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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #325 on: January 17, 2008, 08:05:40 PM »
I knew it!
go me!

I was re watching some of TAR12 today and realized how hot Rachel is lol

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #326 on: January 17, 2008, 08:08:24 PM »
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #327 on: January 17, 2008, 08:11:03 PM »
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #328 on: January 17, 2008, 08:12:42 PM »
looks like one to me puddin!

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #329 on: January 17, 2008, 08:17:32 PM »
Puddin

With the extended days in Alaska, even in such a southern area as Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula you are going to have long days with a lot of Sun.  WIth nearly 17 and a half hours of sunlight.

As for Homer, while its fairly picturesque as far as fishing towns go.  Its the furthest both in mileage and time to drive from Anchorage.

As a native of Kenai, I would love to see them go further on the Peninsula, but I don't see it.  As for Seward, it is just a very ugly town, so I would hope they don't go there.

Staying north of Anchorage or near cook inlet really has some beautiful natural scenery.  Even driving down as far as Skilak lake is quite beautiful at this time of the year.

Though with the large influx of people due to tourism, and the fishing industry can at times make car travel slow going as most of the roads fluctuate between one and two lanes.


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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #330 on: January 17, 2008, 08:21:23 PM »
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With the extended days in Alaska, even in such a southern area as Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula you are going to have long days with a lot of Sun.  WIth nearly 17 and a half hours of sunlight.

As for Homer, while its fairly picturesque as far as fishing towns go.  Its the furthest both in mileage and time to drive from Anchorage.

As a native of Kenai, I would love to see them go further on the Peninsula, but I don't see it.  As for Seward, it is just a very ugly town, so I would hope they don't go there.

Staying north of Anchorage or near cook inlet really has some beautiful natural scenery.  Even driving down as far as Skilak lake is quite beautiful at this time of the year.

Though with the large influx of people due to tourism, and the fishing industry can at times make car travel slow going as most of the roads fluctuate between one and two lanes.
See this is why we need your insight mswood, it might as well be Timbuktu, for me anyway. What I'm looking for is where fishing ports are popular *sigh* and have been up and down Cook inlet  :duno:

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #331 on: January 17, 2008, 08:38:54 PM »
I think I've figured this out. The final task is to put the donkey and other items seen on the race and identify which country on the globe they're from.

We don't have an official speed bump. The teams are asked in which country the speed bumps and U-turns were used.

I think the picture of Christina standing at the U-turn is watching Ron trying to figure out where he saw it.
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #332 on: January 17, 2008, 08:43:04 PM »
Good Job Puddin!


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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #333 on: January 17, 2008, 08:57:39 PM »
Puddin

With the extended days in Alaska, even in such a southern area as Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula you are going to have long days with a lot of Sun.  WIth nearly 17 and a half hours of sunlight.

As for Homer, while its fairly picturesque as far as fishing towns go.  Its the furthest both in mileage and time to drive from Anchorage.

As a native of Kenai, I would love to see them go further on the Peninsula, but I don't see it.  As for Seward, it is just a very ugly town, so I would hope they don't go there.

Staying north of Anchorage or near cook inlet really has some beautiful natural scenery.  Even driving down as far as Skilak lake is quite beautiful at this time of the year.

Though with the large influx of people due to tourism, and the fishing industry can at times make car travel slow going as most of the roads fluctuate between one and two lanes.
See this is why we need your insight mswood, it might as well be Timbuktu, for me anyway. What I'm looking for is where fishing ports are popular *sigh* and have been up and down Cook inlet  :duno:
Because they are all over   :lol3: :lol3:  From canneries, and fish farms, to fishing docks of small, to very large commercial areas.  Hell they could even be at a University or college fishing area. 

I can eliminate Kenai, north Kenai or Soldotna from the lists of places to look.  It doesn't seem to fit the area or beach type that they have.

I am less familiar with Seward (because Seward sucks, I mean really.  Alaska's beautiful but its towns can be quite ugly, but Seward is really ugly).  There is Whittier, though teams would have to travel by train or plane to get their.  But the train is e close to Alyeska.  I mean really close, you just drive til you reach the portage Glacier turnoff and the train depot is right there.  Its a very small town, and thus less chance of being noticed.  And its got a lot of boating.  Hell there are just so many small paces with lots of boats that teams could travel too.  I wouldn't have a clue without more footage.  I mean hell I could tell you everywhere they were for the sequestered teams right off the footage, because those are so specific.



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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #334 on: January 17, 2008, 09:01:19 PM »
These look like they may be in the same area.  The fence poles look similar.  There is also two taxi's in the background.  One directly behind them and one off to the far right.  It's hard to tell if there is another one nearby or not.  However, where are they?  It almost looks like a junkyard.









What is Rachel carrying?  Is it part of this task?




Is Nick standing at a Podium?  Or is that fabric on the wall behind him?





Also, I have to say this is one elaborate set up for a Roadblock if there are indeed individual stations for each country they visited or maybe there are individual stations for each racer where they have their own area to put things in order.    I'd say the latter.  



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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #335 on: January 17, 2008, 09:03:15 PM »
it looks like he might be carrying a box?
god I'm excited for sunday night -- it's been SO long since we had a finale where we didn't have an idea who would win.

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #336 on: January 17, 2008, 09:06:31 PM »
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However, where are they?
Until something better comes along, I'll stick with 39-S.
As far as the U-turn box goes, maybe instead of something to do it's just another piece of the puzzle, like the donkey.

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #337 on: January 17, 2008, 09:12:35 PM »
Stick with?

I missed that, where is it!
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #338 on: January 17, 2008, 09:15:28 PM »
That looks good to me! :tup:

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #339 on: January 17, 2008, 09:19:58 PM »
Here. The south-facing shorelines have mud flats that are too large. I haven't found any matching photo yet, but if it's not the Cook Inlet Tug & Barge Pier (39-S), then it's something similar.

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #340 on: January 17, 2008, 09:39:42 PM »
One thing we haven't discussed:

We know that after the ice climb teams are flown by helicopter off the glacier.

Where?

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #341 on: January 17, 2008, 09:47:41 PM »
One thing we haven't discussed:

We know that after the ice climb teams are flown by helicopter off the glacier.

Where?
Thanks to the info from Colby & peach Alpine Air Alaska provides the helicopters, they probably take them back to the Glacier Jets Alaska, docks?
http://www.alpineairalaska.com/
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« Reply #342 on: January 17, 2008, 10:30:50 PM »
It really does look like a junkyard ..




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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #343 on: January 17, 2008, 10:31:47 PM »
could be puttin that could be the site of the detour with crabs?

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #344 on: January 17, 2008, 10:45:02 PM »
could be puttin that could be the site of the detour with crabs?
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Crab shacks! lol


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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #345 on: January 17, 2008, 10:45:42 PM »
lmfao wtf is puttin  :groan: :lol3:

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #346 on: January 17, 2008, 10:47:18 PM »
I can't wait for this episode on Sunday. I've been swamped in so much hmwk this week that The Amazing Race is really my escape. Ha.

I wonder what they could do with the donkey, but that task with all the miscellaneous (sp?) things looks cool!

Can't wait. Ron and Chris FTW.

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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #347 on: January 17, 2008, 10:57:22 PM »
Puddin

With the extended days in Alaska, even in such a southern area as Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula you are going to have long days with a lot of Sun.  WIth nearly 17 and a half hours of sunlight.

As for Homer, while its fairly picturesque as far as fishing towns go.  Its the furthest both in mileage and time to drive from Anchorage.

As a native of Kenai, I would love to see them go further on the Peninsula, but I don't see it.  As for Seward, it is just a very ugly town, so I would hope they don't go there.



Staying north of Anchorage or near cook inlet really has some beautiful natural scenery.  Even driving down as far as Skilak lake is quite beautiful at this time of the year.

Though with the large influx of people due to tourism, and the fishing industry can at times make car travel slow going as most of the roads fluctuate between one and two lanes.

mswood, since you were a native of the area, you will appreciate these land distances:

Anchorage to Seward 140 miles
Anchorage to Kenai 160 miles
Anchorage to Homer 228 miles

None of these 3 places will be involved in AR12 as a result due to excessive distance. The water scenes will have to be with boats north of Anchorage, out of Anchorage, or out of Whittier.
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #348 on: January 17, 2008, 11:16:26 PM »
I almost lost my mind when I read Whittier, just b/c it's a city in Southern California. It's hard to comprehend that there cities of the same name in different states.
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Re: EP 11: The Final Push
« Reply #349 on: January 17, 2008, 11:21:37 PM »
Then you find the fish & crab places apskip, I gave it a shot so good luck to you   :jam: