Different one;)
Outstanding video love seeing barrow in june..how much was the sweet/sour chicken dinner?? It looked extra good..
Super good!
Great video❤
Thank you!!
Damn Alaska ain’t no joke the prices are just stupid ridiculous
Oh my !!!!!! The food prices , I’d starve at those prices , a person would have to make 100 bucks an hour to afford all that or just live off the land if possible , tide 44 bucks God bless them
I live in Barrow Alaska 😁
Right on!
Got an extra room
Sure it’s $18, but it’s Dave’s Killer Bread ! Farrrr oout ! How much is Adam’s PB ?
🤙🍻
Well atleast you didn't have to worry about vampires with 24hr sunshine.
Man I love that movie haha.
Yay!
That would take some eating adjustment to live there. I drink a gallon of milk a day usually not anymore if I lived there.LOL
" downtown " barrow in infact the second oldest part of town, as first is " Nuvuk " ( Noo-vook ) where lots of the old timers were before barrow was a town.
this video was dope
Thanks!
Nice
I’m live in Barrow if next time be back here again please hopefully see you
😳😳😳😳 Omg the prices for groceries 😢
This may be a dumb question, but do you need a driver's license to drive the four-wheeler on a public Street? Barrows looks barren yet beautiful.
nope haha
So I guess the logical question that I haven’t seen address yet how can people afford to pay for things in that town? It’s just really interesting.
Oil/Natural Gas industries are really big in Northern Alaska and they pay really well. Plus the fishing industry, scientific research funding and Gov subsidies help to keep the town going.
That was the junior high school.
Right on!
So, how many drivers did you road test, and what was the pass/fail ratio? I just can't see you failing anybody--you seem too nice.
Can't tell exactly, but some people definitely don't make it/aren't ready.
Gotta be a miserable place to live lol and I love Alaska
only for new comers lol
I live in Barrow Lol
It's just a different lifestyle, lots of folks that live there love it;)
@@arlenea2599 i live here too I'm looking for love
Must be nice to be on a flight that's not packed.
most expensive grocery store on top of the world
How much was the sweet and sour chicken?
Sweet and sour chicken, 60dollars i bet 😊
That's pretty much how I expected the northern most city to look. No Egg Roll? How un-American.
Awesome video!!! What month did you go there? How many days did you stay there? I'm planning to go there this summer.
April, just a few days to work
They changed the name of the town to Utqiagvik
Barrow is rough... rougher than Bethel. And there are polar bears there. Polar bears are man-eaters.
Hey Timmy! What's going on?
I've already seen this video..a couple of months ago... I know that you have "New Content " .
I believe you said that you were doing Another Long Term Trip..within the states.
What's going on with that?
Where are you Starting/Finishing?
Thanks!😊✌🏕🏞
Hey there! Nope that was a different video, same town though;) Road trip is coming up, leave in less than 2 weeks!
@@TruckHouseLife My Apologies dear!😉 Cool, Cant wait to see your New Journey!
hey timmy yall hiring?? lol i want to move up next spring…
Haha not at the moment
@@TruckHouseLife well thats good i need it next year haha, i just need to get my class a and my cousin has a job but idk about driving a semi in alaska lol but really i want to get my 6pack or 20+ captain license so i can fish for free 🤷🏻♂️ but thats only for like 3 months so i need something else…. and you gonna make it to hammertown in 6 months?
Speaking of horror….when are you going to take us to see the Brucknee in Whittier?
Hmmmmmm
(Sp) Bruckner.
First!
There is in fact still a DMV in Barrow Alaska , but they just can’t seem to preform their own road testing anymore, because of COVID…why? That’s pathetically sad.
Yup they still haven't started testing.
Staffing issues is my guess.
What is your intro song
So, I’m investigating the possibility of taking a job in the north slope… here’s my question - If groceries were that much, how much was the sweet and sour chicken? What’s the price of booze? 😱
$18
Did you take the job? I've been given a similar opportunity
@@ZedsOrKayles I didn’t. I took a job in north NM. Still cold. Ha!
Barrow is a “damp” town. You can’t buy alcohol there. But you can bring it in from Anchorage if you travel there.
No trees.
Vacation video cause I know this is an old video and we seen you all week on the road in ?
All my videos are typically 2 to 3 weeks behind, takes a lot of time to edit;)
My biggest question is why do folks live there? I'm not familiar with Alaska, how can folks afford to even live there with food so high? I feel silly complaining about our food prices even during this recession here in Georgia.
Just a different way of life.
How warm was it in Anchorage?
About 70F
White bears up there in Barrow... yikes!!
Sure are!
Racist pigs
Why does this guy and so many others pronounce ARCTIC as Artic?
Good thing this time they did not cancel your flight home...🐳
Dang how does folks pay that for some groceries ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
Pretty crazy eh?
What do they do for a living up there?
Oil
Lots of oil industry.
How do the locals afford to shop @ that grocery w/ those HIGH ASS PRICES? 😮
How much was the sweet and sour chicken
$22
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What place is that @ 0:22 ?
Potash Road/Shafer 4x4 trail in Moab, Utah