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  • In 1981, Dick Mackey, winner of the Iditarod dog race, began selling burgers out of a bus at Coldfoot, and they became a hit among the ice-road truckers.

    Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011

  • The move comes three weeks after History scrubbed the project from its spring schedule upon discovering the Kennedys were not pawn stars, UFO hunters, ax men, ice-road truckers or swamp people.

    Half of U.S. can see controversial Kennedy miniseries Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • ReelzChannel struck a deal for U.S. telecast rights to the eight-part miniseries. about three weeks after History scrubbed the project from its spring schedule upon discovering the Kennedys were not pawn stars, UFO hunters, ax men, ice-road truckers or swamp people.

    Reelz offers glimpse at Kennedy miniseries Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • In 1981, Dick Mackey, winner of the Iditarod dog race, began selling burgers out of a bus at Coldfoot, and they became a hit among the ice-road truckers.

    Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011

  • The 2010 Mazda2's clutch is watery, the Hankook tires squeak like stepped-on mice, the electric steering is as numb as an ice-road trucker's bottom.

    Mazda's Hot Hatch 2010

  • This will possibly become particularly problematic for oil and gas exploration because of the time needed at the beginning and end of the ice-road season for mobilization and demobilization.

    Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • These roads depend on the structural integrity of the underlying frozen base material and, thus, a significant period of freezing temperature must occur each autumn before ice-road construction can begin.

    Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • In other cases, permanent ice-road corridors have been established and are reopened each winter season.

    Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • Winter ice-road construction is affected by a number of climatic factors, including air temperature, accumulated air freezing index, and snowfall.

    Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • The old-fashioned, picturesque ice-road sleigh-haul will last as long as north-woods lumbering, -- even in the railroad districts, -- but the locomotive now does the heavy work.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

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