anyone watch top gear for the trucks

[noJeepshere]

This show is entertainment, pure and simple. If you look at it as anything more than that, you'll disappointed.

At the beginning, when they took their more than 4 hour drive north of Healy, (which, btw, is only 2 hours drive [if you're slow]) they pretty much ran back and forth between Healy and Denali, which is only 11 miles away however many times. I've driven that stretch of road prolly close to 200 times in the past 2 years, so I know it very well. And the part with the high bridge is at Hurricane Gulch, which is actually about 70 miles SOUTH of Healy, the opposite direction of where they were headed.

The trip they "took," if you put it on a map of Alaska, covers over 300 miles of Alaskan wilderness, and mostly roadless wilderness at that. Some of us guys here are looking at doing a trip in that area this summer and covering not nearly that much distance. Plus, the Knik glacier at the end is accessible almost to the snout of it by a paved road, with a neat little lodge right near by.

With all that salt on the show, it was still good and I saved it on the dvr to watch again. Btw, the Smurf Chevy rules

 

[sledheadak]

a bunch of ****ing retards. way to trash on the trails and make everyone that offroads look like total asses.****ing idiots.

 

[owenst7]

This show is entertainment, pure and simple. If you look at it as anything more than that, you'll disappointed.

At the beginning, when they took their more than 4 hour drive north of Healy, (which, btw, is only 2 hours drive [if you're slow]) they pretty much ran back and forth between Healy and Denali, which is only 11 miles away however many times. I've driven that stretch of road prolly close to 200 times in the past 2 years, so I know it very well. And the part with the high bridge is at Hurricane Gulch, which is actually about 70 miles SOUTH of Healy, the opposite direction of where they were headed.

The trip they "took," if you put it on a map of Alaska, covers over 300 miles of Alaskan wilderness, and mostly roadless wilderness at that. Some of us guys here are looking at doing a trip in that area this summer and covering not nearly that much distance. Plus, the Knik glacier at the end is accessible almost to the snout of it by a paved road, with a neat little lodge right near by.

With all that salt on the show, it was still good and I saved it on the dvr to watch again. Btw, the Smurf Chevy rules

Lodge near knik glacier? The closest paved road to the moraine is 27 miles away...there are several hunting shacks with dirt or plywood floors, but definitely no lodges...

 

[DrkZide]

Find the other thread we have about this on here. The local says they could.

Is that the one about the Alaska trip?

 

[COCHEV]

looks like all three trucks got cages and harness's...but the Chevy guy apparently doesn't like being belted in at all.
Rene

I noticed that. No way did they each find $3000 rigs with nice custom roll cages. Must have been a liability requirement for the hosts of the show...

Was it me or, did all the rigs get newer mud tires too? didn't the ford sport boggers?

 

[DrkZide]

Well I would assume for $3000 they wouldn't come with new tires, as well all know those are pricey anyway.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Is that the one about the Alaska trip?

Nope. There's two Top Gear Alaska truck threads here. Owens posted in the other one and said his mom used to do the same drive to the Glacier in her DD.

I noticed that. No way did they each find $3000 rigs with nice custom roll cages. Must have been a liability requirement for the hosts of the show...

Was it me or, did all the rigs get newer mud tires too? didn't the ford sport boggers?

The Chevy and Dodge were sporting the same tires the whole time. Looked like Dunlop Mud Rovers (the old style too) on the Chevy and I think Nitto Muds on the Dodge.

The cages had to be liability mandated. They knew perfectly well these guys were going to flog the trucks unmercifully. Better to put them in and have nothing happen than have one of your show's hosts break his neck or get crushed in a roll over.

 

[noJeepshere]

Lodge near knik glacier? The closest paved road to the moraine is 27 miles away...there are several hunting shacks with dirt or plywood floors, but definitely no lodges...

That's what my experience and google earth showed anyway, unless we're talking about different glaciers. I'm thinking the one not far from Palmer.

 

[owenst7]

That's what my experience and google earth showed anyway, unless we're talking about different glaciers. I'm thinking the one not far from Palmer.

Mouth of knik river valley is about 15 minutes south of Palmer on the Glenn. There's definitely no developed roads and certainly no "lodges". Natives own the land from about 7 miles in and there's no development outside of Butte's immediate area. Maude road is a flooded mining trail and is only a couple miles long.

Only other glacier you might be thinking of is the Matanuska along the Glenn, but that's around mm 98 north of Palmer.

It's remote, but in terms of Alaska, that's considered beginner terrain. At least what they showed you is. If you try to make it up the mountains along Friday or metal creek, that's a different story.

What lodge and/or road did google earth show you in the vicinity of 61° 24.7013 N 148° 34.1167 W ?