The Ice Park

Wow, what a beautiful day! I think it got to 28 degrees this afternoon without a cloud in sight. I didn't think it was going to be this warm today so i was over dressed. Almost could've ridden around in just my jersey and biking shorts! Todays route took me down to the Ice Park, which is an RV park in the summer and then through downtown and back up to Farmers loop. I wanted to ride all of Farmers loop because i stopped about half way yesterday, had other places i needed to go. Farmers loop is about 8.5 miles long and has a lot of roads branching off it that head much further out off town, i'll be checking those out soon. I've got some pictures from the ice park and some video on the bike path on the Chena river and out on Farmers loop. The pics are; a full size cabin, C-130 aircraft with troops exiting the plane, dads favorite woodland animal, a 4ft. diameter lens burning a piece of plywood, a 15ft. tall Eiffel tower and a kids maze about 5 ft. tall. I have many more pics of the Ice Park but i thought these were the coolest ones. At night they have colored lights shining on all of the carvings and i bet that looks pretty cool. I'll see if i can make a trip down there in the dark before they all melt! We'll have to see what tomorrow will bring. Getting pretty comfortable with Fairbanks now so i imagine i'll start making my way further out of town. I forgot to mention that in the vid by the river you will see open water i believe this is due to the fact there is a power plant and a water treatment plant just up stream almost in the downtown area but once you get past that it's frozen pretty good.