We are Alaska's largest supplier of KUHL Apparel, Canada Goose & Kamik Kid's Winter Gear. We also sell Baffin, Columbia, Sorel, Xtratuf, Bogs, Muckboots.
During the summer, we rent fishing gear and give advice for those who want to try their luck at the nearby Ship Creek. We always have fishermen on staff to help you choose your best gear.
We know cold and wet weather and our goal is to provide reasonably priced gear to meet Alaska's climate.
We are a true retail co-op. Our store is owned by Alaskans & their families, Alaskan military members, & Alaskan villages & Alaskan businesses.
Our outlet takes advantage of our 32 year relationship with vendors which sell us prior year's first-quality goods at deeply discounted prices. We pass the savings on to our customers.
In addition to being open all summer, the Outlet is open for special occasions, like Black Friday Weekend, After Christmas, Fur Rondy & the Ididarod, so people can enjoy lower prices on great outdoor gear.
Tampere, Finland (though I spent the Fall 2016 in Hong Kong and I'm moving to Prague, Czech Republic in February)
I saw Metallica's One, Amorphis' Alone and Nightwish's Over the Hills and Far Away music videos in a music program on TV back in 2001 and the 12-year-old me thought "hey this heavy metal thing isn't so scary after all" (I guess I had seen some death metal -like stuff with growl vocals in the same program and thought all metal is just some scary-looking old men screaming in a forest ) Not long after that I found Iron Maiden and after that more and more bands and also bunch of new friends.
Currently alto sax (7th year of lessons) and flute (more than 10 years of lessons). I've also played piano and violin when I was younger and had couple of guitar lessons. I own a keyboard and a guitar and I'd love to learn to play the bass.
I'm finishing my Master's studies in Journalism back in Finland. Partly also doing some translation studies courses as my Bachelor's was in Translation and interpreting (Finnish-German-Finnish) and I hold the study right to Master's in Translation studies as well. I love travelling and snowboarding. Besides Finnish and English I'm fluent in Portuguese and German and also know quite a bunch of other languages.
Thanks to my cousin recording some of the songs to cassettes for me back in the days, I still kinda like the 90s eurodance stuff like Barbie Girl, Bailando, Coco Jamboo, Captain Jack etc.
And thanks to Maso and Memnoch talking about the cruise so much since 2011 or 2012 in Tuska etc and now Stam1na being booked, I'm finally coming to 70k!
In 6th grade a friend played Master of Puppets and Rust in Peace for me. I immediately realized it was a travesty that all music did not sound this good.
I have an SLSMG guitar. Kinda been stuck in the same place playing wise for a while, and low on energy, so I've been neglecting the guitar :(
Practice Wing Chun, lift weights, work on cars, shoot guns, play video games. Moved to Portland a year ago from Seattle, so my social network is not as filled out as I would like it to be.
Honestly, I am a pretty open person. I'll talk to people I just met that night about investment strategy or dating advice. So I think anything really extreme I could give you would weird you out more than it would weird me out :)
In HS (70s) I was listening to Boston, KISS, Van Halen, Rush and MTV. When I saw Rammstein I started to turn to metal. I developed a soft spot for female fronted bands, Kittie, Crucified Barbara, Angelspit, Arkona, Hanzel und Gretyl. Something about a woman screaming that gets me. Came on the cruise 1st time just to see Arch Enemy and Crucified Barbara. Then I was hooked because I saw Therion and more stuff I didn’t even know existed, Pirate Metal, Folk Metal, Black Metal. But I’m still very much a metal newbie.
I hang at the Casino Bar or outside smoking. Else I'm at the Cafe drinking coffee or lining up for the next band..
In HS (70s) I was listening to Boston, KISS, Van Halen, and MTV. When I saw Rammstein I started to turn to metal.
I hang at the Casino Bar or outside smoking on level 3 or 4. Else I'm at the Cafe drinking coffee or lining up for the next band.
When I was 5 or 6 my grandma made me dance a few Queen songs at home and one step later I was headbanging to the sound of Sepultura.
I'm unfortunately unemployed and I'm taking care of my sick but beloved mom at home since last december
I write here and talk to my friends on facebook since I can't leave my mom alone for a long time. Travelling with you guys is gonna be a well deserved rest to me.
Not what but who! Always enjoyed classic rock and American metal, but my true love Brian introduced me to "trve" metal
All free time is spent teaching or doing yoga, going to Orange Theory, playing video games or drinking craft beer
There was a lot of metal, particularly Rammstein, being played at a student bar when I moved to Trondheim to study. Didn't relly like metal before then. I think Sehnsucht was the first metal album I bought back in 1998, but it might have been Herzeleid.
My GF will join me for the first time this year. We were together last year, but got together after I bought the ticket, and I couldn't afford to buy her one as well then.
I started listening to Celtic music and mainstream rock maybe around 10 or 11 (2001 or 2002). First major metal bands then were LORDI, Nightwish, and a number of other random ones my brother was into. Maybe around 2006 I started mixing power metal/hard rock/some progressive death. I really got into Finnish/Swedish stuff at this point. Rammstein, DBA, Takida, COB, Eluviete, etc. Towards 2009/2010 I really started getting into heavier stuff. Cannibal Corpse, Scar Symmetry, and others. I also got a college roomate who was a straight up death metal/metal core guy so I branched out a little bit. in 2012 I dated a girl from then until 2015 and really branched out even more matching her tastes. Now I couldn't tell you what I listen to because I love it all!
I will be on the beach enjoying breakfast on the morning of 2/2. I hope to see all of you before we board...I'm 6'6" so I'll for sure be able to see all of you
I am the youngest sibling in my family, so when I was little I’d usually just listen to whatever my sisters were into at the time. One day that stopped being J-pop and started being symphonic power metal, and I got obsessed with Nightwish, Kamelot, and Sonata Arctica. I wandered away from “boat metal” for a while to explore the big wide world of music outside of it, then got back into heavy music/metal through metalcore (boo!), then had an amazing time on my first cruise in 2015 which got me back into the more European side of modern metal. 2017 will be my third year in a row!
I play guitar and bass, and I think I can sing (as in I sing in a band, but I wouldn’t say I have a terrific voice so much as a functional one)
I’m currently a full time student in the last year of my undergraduate degree in geology, going into law school next fall. That means that this is going to be my last cruise for at least the next three years, so lets make it count!
I love metalcore? Like really really love metalcore. And not just dignified metalcore like Architects and August Burns Red, but really trashy metalcore. Metalcore so trashy that it makes you want to crawl under your bed and cry like a little baby.
Kind of a nebulous question, but it was just sort of a natural progression. I started out listening to Linkin Park, then radio rock (mostly "post-grunge" like Crossfade and 90s alternative stuff like Candlebox), until I heard a Killswitch Engage song I really liked. I checked out their back catalog, couldn't take the screaming, and settled for Mudvayne and Slipknot to adapt to it. Then I asked a friend for similar bands and one of the names was In Flames. The rest is history.
I still listen to Mudvayne and Slipknot from time to time, and I have a pretty big collection of metalcore that would make many of you nauseated.
I play drums (though not well enough for basically any of the bands on the ship) and scream/growl. I can sing pretty well, but I don't have a great singing voice. I can also play a few basic chords on guitar.
Another difficult one to answer, since it's fluctuated not just with tastes but with the bands' material, but here goes. This is in order.
"I heard you like coffee with your oxygen." (If anybody can honestly deduce this reference without any help, I will buy you drinks for a full day on the ship.)
It was a long, long time ago. And augh, I have two and a half more days of work, cause I had to pick up some weekend stuff. Oh well, beer money.
Borknagar (Sorry Ayreon, you got bumped since I posted here last. Very high hopes for the new one though!)
Product Specialist for a Laboratory Information Systems Software company. Title isn't at all fitting since we are basically a combination of RnD, QA, and software development.
Anything and everything beer. Drinking it, brewing it, and drinking more if it. Other than that gaming, movies, and shows.
Hey, are you the one with the wild Turkey picture?...and have absolutely nothing else to contribute other than that.
Driving to the city with my father listening to Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple and others.
Actually try to find people to go there, maybe a good friend will come with me, not sure at this point!
I get into metal by lord Ozzy osbourne and into black métal with burzum by a friend ! It changed my life, for sure !
seeing it's been a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time since i've been here, i'll introduce myself (again) so, hi there my name is Tim. and as my name says, i'm Dutch. yes the beautifull country of stroopwafels, heidevolk and god dethroned.
i'm a freight forwarder by profession and also a semi-professional storyteller. (most are the norse/germanic myths and legends, but i also do celtic ones and fairy tales) so who knows, be nice and perhaps you'll get to hear a good story
After my parents giving me a Bay City Rollers album in 1976, I went straight out and bought some KISS albums. Not so much metal but that's what steered me in the harder rock direction. Bands like Priest and Maiden are what really got my juices flowing. In fact a lot of the NWOBHM bands were faves. I come from a small town originally and rarely got to see any live music so during my first year in college (in London ON) I was able to catch Anvil and Razor on the same bill at a small club. From that moment. I was hooked on thrash for life.
Thirty years in the IT industry, developing mostly in-house desktop and web applications for banks and smaller companies. I'm a full-stack Microsoft developer but I plan on getting into mobile app development.
One night, my parents were watching an AC/DC concert on T.V. I know, not really metal, but that's what got me to into harder music. From there I moved into heavier stuff: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, etc. When I went to college, I met a guy there who told me about a band called Stratovarius, and from that point on, I was all about power metal.
I've gone through all types of music in my life but I'd say Reload Metallica album got me onto the right track eventually. Say what you will about the cd, I still love it.
For you old-timers, I’m the sister of Evil Dan, whom some of you may know (he’s a five- or six-timer, I think, plus Barge to Hell). I went on the boat for the first time in 2017, but I am quiet at first, so didn’t meet enough people!
My brother has been into it since we were kids. I ignored most of it (unless it had funny lyrics) because it was my brother’s thing,
yuck. As an adult, I saw Metal Evolution on VH1 and fell in love with it, watched it a million times. He saw his opportunity to indoctrinate me, got me to an Iron Maiden concert years ago (easy gateway drug to metal), talked a ton about how much fun 70k is (and made me watch endless videos), and a few years later, here I am!
Piano, flute, piccolo (through university, at least, though I haven’t touched any of them in a long time)
I still feel like too much of a noob to pick favorites. I tend to like thrash, death, technical death. I try to be open-minded, but have discovered some pretty strong dislikes in certain sub-genres. To each his own.
Quality Manager and Senior Microbiologist for a hemodialysis company. I’ve worked in IT (many moons ago) also, but have been a scientist for the last 18 years or so in many fields (forensics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food).
In my spare time, I whine about the fact that I don’t have enough spare time. Also: Read books of all kinds, binge watch TV, watch movies, play video games (PS3, PS4). Crafty shit: knit, crochet, sew, write in journals with fancy colored pens. Talk to animals. Study serial killers. Make people laugh. Share too much on social media.
Starling wrote: For you old-timers, I’m the sister of Evil Dan, whom some of you may know (he’s a five- or six-timer, I think, plus Barge to Hell). I went on the boat for the first time in 2017, but I am quiet at first, so didn’t meet enough people!
Welcome! Say hi to Dan--I'm a 6 time vet and he always makes fun of Canadian accent....sorry.......... eh?
He's still around lurking on the forum, but doesn't post anymore, I don't think. And he's not on Facebook. But I'll say hi for you, ya hoser!
Regular boring 9 to 6 job. Besides that, i hunt metal gigs and fests around the world! (Maybe that's why i'm fucking 33, single and living with mom. No big deal )
So basically, like stick shift for programming, lol. I only know enough vi to exit it without panicking.
Fortunately I work at a shop that is spaces friendly, not like on the TV show Silicon Valley. That guy breaks up with his girlfriend because he uses tabs and emacs, but she is a spaces and Vim gal. It’s like a religion with some, haha!
I'll redo mine since it's been awhile and some things have changed. Besides, I did it last time from another account.
Industrial music came first, and then my best friend began dating a real metalhead who got me into Amorphis, Cradle of Filth, and the local extreme metal radio show. And underground hip hop, haha.
I played clarinet up until high school and had a short stint with a guitar, but I'm pretty bad with music.
Changes all the time, but it's currently Strapping Young Lad, Allegaeon, Lich King, Razor and Warbringer.
I'm a front-end web developer. I program all the pretty things you like to click on, but I can do just about anything other than server stuff.
"So I heard you used to work in the Industry, huh?" (Go ahead and ask me, I love chatting about my old workplace, just know that I was still sitting behind a computer typing out code there, too, no video appearances!).
Vass, North Carolina. Vass is a little town with only two stoplights. It is next to Ft. Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the world, and also Southern Pines which is a golf mecca. Surprisingly I have never played golf or been employed by the military or government.
The very first cassette tape I ever bought, back in 1991 at the ripe age of 13, was the Metallica "Black" album. That lead into Megadeath, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Sepultura, Grave, Mercyful Fate... you get the idea. I was ruined, grew my hair long, all my clothes turned black. It wasn't well accepted here in the rural "bible belt". The mother of a good friend of mine in highschool actually melted his metal collection on the stove because it was devil music!
In short, customer service and technical/warranty support for a company making soldering irons here in the US. If someone has an issue with the fancy gadget they just bought for their electronics lab, I'm the one they call. I spend my days talking to perturbed or downright ornery engineers and sales-people. Funtimes! Lets never speak of it again!
Level 7, a quad in the 76 block for 2018! First cruise and first metal show since, dear lord has it been that long, Ozzfest at the Rock in 2001?
"Let me see your Prince Albert." I expect that will be creepy for everyone involved! Protip: To make things interesting, my real name isn't even Tom but it does begin with T. Let's see who reads this and can remember!
Hard to say. I keep my stuff in Grand Rapids, MI, but I've spent more time abroad than at home for the last ~10 years.
Varies as time goes by. Get tired of some things, while others are reintroduced after some absence. Epica stays near the top. Judas Priest, Sabaton and Turisas have been high on the playlist lately. Tomorrow, it might be Irish folk, or classical, or black metal.
Cruise ship officer. Royal Caribbean. Just found out my next contract is on Independence. Yes, I'll be getting paid to go to 70,000 Tons. You'll be partying at my (temporary) home!
I once ejected a friend from a moving vehicle, because he was playing Lady GaGa on the way home from a Megadeth concert. Was funny for a second, and then he went under the back wheel. But he lived, kept drinking, and we're still friends.
I remember when Blind Guardian played their big theater show in 2015, there were a LOT of ship's crew lining the back wall (so as not to block anyone's view), including at least two ship's officers. In some ways, metal is worldwide.
Metallica Reload in high school. Got exposed to the breadth of metal through OzzFest and Megadeth's Gigantour.
The first metal band my husbend remembers listening to is Diablo, he was about 13-14 years old. Before we met I listened mostly pop, but also Sonata Arctica, Mokoma and Viikate were on my playlist. After J came into my life I've added a bit heavyer stuff in there
J is learning to play the guitar, slowly and not so steadily. When I was a kid I playd the harmonics... I wanted to be the best, but I was actually very bad at it, got mad because of it and never played anything since!
J is a foreman of a metal shredder. I am a prossessing operator in the electronics industry. Boring stuff.
For some reason at this hour (it's 00:30 am...), we can't think of anything that isn't indecent so it's better if I leave this one unanswered!
We are a married couple, this is our honeymoon trip since we never took it when we got married over six years ago. Finally we have the opportunity to take this trip!! We hope to meet people from all over the world and have new friends and a great experience!
My classmate liked System of a Down, so I checked them out. I found that I really liked SOAD, so I began listening to nu-metal. This began the progression from listening to well-known bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden to diving into the different metal genres.
Constantly changes, but here it is in no particular order: Opeth, Dream Theater, Tool, Ne Obliviscaris, Gojira
Do not remember, but it was gradual. Was always drawn to heavy music, but only experimented. Did not fully come out of the closet and embrace my metal side until late 20s early 30s.
Top albums of 2017 though came from bands such as: Archspire, Desolate Shrine, Chaos Moon, Temple of Void, Bell Witch, Loss,
What an amazing year 2017 was for music. I figure I bought more then a 100 albums this year, which is probably more then I had bought the previous few years combined.
In an effort to emphasize childhood immunizations and the need for immunizations before the start of the school year, Shots for Tots and Party Central in Bossier City are hosting a Back to School Bash on Friday, August 3.
This event will feature face painting, an inflatable jump house, balloon animals, and the Shots for Tots mobile unit, which will offer immunizations from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Every child who is immunized will receive a voucher for a free round of putt-putt golf. There also will be a special back-to-school surprise for each child with an up to date immunization record.
With the 2012 school year drawing closer, Bonnie Hughes, Shots for Tots program coordinator, says the Bash begins a two week long push by Shots for Tots to immunize as many children as possible. “Keeping children immunized directly affects the health of our community,” she explained. “With the help of the Party Central we are bringing about community-wide awareness of childhood immunizations.” Shots for Tots, a community service funded by Willis-Knighton Health System, provides immunizations, immunization scheduling, and consulting by a program nurse. Vaccine is provided through the Louisiana Department of Public Health’s Vaccine for Children Program.