[AlaskanEos]

I just bought mine, and am in Alaska.

I havent seen any up here before, and I know the dealer only has 2 on the lot. But I wanted to see if anyone else up here has an Eos?

 

[alaskaeos]

Hey, betcha aren't checking back on this thread anymore, and nothing like a person's first post to resurrect a post long since buried 2 years ago...

But, hey any Alaska owners out there. Wife and I drove one this weekend and loved it, but harsh weather conditions seem a real issue after doing some reading. How these cars holding up at -50F up North, or the freeze thaw cycle in Anchorage?

 

[silvershadow]

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But, hey any Alaska owners out there. Wife and I drove one this weekend and loved it, but harsh weather conditions seem a real issue after doing some reading. How these cars holding up at -50F up North, or the freeze thaw cycle in Anchorage?

We have a member from Finland who has posted a lot of his experiences in weather conditions which would be similar to what you experience in Anchorage.

Just do a search for posts by the member known as McEos.

The following thread is an example:

http://www.vweosclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3309

Having access to a heated garage appears to be a necessity if you want to put the roof down in sub-zero conditions .

P.S. Have lots of great memories from a trip to Wasilla nearly 10 years ago when my daughter spent a summer vacation as a counsellor for a Girl Scout camp north of the town just off the Iditarod Trail. We hired a RV in Anchorage and toured far and wide after the camp closed for the summer. Highly recommend this to anyone wanting a holiday they will remember for a lifetime.

 

[alaskaeos]

Thanks for the link! I am getting some conflicting info on how these guys do in bad weather. One interesting thing I have found is that the UK posts seem to point to bad, while the USA or Northern Europe posts seem to indicate it is fine. Makes me wonder why the difference in opinions.

I was just through Wasilla this past weekend. I know just where you are talking about! We live up North in Cantwell by the entrance to Denali National Park. Did you come up our way?

 

[silvershadow]

Thanks for the link! I am getting some conflicting info on how these guys do in bad weather. One interesting thing I have found is that the UK posts seem to point to bad, while the USA or Northern Europe posts seem to indicate it is fine. Makes me wonder why the difference in opinions.

I was just through Wasilla this past weekend. I know just where you are talking about! We live up North in Cantwell by the entrance to Denali National Park. Did you come up our way?

The reason for the difference in opinions is probably due to the fact that those in the harshest climates accept things as they are and don't complain. Those of us living in more temperate climates where extreme weather conditions are rare and more noticeable as a consequence are less tolerant of these extremes .

Do I know Cantwell? Most certainly do as we spent several nights there in the RV park whilst visiting Denali National Park on our way to Fairbanks. The awe and majesty of my first sight of Denali is still vivid today. I felt a strong spiritual feel pull from the mountain that is difficult to explain and similar to ones I have felt at some of our Aboriginal cultural sites.

 

[Stroh02]

I realize this is an old post, but it brings back memories to me as well.

My sister and her family took the ALCAN in 1952, and are still there, along with most of her descendants. They had a car wash in Wasilla.

I spent a fun-filled year in 1957-1958 at a radar station about 50 miles from Fairbanks. You probably passed it on your way to/from Fairbanks. Went back up there several years ago. The AC&W site, which supported about 250 AF types, was now supported by about 10 personnel. Everything is now done via satellite.

I took the train to see them in December of 1957. It was -50 degrees when we left the railroad siding.

 

[silvershadow]

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I spent a fun-filled year in 1957-1958 at a radar station about 50 miles from Fairbanks. You probably passed it on your way to/from Fairbanks. Went back up there several years ago. The AC&W site, which supported about 250 AF types, was now supported by about 10 personnel. Everything is now done via satellite.

I took the train to see them in December of 1957. It was -50 degrees when we left the railroad siding.

As an aside, I really enjoyed my Alaskan visit which was in August just before the end of the salmon run and after the mosquito season. Mention of the radar station has bought back memories of my first US visit when I did my coast-to-coast, border-to-border trip in December 1974/January 1975. We had been caught in a blizzard between Calgary and Moose Jaw in Canada and had promised to be in Milwaukee to spend Xmas with some long-time American friends [this friendship started with our parents in the dark days of WW2 through an American soldier repatriated to Australia after being wounded in a friendly fire incident during the first landing by an advanced party of American troops at Pongani in New Guinea in October 1942 and has been continued by my generation - a B25 bomber pilot had not been told of the landing and bombed then strafed the landing party killing the renowned US war correspondent Byron Darnton and Adam Bruce Fahnestock an American explorer who had been commissioned by President Roosevelt to survey the Pacific region for safe shipping passages prior to Pearl Harbour. There is an untold story here as to why Roosevelt saw the need at a time when America was neutral for this survey which would later be invaluable when the US entered the war with Japan. It is my understanding Fahnestock's expedition reports are held by the Library of Congress].

We [ex-wife and myself] were doing a non-stop drive on Xmas Eve from Moose Jaw to Milwaukee and whilst travelling from Winnipeg down to Minneapolis/St Paul overnight, we heard reports on the car radio from NORAD about an unidentified flying object travelling from the North Pole towards the USA however it did not pose a threat as it appeared to be a sleigh drawn by reindeer. This was to reassure children that Santa was on his way - I was very impressed with the way this was done over a period of several hours. We did make Milwaukee late on Xmas Day after 23 hours and 1100 miles of continuous driving only stopping for meal breaks and refuelling the 1966 Mustang hard top we bought in San Francisco and sold on the last day of our visit before flying home [I still regret selling this car instead of shipping it back to Australia for restoration].

Re the train trip and -50deg winters, being a steam train enthusiast of long-standing, visiting the small Alaskan Railroad's steam snowplough museum on the track between Seward and Anchorage was an imperative. The sight and sounds of this plough working to clear the track would have been awesome.