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chronicling drivers’ adventures and mishaps on the frozen roads of Alaska and Canada, ran for 11 seasons, concluding in 2017.
No small part of the shows’ success was Lisa Kelly, who still lives in Wasilla, Alaska, where she keeps a cat, a pig and five horses. One of a very few “IRT” female truckers, she was part of Seasons 3–5 and 7–11. Kelly’s popularity led to opportunities for trucking industry sponsorships, including appearances at major trucking shows.
Overdrive’s June 2013 cover story profiled Kelly, who was returning for the show’s seventh season after taking a year off.Kelly drives the state’s Dalton Highway, a.k.a. the Haul Road, between Fairbanks and the oil fields around Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s northern shore. She declined to name the fleet she drives for, but in a recent video interview with
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One relic of Coldfoot s history is the tree-trunk pole, visible in the background. After truckers finished months of hammering together scrap wood from pipeline insulation crates to form the main building, in celebration they raised the pole, and engraved their names for future truckers and guests to see, says the Coldfoot website. To this day, the center pole does double duty: as a communications center, crowded with notes for truckers, miners and other folk in the area. Max Heine
This piece, published July 23, 2009, has been updated for Overdrive s 2021 60th anniversary series and speaks to two aspects of trucking history. One is the role truckers played in developing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline coming out of the oil processing complex at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska s northern shore. The other is the more recent Ice Road Truckers TV series, which set some of its seasons on the snow-covered Dalton Highway between Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay, which runs through Coldfoot
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Charred trees from the 2020 Woodward fire along Limantour Road in Point Reyes National Seashore. Crews are clearing “hazard trees,” which could fall across trails.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Last year the Woodward Fire burned 4,929 acres of Point Reyes National Seashore, bordered roughly by Limantour Road and Sky Trail stretching south past the Bear Valley Trail and Wildcat Camp. The footprint of the fire remains closed to all access.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Charred trees from the 2020 Woodward fire along Limantour Road in Point Reyes National Seashore. All but one campground, Sky Camp, have reopened in the park and are getting booked 100% by reservation.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less