Official Alaska Field Thread

YUMMY_YUM · 05-08-2010, 04:53 AM

Dude, that sucks.

Kurupt310 · 05-11-2010, 11:36 PM

Fairbanks is the place to be for Alaska summer time, but the paintball action is less than stellar.

ndpenner · 05-12-2010, 06:15 PM

That sux...maybe we can do in Fairbanks what we have set up in Safford: one guy owns a compressor and bulk tanks, I sell paint from APX, and the city actually gave the paintballers some land to use as a field out in its recreational area.

Any shot at the city letting us use some unused land? Has anyone tried it yet? Heck, I've spent probably a month's time in man hours working on the field here and wouldn't mind doing it there, even if it was seasonal, as long as I still got to play. That is, assuming that it would be more than my wife and I doing ALL the work as it pretty much ended up being here. I've had the odd random friend help out maybe 3 times in...6 years. So yeah... if there's a will, there's a way.

I'm a year or two from getting a compressor (and even further from an airball setup) because I'm either getting laid off or getting pushed into quitting my current job here in a week and have to start life over and put my wife through school, but if others have the money right away, I certainly have the time.

I've been apart of paintball here for the last 10 years, built/rebuilt fields, held/put together/reffed tournaments both in AZ and New Mexico.

I'll post on here when I finally get up there (gotta drive from AZ. Yippee) and if anyone wants to do it, I'll help where I can. Otherwise, I guess I'll take up hiking or soemthing...lol.

Kurupt310 · 05-13-2010, 01:12 AM

The only hold up is finding a good spot of land. I don't have $15k to drop on a chuck of land or the additional costs to prep it. I don't know about the city supplying land or where to even start with that.

ndpenner · 07-21-2010, 12:19 AM

I'll try to track down my old high school teacher's email addy and see if he was around back when they first set everythingup in Safford. I know he's old school and he might've been around when they got everything cleared by the city, so maybe he can point me in the right direction.

vetryan15 · 03-21-2012, 07:25 PM

Hey so how is the paintball scene up in ak?? I might b moving up to Fairbanks from NJ, for a job. Kinda curious on how it is up there. Thanks

Chuckles_031 · 03-23-2012, 11:41 AM

theres really only two fields for speedball that i know of, but theres alot of land for woodsball, the two fields are wasilla splatterhouse and 187 paintball if i remember right, there both located near anchorage. There aren't any speedball fields that I know of near fairbanks.

Chuckles_031 · 03-23-2012, 11:43 AM

I was interested in starting a field near fairbanks, but the interest just doesn't seem to be there

vetryan15 · 03-25-2012, 08:27 PM

That sucks. Well if I move up there I would b interested in helping to start one up,

Chuckles_031 · 03-27-2012, 03:12 AM

there is a lot of people looking to start one, it's just the overhead is usually a problem for people, i mean if you had about 10 people go in on it, that weren't really looking for a return on investment, I don't think that there would be a problem starting one up. Just my opinion.