The Hat's Fairbanks, AK Trip

This is a long overdue post. John and Jean brought the Hat to visit their son in Fairbanks, AK. The hat went to the Native American exhibit at the museum at the Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF). It made symbolic freinds with a totum.


The hat then went to the International Ice Carving contest where it posed in front of a Chinese team's winning carving of the Year of the Boar. The wind chill here at 10:30 pm is about 30 below.


The hat also travelled north of Fairbanks about 95 miles into the Sawtooth mountains and, after an 11 mile trek, came to Tolovana Hot Springs. The temperature when the hat took a dip was about 5 below with a 10 MPH wind.


The hat's final adventure was to go and see the festival, Chatanika Days at Chatanika, AK, about 20 miles north of Fairbanks.


The highlight of the event was the Outhouse Race. Here we have the hat posed in front of the event sign and also in front of an ice carving of that famous ediface.