Flying above the ARCTIC CIRCLE - NO ROADS lead to this place | Alaska: Part 11 

What a cool shot of the guy standing on the wing!

Damn. That takes me back. I was one of the pilots of that DC4. It happened winter of 06-07. We eyeballed it and decided we couldn't make the runway the fire was too out of control. They drug it out of the woods where we set down all the way to Nenana a few weeks later.

Well I was going to do a psychology paper..... but then I saw Josh uploaded a new video!

This is far one of the best vídeos I have ever seen! Alaska is astonishing! Difficult to imagine how do people live out there in winter! Great images!

My first solo xc was to Bettles, broke down and Jay from Brooks Range Aviation gave me a place to stay. Great experience and great people.

Because of you and Chris, I'm able to see friendly people and places on this earth I otherwise never knew existed. The music was perfect for this video. Thanks Josh !

You had me at de Havilland Otter with 1000 hp polish conversation. Sweet Jesus. Great series!

I think the pictures of those float planes sitting in the lake which is so flat calm is one of the most beautiful pics ive ever seen thank you for sharing stay safe

My question is, how do you plan on following up this amazing series?

who else loves the Alaska series?

Keep doing what you love.

words cannot express how happy i feel for those who live there, i wish i were there

The loons! Homesick for Alaska right now.

Thank you for sharing this amazing trip to Alaska. I really love to go there!!! Greetings from Greece🇬🇷🛫

I Absolutely Love the Alaska Series and will probably rewatch

I loved it. The thundering silence and the birds in the back ground was breathtaking. The gentleman needs to get a NOCO GB150 to help with starting his truck. Great job Josh!!

Awesome experience when you're saying it's 1:00 AM but it looks like a summer day in the states at about 7:30 PM. It must really play with your head. The insects were bad but I lived outside of Green Bay Wisconsin for years and the bugs were bad there in the summer also. Great series thanks so much for all your hard work and effort capturing this magnificent content in a place where many of us will never go except through your videoes...

I have seen all 11 videos so far.. After each video ends. I have to just sit here and wrap my head around what I have just seen. Thank you for all your hard work Josh in putting this together. I look forward to number 12.

It's amazing how someplace can be so peaceful and amazingly beautiful, but at the same time, dangerous and amazingly hostile. In part, thanks to a something as small as a mosquito,,,,,,millions of them! Thank you for taking us along on this adventure.

Josh, Every video is better than the last. Music, movement, story, color, sound, pace. Nailed it.

Thank you for sharing this. These stories add a lot in one´s life. Fly safe mate!

Loons and mosquitoes and you can still get a frozen burrito! What more could you want? The shots of the lake with the loon sounds were incredible. I noted what looked like bear spray in the truck’s dash. It certainly takes a special kind of person to want to live there. Thanks for this series.

Josh, you have outdone yourself. Most people don't know whats beyond their back door. All I can say is thanks for sharing this awesome experience.

Unbelievable, what a nice environment. As always, very nice filming , Josh !

the footage combined with the music is incredible!!!! Something to be said about the SIMPLE LIFE!!!!

This Alaska series is arguably the best stuff I have seen on RU-vid. Congrats, Josh. Keep it up!

Stunning

What a great video of a stunning place,keep up the good work.

Your production quality if amazing man. Thank you for this. I’ll have to go to Alaska now and do some flying one day.

Josh, absolutely unbelievable!! We take so much for granted in our everyday lives....it is really very humbling to see survival at its best in the Arctic. Summer is spectacular, but then there is winter and the “eternal night” for days and days as they await the light of Spring!!! Awesome job with this series!!!

That Otter is beautiful

Great video! Makes me want to fly again so bad. Rode my motorcycle from Seattle to Prudhoe Bay back in 2003, so I know the remoteness of AK. Flew with guide friend of my Dad in Fairbanks with a Helio Courier through Merrill Pass to a remote hunting lodge in the middle of the AK range and landed on river gravel bars, unbelievably remote and beautiful. Alaska is amazing.

Like..LOVE IT! THANX..From South Africa..Im a 266hr Priv/Pilot with PPL only..on mostly Cessna's except Pa.28 for initial training,though got my licence on C.152. Great vid..love it..would love to visit Alaska one day too.

I was flown out of Chandler Lake in Gates of the Arctic NP in that Otter, and bought lots of food in that store!

Always good to see some ole familiar country..flying north . Cm

Welcome to my world, Mr Flowers. Been trucking up in the north for eons. Been to San Marcos, too

Just beautiful

WOW! It is so beautiful! Thanks for throwing in the date so we could really appreciate it I love how GA plays a major part of everything that happens at this village!

Thank you, Josh and Chiss for your videos I have no words for the beauty.

I wonder how they get vehicles up there. Crazy beautiful. Thanks for the amazing video

You should come to Northern Sweden. Sun doesn't set here for a long time during the summer. Just stays slightly above the horizon. Awesome series this, always wanted to visit Alaska.

Great video and narration. A very remote place to live. Your tour guide was very friendly.

WOW!! What an adventure. It's hard to believe that places like that exist but I'm glad they do. Makes you realize how easy we have it. Thanks both of you for taking us along. Great documentary.

This whole Alaska series is amazing Josh.

I wanna visit Bettles !! Beautiful video! Thanks

The idea of flying is so insane especially when you go through places like this. Glad someone's doing this i know sure as shit i wouldn't.

Date: Wednesday 17 January 2007 Departure airport: Fairbanks International Airport, AK (FAI/PAFA), United States of America Destination airport: Nixon Fork Mine, AK, United States of America Narrative: The Douglas C-54 N82FA departed Fairbanks, carrying 3000 gallons of heating fuel for the Nixon Fork Mine. En route the no. 2 engine started running rough. The pilot elected to shut it down and return to Fairbanks. During the shutdown procedure, the engine caught fire. The fire extinguishing system was activated. The crew attempted to divert to Nenana Municipal Airport, AK (ENN), but a forced gear-up landing had to be carried out in the tundra. The left wing was consumed by fire.

Absent the actual awesomeness of the whole adventure - hearing those loons was THE best!!! Being a native New Englander (Maine specifically)... I remember the days when it was the norm to see/hear loons on many local lakes and ponds. Not any more. Thanks Josh for such a great video!!

Josh, I am just blown away with this trip, thank you so much for sharing it!

I enjoyed my time in the North Country. I was up in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT for a summer and I spent a couple of summers up on Ellef Ringnes Island up in the Arctic Islands at 77.85N Lattitude. They were very intersting times and I did learn a great deal.

Absolutely brilliant filming. I love the way in which you capture life through the camera. Your are very fortunate to be able to do the things you love and we are fortunate that there are people like you who share these amazing moments with all of us. Thanks Josh

Beautiful absolutely beautiful. You do such a great job filming. You can really appreciate nature there

Love this video. Incredible that you were at a place where the sun didn't set at all.

Incredible place, minus the mosquitoes! Thanks for sharing your experiences.

I love the bear spray holder...haha. Love the series.

I have SOOOO enjoyed this series!!! I also need to tell you that having watched almost all of your videos I find myself, when I am backing out of a parking space in a crowded lot, wanting to yell CLEAR!!!

Fast forward to 7/23/22........ and am still coming back to see this video because the tranquility and the scenery is just amazing. On another note, Oshkosh birds are starting to arrive its exiting to see everyone despite the criminally high fuel prices that are being levied on us all. I am happy to see the aviation family together again. Also Josh, am looking forward in seeing your new glass panel on the bird.

Such an awesome adventure, I’m so glad you had the opportunity to come up here and visit our State. You had a great guide too, Chris is a solid dude and a great mentor for flying...

Incredible place

Avgas at a remote Alaskan airstrip...$? Chris walking out the ratcheting fuel hose while Josh is busy with an intro...priceless!!! 😜👍

Great series! It makes you appreciate how complicated we’ve made our lives!

Can't think of any words to describe this. Excellence.

The scenery at 0:46 or so.....amazing. Thanks guys....

Beautiful and fascinating. Thanks for top notch filmmaking Josh.

I’m in AK now and drove from NC (in a XJ like you have at the end of the video) Truly an amazing state and already can’t wait to come back. Wish I could have went up in a plane while I was here, but even though they are everywhere, traveling by plane is not cheap! Great video!

what a place to live!

WOW!!! Completely amazing series!

Dang that’s unreal, some awesome still photography opportunities when you were by the float planes.

Another great one Josh! Wow mosquitos!!!

Been there; done that though I went to Utqiagvik/PABR. I long to return. Glad you are enjoying the awesome experience.

I do believe those Mosquitos rival anything we have on the Texas Gulf Coast. It made me all itchy just watching them buzz around you. Thanks Josh for a wonderful series of videos on the great state of Alaska.

That 140 is just like mine, but without paint. Nice.

When Josh uploads a new video of someplace cool that Aviation as taken him. I sometimes wish I had gone to the flight school when I was choosing a major at Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Tulsa nearly 20 years ago, unfortunately it was to expensive and I settled for the AET (avionics) degree program instead. Oh well maybe some day I'll get a pilots license. Good video looking forward to part 12.🛩️📹👍

I just love how you mix up the cinematic footage and then the chill Vlogging. Keeping it real and authentic as always. Haven’t been commenting because I’ve been watching these on the pig screen but just wanted to jump on the phone and encourage you to keep up the good work. I have no idea how you’re going to one up this series. Seriously epic!

Awesome pictures and planes. ... Alan in 🇨🇱

Incredible Josh, just incredible. The story telling to the video photography is awesome.

Great production! Great music! Great trip! Very well done! I remember when the Austin out areas looked as humanless! But the Great State is all suburbs now....

Anyplace that's good enough for loons is good enough for me.

The Bear Spray holder cut directly into the dash😳😳

Another amazing video! I'm glad I stumbled across your page while searching around for aviation videos. I'll be on lesson 8 this week for my PPL and this series along with your other videos gives me motivation to stick with it!

Thank you! This was beautiful.

Most excellent episode of your documentary into Alaska. A joy to watch. Cheers from Winnipeg.

Great video!

This series has been total quality. I've subbed.

Loved the nice cabin Chris and you stayed in .

The Best, Simply The Best - Thanks ........

This is the life i would want. Float plane, on the lake, listen to the loons good i love it

Another weekly video, ya buddy!!! 😁👍🏻

I've been to Bettles, back in like 1990 I think. I don't recall the little store, but it was close to 30 years ago now--and we were only delivering some freight, so we weren't there too long. Very remote place though, indeed.

I've enjoyed these series more than any other Josh. Even though I haven't flown general aviation for years, I keep falling in love more and more when I watch your videos. It would be nice if you fly in the future to northern Canada. I saw so many beautiful things there. Keep it up!

Loved hearing the Loon on the lake. I'm going to have to look at the rest of your videos too. From an Alaskan keep safe and flying right side up.

Beautiful

Wow. Very jealous, I’d love to do that and go there one day. Also I’m sat here in the UK in my room itching after watching all those mosquitoes! Great video!

Fun fact: the Otter that Rob was walking on is one of the few remaining modified with the 1000hp PZL radial engine. An absolute workhorse, it's sheer power matched only by its oil consumption.

Awesome trip

Excellent Video!

Love your videos , great quality stuff

N82FA is now a C172 :) Bettles looked like a great place to visit. It's going to be a sad day when no more videos for this series are posted

Super cool video, stunning scenery, the mosquitoes would drive me insane!

Amazing. I'd love to live in a place like Bettles for awhile, that way of life is fascinating