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Mon 28 Feb 2005 7:40
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
2 comments
[Alaska]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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 For a guy who doesn’t like winter, John Reeves sure has a funny way of showing it.
How else do you explain the nearly 150-foot-tall, prehistoric-looking tower of ice that Reeves has grown—and continues to grow—next to the Steese Highway eight miles north of Fairbanks?
“I don’t really care for winter; I guess that’s why I do stuff like this,“ Reeves said. “You’ve got to act crazy to keep from going crazy.“
Mission accomplished.
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The tower has developed into one of Fairbanks’ top winter tourist attractions. The Alaskan Alpine Club’s Web page, which features photos, background and updates on the giant spire, receives almost 150,000 hits a day, said Buchanan.
Fairbanks residents, meanwhile, have been flocking to Fox to check out the tower, which sits only about 100 feet off the highway and can be spotted a few miles away on Goldstream Road or the Steese Highway, a white thumb sticking up among the green spruce trees as you descend a hill into Fox.» ‘Fox Icescraper’ Grows Along with Popularity
Some people juggle geese.
UPDATE: Others worry about things like atmospheric thinning as a result of billions of people pumping air into their tires (third letter, “Global warming” by Jim Webster). It’s fun to see the kind of humor that comes out up there in late winter—truly warped.
‘NOTHER UPDATE, March 15: Gravity happens.
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