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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #375 on: July 02, 2013, 09:17:51 AM »
WELCOME TO TAR 23 FINALE DAY!


If we are fortunate, we could be getting our first airport sightings
within an hour or so with the main action occuring later today.

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So stay alert, watch for tweets and PRAY for sunshine!!



Location info to follow once the racers are secure.
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #376 on: July 02, 2013, 09:19:54 AM »
Reminder: LIVE SIGHTINGS ONLY!! ALL comments and SPEC go the Discussion thread!
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #377 on: July 02, 2013, 03:12:45 PM »
SO __________ had apparently used up their quota of Tweets and/or ran out of coffee. :groan:

But stay tuned and hope FINALE CITY is more on the ball!

Coming up fast!!  :wohoo:
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #378 on: July 02, 2013, 03:45:21 PM »
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Just saw some amazing race people. Wtf
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #379 on: July 02, 2013, 03:53:06 PM »
call me wil. ‏@TheKillerWilson 49s

Just saw some amazing race people. Wtf

Apparently he is in Juneau!

Here is a flight that just landed from Seattle
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #380 on: July 02, 2013, 03:56:13 PM »
Yes, I had confirmation. Juneau.

call me wil. ‏@TheKillerWilson 4min

@strainosaleij juneau AK brah
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #381 on: July 02, 2013, 04:11:51 PM »
Finally!! JUNEAU IS CONFIRMED!!


Coming up??  :lol:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tkkL7BG-SPU" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/tkkL7BG-SPU</a>
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #382 on: July 02, 2013, 04:17:31 PM »
Teams were on board these flights:

Tokyo to Seattle (sorry Seattle, your tweets *** this time!) :funny:

And Chateau has the Seattle >JUN correct.
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #383 on: July 02, 2013, 04:18:22 PM »

FWIW, Juneau Webcams   ;)

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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #384 on: July 02, 2013, 04:19:20 PM »
Heather McAnear ‏@heathercmc 43s

My friend @klittell25 just saw what we think were the final 3 teams for the Amazing Race dashing thru the AK airport

pic.twitter.com/bJe3mkqMmu

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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #385 on: July 02, 2013, 04:19:47 PM »
Heather McAnear ‏@heathercmc  42s 
My friend @klittell25 just saw what we think were the final 3 teams for the Amazing Race dashing thru the AK airport

pic.twitter.com/bJe3mkqMmu
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #386 on: July 02, 2013, 04:23:20 PM »
Picture!

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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #387 on: July 02, 2013, 04:32:17 PM »
Picture!


Looks like it could be self drive  :ascared

They are running to a parking lot.  The taxi area is behind and to the their left.

Street view
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #388 on: July 02, 2013, 04:35:58 PM »
Hope so.  But maybe directed to a predeterminated section where taxis are waiting for them. Wouldn't be the first time.
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #389 on: July 02, 2013, 04:45:06 PM »
Taxis ARE involved.
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #390 on: July 02, 2013, 05:51:00 PM »
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Over run by tv camera crews around here in the past 16 hours.  The amazing race and a small crew filming the Zipline in Hoonah.


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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #391 on: July 02, 2013, 06:37:11 PM »
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #392 on: July 02, 2013, 07:00:40 PM »
Picture!


Looks like it could be self drive  :ascared

They are running to a parking lot.  The taxi area is behind and to the their left.

Street view

Nevermind!

It looks like they were headed for taxis when you read the sign!   :groan:
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #393 on: July 02, 2013, 09:56:55 PM »

Approved to re-post this from the spec thread :tup:


Teams could've used speedboats.. ???


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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #394 on: July 04, 2013, 03:40:07 PM »
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This is my first post.  I live in Juneau and glad to have Juneau on the TAR map.
I have tried for the last two days to register so I could post this information but was having difficulty. 
This is what I know about the race in Juneau on Tuesday from talking to people who witnesses events:

From the airport, the racers took taxis to the Douglas Island Boat harbor and were loaded into 3 Jet boats.
My co-worker’s wife called at 1:30pm, Alaska time, and informed him the racers just went by their boat and were loading onto jet boats.    These boats took them up the Taku River south of town. 
I talked to someone who drove one of the jetboats up the Taku River but he could not say where.  It said he had to keep quiet about the details and could not discuss it.  It would take about an hour to get to the Taku River lodge, a favorite tourist spot.  Tourists are flown to the lodge by float plane.   I would guess they did some task at the lodge or on one of the Glaciers around the river. 

A round trip back to the harbor would have been 2-3 hours max.  My Wife and Son were now at the harbor waiting for the racers to return and they never return.  They never saw the boats return.  One of my friends had arrived at the harbor now and was talking with the crew and they said they were shooting a commercial.  At the 3 hour mark since the racers had left, the production crew that was hanging around finally left the harbor.  My friend followed them and they went to the airport and the Alaska Seaplanes hanger.  They were in three cars and he was the second car in line, they tried to lose him several times by stopping along the road letting him go by.  He would go by and then just wait for them to go again.  Finally, the lead car turned down a one-way street the wrong way to try to lose him.  It did not work and he was able to stay with them until they arrived at the hanger.  They crew went inside the hanger and he did not see them.  He assumed they boarded float planes to fly to Hoonah.  He left.  It was around 4pm.

The next I heard of the location of the racers was in Hoonah on the zip line.  Hoonah is 40 flight miles from Juneau and the racers would have had to get there by plane or helicopter.  They would have not taken the Jet boats to Hoonah. It would be a 4-5 hour boat ride. Almost 70 miles by water.  I am thinking they transferred to the float planes at the lodge or a water transfer in Taku inlet.   Never heard where they went after the zip line.
At 6pm, I left work and was determine to find the finish line.  I had several ideas that would make a great finish line.  Mendenhall glacier, Shine of Saint Teresa, Echo Cove (End of the Road), Glacier Gardens, The top of the Tram, Cope Park. 

Went to all these locations and nothing.  No sign of the racers or crew or anything. 

Juneau hosted 5 large cruise ships in port yesterday, so if the racers were downtown, someone would have seen them.  Nothing. 

The one spot I did not think of until now is The Last Chance Mining Museum at Gold Creek.  This is a very historical spot where gold mining took place.  It is behind the town of Juneau tuck away in a valley.  It has a 1 mile road to get to the creek and then a 200ft foot bridge to go across the creek to the mining ruins against the mountain. 
Still no word of the racers or what happened this morning.   I will keep posting when I learn of my news!   Happy 4th everyone!

I hope that wasn't too long of a post?     ;)




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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #395 on: July 04, 2013, 03:49:25 PM »
Here is a picture of one of the Jetboats leaving the harbor!!   

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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #396 on: July 04, 2013, 04:02:03 PM »
 :hiya IinAlaska, and  :wel2 to the R.F.F.

 :tu for the info to you and your family.
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #397 on: July 04, 2013, 04:03:53 PM »
IinAlaska  :hiya

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« Reply #398 on: July 04, 2013, 04:24:54 PM »
Oh my gosh!! How awesome!! :tu SO MUCH for sharing, we are all thrilled it was in Alaska!That is great work!
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Re: Amazing Race 23 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #399 on: July 04, 2013, 04:41:09 PM »
Welcome to RFF, IinAlaska!

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Thank you so very much for sharing that! If I can't see the teams racing myself, it's wonderful to hear about someone having a great adventure.