Utqiagvik, Alaska: Beefcake in the Most Isolated Town in the U.S.

Utqiagvik, Alaska (previously Barrow) is the most isolated town in the U.S.  You can't drive in or out.  Everything has to be flown in from Fairbanks (a 3 1/2 hour flight). so everything is frightfully expensive ($16 for a chicken sandwich at Artic Pizza.)

4,500 residents, 60% Inupiat (but only a few speak the Inupiaq language).  Although the town hosted the first same-sex wedding in the state, there are only four open lesbian residents and no gay men.

There's not a lot going on. The Inupiat Heritage Center has some exhibits, the Pluraagvik Recreation Center has a gym, and you can go on a tour of the tundra..And you can go physique watching.

There are only 226 students at Barrow High School, home of the Whales, but they are eager to take off their shirts whenever feasible.

When wrestling.






Or at the beach (for looking, not swimming -- the water is below 32 degrees and quite dangerous)













But there are always intrepid tourists who attempt a "Polar Plunge."















Back to the high school.  Powerlifting.


















Winning a "school spirit" award.














But, strangely enough, not on a vacation in Hawaii.  Too hot to go shirtless!