Barrow Alaska: Polar Bears etc.
Emergency Actions if you see a polar bear: do you run? NO! They will outrun you! Go into the nearest house. Everyone keeps their front doors unlocked for this purpose. What? You want to walk to the beach to put your feet in the ocean?? No. Beaches aren't safe- polar bears. Someone can drive you. How about the tundra? No. Tundra isn't safe. Do not assume that if you see a polar bear they do not see you. Guess what? They do. Barrow Alaska is way up at the top of Alaska. During the Fall/Winter, the only way in or out of Barrow tends to be by flight. COVID restrictions have limited flights in and out of Barrow, so you have one flight in and one flight out a day. There is one day in the winter in which an ice path forms from Barrow to Prudhoe Bay and you can drive the 300 or so miles to Prudhoe Bay. So what is one to do in Barrow, you ask? How much does it cost to get there? As I am confident that this is NOT a tourist destination, I will be as thorough as I can be. There are cur