I saw several people had mentioned it in the cache logs of “He's Got The Whole World In His Hands” we spotted it, stood it up, and snapped a few pics just for fun.




Its for you…


Robo Jr and the phone.


[This message was edited by Ramness570 on March 18, 2003 at 01:52 AM.]

Ramness's post on groundspeak of the pictures got a few added funny captions. Check them out:
Added Captions on Groundspeak

Kenneth Pruett

This thread actually came to mind when I crossed Thompson Pass near Valdez, Alaska, and came upon this phone:



The whole area was covered with drifting snow, so I have no idea where that conduit goes, but at least this time of year, there is NOTHING in the vicinity of this phone ... for miles and miles. There is ONE power line through this pass, a 112KV line from Valdez to Glennallen. There are NO phone lines, as far as anyone knows. I would guess that the orange whip is an antenna.

No, I didn't call anyone, and unlike the other "lonely payphone" that used to somewhere out west, it wasn't constantly ringing.

Those things overhanging the roadway are not lights. They're just tubular aluminum, with reflectors on the tips. When the wind really starts whipping the snow around up there, the conditions are called "white-out" -- you literally can't see the road at all. When that happens, you stop looking down and look UP, at the reflectors, and stay between them (if you're silly enough not to turn around and go home at that point.) Mostly they're there to show the snowplow drivers where to plow, since otherwise they'd never find the road!

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Scott Johnson (ScottJ)