I'm paying for this post.

Yea, the North is pretty cool, we drove the Top of The World Highway, stopped in Chicken Alaska (pop. 30-50 at it's peak in the summer.) Went on to Dawson, did the Sourtoe, got drunk and gambled. Dylan staggered from boardwalk to boardwalk on the walk back to the bunkhouse. Well, I didn't win my category. I'm pretty choked about it, but I've found something to do, and that is starting the organization of Facial Hair clubs in our great Nation under the umbrella of Beard Team Canada. I want to get back to Winnipeg, miss a lot of good people there. But we keep meeting good people everywhere we stop. Hmmmm, yea. I think I'm going to try and write more when I'm not hungover.

Introducing the Loafcam...

So this is the loafcam. We had the Parade and Grizzly Beard contest last night, with Beard Team Canada bringing home 2 of the categories with the Black Beard and the Pyrite Pioneers. We closed down the bars and were still singing O Canada with the aussies long after all the other teams were in bed and the bars had pushed us out for the night. Today is the big contest and it should be an incredible sight to see. More to come...

Primping and Preening day

So today is the official Beard Parade and Grizzly Beard competition. The Beards will all be busy with carefully conditioning, brushing, molding, shaping and generally polishing their Beards. I'm going to try and post pictures of our very own Beard Team Canada, which has a strong showing for a first year team. We've been hanging around with Dave Janzen of Beard Team Canada and his buddy Nathan, who are doing something similar to myself and loaf and have some good pictures up here for you guys to check out. more to come...

What's up buttercup!?

Hey, Loaf here. Quick one, Alaskan beer awesome, getting tattoo today, packing car now.

Beard BBQ

Hey,
The beards are rolling in now. This is bairly the tip of the iceberg, as I wasn't really taking pictures, mostly filming and drinking stellar Alaskan beer. There was a hosted BBQ then a bunch of the beardos headed downtown for some beer. We were hanging out at Humpy's, which boasts the most incredible selection of beer I've ever seen with some of the most incredible names I've ever heard. I've been enjoying some of the darker beers, specifically Midnight Sun's Son of Berserker and Arctic Rhino Coffee Porter and a really killer Scotch Ale by Kanai River Brewery that had some crazy name I can't quite recall. sorry. I don't think I've had anything under 8.5% since I crossed the border.

Anyway, we're having a great time up here, Loaf looks poised to have a good chance in the Partial Beard: Sideburns category, but there's some stiff competition. Everyone is super friendly and we've met some stellar people so far. I'll fire up more pics as soon as i can.

got lost and drove the Alaskan highway...

We've got some catching up to do...
So we rocked out of Whitehorse, drove the crazy part of the alaskan highway, which is the two hours south of the border, and is like driving on the worst winnipeg pothole filled street with crazy frost heave speedbumps that can get a Monte Carlo airborne at 100km. We crashed in Tok (not actually crashed, dont worry mom) which was kinda just a dinky little not really anything town, then bombed along towards Anchorage. We got lost and accidentally ended up driving the entire historic Alaskan Highway, which ends in Delta Junction. We bought certificates for it and went to grab some breaky. We hit up a cool friendly diner called Poorboys which turned out to have the best ribs ever. They beat any ribs I've ever had in every way. The new owners of the place were these real friendly folks from North Carolina who drove the Alaskan highway in January with their meat smoker. I would consider taking a trip up there just to have those ribs again.







Anyway, drove from there down towards Anchorage, pulled in at a little place on the highway called Long Rifle Lodge for some water and ended up digging the view so much we stayed a night. We had the place to ourselves, sat on the grass on the side of a mountain, smoked pipes and drank whisky and wine and beer, and just took the night off. Next morning, still singing "Whisky your the devil" we rolled the last hairy 2 hours of the drive to Anchorage. We're couchsurfing again here and spent the evening at a meet and greet with the early arrival beardos at the fantastic Midnight Sun Brewery. Alaska has more wicked breweries then any place ever. There's 4 just in Anchorage, which is pop like 250,000.

So alive and well and going strong. Loaf is snoring like a '72 buick with a broken muffler fighting a dinosaur and I'm about to hit the hay, well floor, as well. We have a beard picnic in the park tomorrow and I just realized I should take some beard pictures as you guys can't see the video yet. Rest assured, there will be more footage then anyone will ever want to watch. It's been an incredible trip so far though and the Championships look to be off the wall as well, so as always, we'll keep you posted.

cheers,
dylan

Whitehorse loves the mustache and the mustache loves Whitehorse

Whitehorse is a cool little town. They love my stache and give no beard love. Me an Loafer hit the bars, had some jars of beer and watched legendary lap steel blues man Sonny Rhodes at the Goldrush. Loaf wrote enough for both of us so i'll just drop some pics.
dylan