A day in Nome, Alaska | Remote Alaska
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Nome is a very special town in Alaska. It is not a kind of Alaska that the cruisers and road trippers know. It is not a place where you can enjoy your 2-hour Amazon Prime delivery, oh no. This town is detached not only from the lower 48 states, but also from the state mainland.
Despite being away from major tourist traffic today, its history is in the very heart of the state thanks to the glory of the Gold Rush days. It’s easy to think of Alaska as having several distinct areas, each with its own character, and Nome is among a few places that have defined the past and the future for the Last Frontier. It is a place where one is immersed in Alaska's remoteness, its spirit of pioneers, those who pushed the boundaries for the next ones to come and settle. I heard the locals referring to the mainland as 'the real world' and when I asked where real world starts, the answer was 'it probably starts in Anchorage'. Meaning Nome is way beyond.
Hope you'll enjoy my little video postcard from Nome. Please ask questions, I'll be happy to help with what I know. Thanks!
I saw this city while looking at the map and my research led me to this video. Thank you for showing me the city I was curious about. Love from Turkey
Same here
I did the same, but I took a step further: this April I visited the city. (I'm from Italy)
I'm the same way. I really want to visit border countries. (Greetings from Indonesia)
@@andrepino2729 congratulations to you
Well, that's some of it. Everyone has to be someplace. The people make it a good place.Thanks for the view.
Golden words: people make it a good place. So well said! Nome is a home to the best of the best. Thanks for watching!
John Edward Pennington Jr raped a child here in WA State and sexually assaulted a public records officer in Snohomish County WA. He was fired. He is also linked to missing kids in 5 states
@@GoldBarReporter What does this have to do with Nome? Although it is newsworthy and I don't want to diminish your post....if true, why does it appear here?
I've had the honor to visit the city this april. Amazing experience: the sea was still frozen and the people were so nice and friendly ❤
I just got back from Nome. The ocean is beautiful the town however is a very depressed area. It is super expensive which is expected because it's in the middle of nowhere there are very few restaurants I don't think there was one restaurant that serves breakfast. I'm glad I went to experience it.
Thanks for the comment! If I may ask, what makes you think the town is a depressed area? My view is that the life is going on a slightly different level over there so it may seem slow but the locals I had a check to speak with were nice people and not depressed.
Love the Nome people. I worked at Munz Northern Airlines cleaning & drying each plane prior to flight. Thank You for the video. Good memories there!
Munz Northern Airlines! I had to google what it is. Sounds like your job with them was quite a bit ago. One can only imagine what service was provided on flights back in the day.
Such a beautiful place 😮
I think youre confused. Look at it. Its a muddy and disgusting with nothing to look at
About Nome no one has posted a video as special and complete as yours on RUclips. I have learned a lot about the city with the questions you have been asked and the brilliant answers you have given (here at comments). Thank you very much from Spain (eu).
Thank you for the kind words, this is very good to read. Glad you enjoyed it. Gracias back to Spain!
🙏 You welcome 👍
Thanks for the video. My dad spent two years there during World War 2. The Army Air Corps base there was instrumental in shuttling American aircraft to the Russians during the war. It was called the lend lease program and it was a fairly large operation. I still have lots of photos of what it looked like in the 1940’s. Nice to get a feel for what it must have been like. Always wanted to go.
Hi Mike! Sorry it took me long to answer, I was thinking about your comment since you wrote it. Thank you for sharing the story. I am well aware of the Lend Lease program, this is one of the greatest examples how USA and Russia could work together for the world's benefit. There's a monument for Lend Lease you can find in downtown Fairbanks. I am interested to hear more about your photo archive of Nome in the 40s. Are they paper pictures or digital?
Nice place
Hope to visit someday. Howdy to all on the Bering Sea shore!
Thanks for posting this, so interesting! I thought it was much bigger.
Nome is fairly large in size but I agree, it may feel small, that may be because of a many one story houses. Heating up large homes in winter is not practical, too :) Thank you for the comment.
One day. Yup, one day I'll get there. I'm not sure if it will pan out or not but I'd love to try 100 days of mining the beach. Transportation and lodging could cost a small fortune unfortunately.
I saw a few folks mining the beach but took me a while to understand what was going on.
maybe you will find a small fortune
@@tested123 I've pulled a few grams off lake superior since this post. And I hear there's a gram for every 5 gallons of material in Nome. If all goes well I'll be leaving for Nome in a year or 2. As soon as I get my small fortune...$10,000. But if I can get 15 grams a day at $1,000 and be there for 100 days I don't see why I can't make a small fortune. Hell, if it's more than I make at Walmart ($26,000) a year I'll be happy. There I get 100 days off a year and work 265. In Nome it's the opposite if I work 100
I spend some time in Bethel, King Salmon, and Deadhorse and it's crazy how different those 3 are. I'm super curious to go check out the other Bush Metropolises to see how they compare.
Superb film.
Thank you, glad you liked it
Very interesting. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
My bucket list here
Great town to have on a bucket list! Conveniently far away but also conveniently accessible.
Thanks for sharing the images.
My pleasure
Серега, не поспрашивал там , как часто инопланетяне к ним залетают? Судя по фильму "четвертый вид"
Nice city 👍🏻
One day maybe.. coming from Germany.. i will visit this place :)
Someone must have knocked a zero off of that Chicago milage sign...lol!
It’s a pretty much place that is beautiful, also im in nome rn
Say hi to Nome from me. It is one of the alaskan towns that I liked the most
@ yup,
That’s where Balto and Jenna live.
I want to visit this place and hopefully explore the rest of the Seaward Peninsula
i love the show Bering sea gold. it was cool to see a tour of the town. expensive eh?
Not terribly expensive. As with everything, it really depends on what you want to do over there. Car rental is fairly expensive. Food is not so much since they have Safeway in town.
Reminds me of a cold version of Cedar Key FL.
Wow ! From Nome to 台北 is 4312 miles (3:34 in this video)
Wonder how many visitors from Taipei get to Nome
Thanks alot for the video. Love that people cathes these places for the rest of us to enjoy. I seen some camps there, with lodgning, that costs an arma and a leg. Do you know if its possible to camp there? Does people do that? Or any other affordable housing for lets say a month of looking for gold during the summer time. Would appriciate any answer :)
Chris, thanks for the nice words! Glad you liked it. There are vacant houses in Nome but no good board to see the options. Try two places: "Nome Nugget", they are a good local newspaper with lots of local connections, tell them you need to connect to people putting houses for rent; or call the city hall with the same question. Also try a local Facebook group, one should exist. Good luck with looking for gold! Hope you'll get rich :)
@ Thanks alot for the response! I see these videos of people camping out on the beash. U know if that is doable?
Es arido el lugar pensé que era una zona boscosa
Queria elegirlo como lugar para ir a vivir y empezar de nuevo
Pero al ver fotos y videos me di cuenta que no me encuentro en este lugar
Seguiré investigando por otras zonas
Muy lindo video
There are more forestal places in Alaska, check out Kodiak or Ketchikan. Nome is not an easy place to start new life at.
where is Balto?❤
I'm 6153 away from there 😊
Trying to move there now
Where from?
That must be a little odd knowing that you only live a couple hours boat ride from Siberia...😂
Can you actually see bits of mainland Russia out in the ocean 😅?
Haha no you cannot! Don't believe her!
Would this be during the winter season?
This was in the month of May
is there a road going to northpole?
There may be one, depending on your type of vehicle ;)
Is it super expensive to live there? My brother just moved there.
It is not super expensive. Logistics are surely not the same as in the lower 48 states, but you can get stuff delivered and in the local Albertsons grocery foods are not crazy expensive, some things are the same price as down here in Texas.
2:50 can you or someone tell me the approximate location of this plane in Nome?
The exact location is the Nome City Field Airport - do not confuse with the commercial Nome Airport. Nome City Field Airport is a small parking spot and private plane strip close to Nome town center, the plane you see is parked right there.
Thank you @
Go there and find out, and believe only what your eyes tell you.
@@MatthewMcKee-iu5fb I've found it.
Balto grew up here
I get it, ok, I get it.......
Beautiful place of country ALASKA are more frozen here, what u.s.a..
balto brought me here
Wait? Where are the ufo's?
I guess in New Mexico :)))))
somewhere…lurking
hey man, do u know why people is disappearing in the night, FBI is continuously investigating the area and there are many U.F.O. cases?
Specifically in Nome or elsewhere?
in Nome of course. most of people say that the disappearing cases are related to alcoholism plague: drunk people die frozen alone in the snow.. many people say about UFOs@
@ in nome
Coisas horríveis aconteceram aí, assim diz o filme contato de 4 grau
It is just a movie :)
The fourth kind
Right, however that film wasn't even shot in Nome
@are u sure?
@@godron2202 Yes, you can read on Wikipedia. The story is about Nome but the production sites are elsewhere
Aren't there a lot of Alien Abductions here?
If only they added a g. GNOME AND YOuVe BEEN GNOMED
I think I can see my house in nome Alaska
I think I see me on the camera
A truly desolate place. Great for mind control andprayers
Aliens watain for u.
Do aliens prefer remote places? Why can't they be waiting in NYC for example?
Im just curious, why does anyone want to live here? If the average salary is the same as everywhere else but the cost of kiving is double-quadruple. Also the weather is super cold. If you dony orepare properly before going somewhere and some accident or something haopens and if your alone you can die easily. I just cant see what draws people to live in places like this.
You probably mean something entirely different with your question. Say, if you're migrating from overseas and can pick any place in the US, why would you want to come and settle in Nome, AK? Well, maybe you don't. But if you are originally from these lands, your question "why does anyone want to live here?" is basically the same as "why would anyone want to live at home?". People have been living here for thousands of years. And there are newcomers as well, from both overseas and the lower 48 states. The Great North is an enigmatic place and it attracts the strong hearted people.
Then again, we would probably wonder what on earth makes you want to live where ever the heck you are living...
@ Very good points. Why do people think that cold and snow are horrible? Winter is my favourite season.
Looks like a real dump.
I respect your opinion but let me disagree. In remote Alaska people have a different sense of practicality driven by limited availability of material goods. What looks like a run down house if put in US lower 48 states, here has a different spin.
Thank you for the thoughtful & insightful reply in response to the “dump” comment. Nome is my hometown and I lived there 24 years before moving to the lower 48. You are so correct. With such short summers, harsh winters, and limited availability of building materials and the expense to fly or barge them up, making things pretty isn’t a huge priority for many. And painting your house is rather futile when Bering Sea storms are so rough on things year round. That said, while homes look rough on the outside, many are modern and beautiful inside. Can’t (and shouldn’t!) judge a book by its cover. I love my hometown and the people who live there. We’re a tough breed and value the remote way of life. ❤️
@@MizzyPhotoGirl sweden....finland.....norway.....iceland.....all look quaint and well kept
Nome is a dump.
Period.
No civic pride. Alcohol drives and cripples the community....native peoples living like the native peoples they are....they aint finnish....they aint swedish.....they aint norwegion
They are native peoples....native to the area of the world in which they reside and they see nothing wrong with their hometown looking like a dump
@@MizzyPhotoGirlHi, I appreciate and understand your comment…defending your hometown. After all, it is the people that make a place special. Just curious what you did for fun growing up. Are there restaurants? Coffee shops? Bowling alleys? Or did people generally gather at each other’s homes for meals? Or playing cards? I’d just be fascinated to learn more. I grew up in a small town, but not this small. I live in a small city now with lots of bars, cafes, restaurants, music venues, etc. it is just fascinating to be reminded that people exist in such small, remote places..
I consider nome my home town I grew up there for seven years as a child but then moved in 2015 to Anchorage where I lived now I’m not 16 years old and really want to visit!