#north to alaska

[teedeekay]

Today in 2000 I got to see John Linnell and the Statesmen open for They Might Be Giants at New York City's Bowery Ballroom. One of the States Songs performed was a cover of Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska". Also, turtleneck 🙌

#john linnell #state songs #they might be giants #north to alaska #johnny horton

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North to Alaska Henry Hathaway. 1960

Town Point Mugu, CA 93042, USA See in map

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#henry hathaway #north to alaska #john wayne #ernie kovacs #california #point mugu #movie #cinema #western #film #location #google maps #street view #1960

[hag-o-hags]

good sunset

#north to alaska

[cinemajunkie70]

Happy Birthday in the afterlife to John Wayne!

#john wayne #westerns #the searchers #red River #the quiet man #rio bravo #the shootist #the horse soldiers #the cowboys #north to Alaska #stagecoach #the longest day #McQ #hondo #the sons of Katie elder #true grit #el dorado #the man who shot liberty valance

[mudwerks]

(via North to Alaska • Theme Song • Johnny Horton (1960)

Why the video exists? no idea, but the audio is decent.

#youtube #Johnny Horton #North to Alaska #music #vintage #1960 #film

[sea-salted-wolverine]

So there are some perks to living in a tourist destination. There are a lot of detractors mostly that you cannot shoot the tourists because you rely on them for your income but you have a semi captive audience with no context for any of the bullshit you spew. You can tell these people anything and they will believe you, the trusted friendly local. Now this is a very much Spider-Man situation where Great Power begets Great Audacity and even worse Responsibility.

My buddy goes on a run and when hes done there is a bar near a creek. So he wades into the creek because the day is hot and the water is cold.

Tourists ask what hes up to, with his running stuff he didn't want wet piled on the shore and him very obviously cooling off in the water. He says he's fishing.

But now here is why I am telling you this story. The universe occasionally aligns in such a way that we get to really really fuck with people and their perception of said universe. The opportunities do not come often and when they come you must seize the day. This is what my buddy did.

So this Creek runs through town and as a result of the highway and neighborhoods and culverts and roads it does not have a great salmon run. It's a short Creek the headwaters are only a few miles from the ocean it never had a great salmon run to begin with. But there are salmon.

One such fish brushes past my buddy's leg. Immediately he knees the fish like he is juggling a soccer ball and pops it out of the water, then slaps it out of the air on to the shore.

This is dumb luck. He could not do this again if he spent years training. Noodling (catching fish with your hands) is a thing that is legal to do with salmon but it is so much harder than literally every other way to catch salmon, including grabbing them with a garbage can. What he just managed is the kind of thing that should make you want to grab the fish and swing it around your head like a stripper with her panties off.

But,

He has an audience.

This is the opportunity offered by the universe.

He plays it cool.

He puts on dead pan straight face on and wades up to shore to grab his fish and nod to the tourists. Someone asks something and he assures them this is the standard way to get a quick dinner here. The tour guide has caught up with his group. He looks at my buddy and his fish and the general lack of fishing accoutrement. Without missing a beat, the guide backs up every ounce of bullshit out of my buddys mouth because if there is one true fraternity it is locals bullshitting stupid tourists.

#from the far north #fishing #tourists #alaska #salmon

[mammalianmammals]

Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), in white winter coat, family Leporidae, Alaska

photograph by Loren Merrill

#hare #lepus #leporidae #lagomorph #mammal #animals #nature #alaska #north america

[introvertedswimmer]

Raven from 2022

#original photographers #nature #nature photography #beautiful #walking in nature #bird photography #birdblr #birding #birds of north america #bird #birds #birdwatching #bird art #birbs #raven #haines alaska #alaska #blackbird #rocks #beautiful photos #beautiful nature #beauty #majestic #photographer #my photos #photography #female photographers #nature photo art #original photography on tumblr #photographers on tumblr

[typhlonectes]

#travel #alaska #north america #USA #maps #memes #driving #car trips #geography

[herpsandbirds]

Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula), scratches an itch, family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Alaska

photograph by Lisa Hupp/USFWS

#hawk owl #owl #sturnia #strigidae #strigiformes #bird #ornithology #alaska #north america #animals #nature

[folkfashion]

Alutiiq dancers, Alaska, by Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers

#alutiiq #alaska #america #north america #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Deadhorse, Alaska

Taken June 2023

#deadhorse #dalton highway #arctic gothic #north slope #brown bears #eastern yellow wagtail #alaska #signs #my photos #my places #rlwtstcwtsv #oil fields #k

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North to Alaska Henry Hathaway. 1960

Cabin Hot Creek, Hot Creek Hatchery Rd, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546, USA See in map

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#henry hathaway #north to alaska #john wayne #capucine #cabin #western #mill #hot creek #united states #california #river #mammoth lakes #movie #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #1960

[hag-o-hags]

I bought 3 oz of qiviut which is musk ox yarn and we are not going to acknowledge how much it cost

but it

is

beautiful.

The brown is natural, and the gold is actually 20% silk but the lustre on it is INCREDIBLE. It's so pretty and soft.

Thanks, goils, you're absolute dolls.

#ki-vi-ute btw #musks ox are very cute and lovely #knitting #north to alaska

[snototter]

A crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) sits cliffside on St Paul Island, Alaska, USA

by Isaac Sanchez

#crested auklet #auks #seabirds #birds #aethia cristatella #aethia #alcidae #Charadriiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: alaska #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

[dailymothanon]

Omg... Little miss Palmer and her beloved girlfriend North Pole 🐶 I just couldn't get them out of my head... they both work so hard to keep the magic and fun in children's hearts!!! Love these two so much...

lil bonus blob babies them!!

#i really needa design lower 48 cities tbh #wttt #welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #ben brainard #wttt fan art #wttt headcanons #wttt fanart #wttsh #wttt alaska #wttsh fanart #wttsh alaska #wttt palmer #wttt north pole #wttsh palmer #wttsh north pole