Due to some technical difficulties, I haven't been posting for a couple weeks, but now we're back on line, hopefully. The roads continue to be built, but this post is more about the off roading extravaganza that we have on the island. It is known as the Naukati Mud Boggs.
Naukati is an unincorporated town on the island, which means that it is not a real town, just a bunch of (strange) people living in a remote spot. We call people from there Naukateers. It's a wild west kind of place.
But for six amazing weekends in the summer, they host the Mud Bogs. People from all over the island work on modifying their scrappy island rigs to race through 200 ft. of thick soupy mud.
It has grown over the years and it is about the only public event we've got (except for a marathon in May). They put some bleachers in this year, and had a live band and bon fire after hours.
Some friends just moved here from Arizona to work for the school. The school provides housing for teachers. In Naukati, the teacher's trailer is in the middle of the pit, so when the trucks come out of the mud they circle around the teacher's trailer to get back in line to go through again. They also do their pit stop all around their yard, so it was pretty "exciting" for the teachers to have the Mud Boggs surrounding their new home on their first weekend in Alaska, ever.
