Season 3 opens with 6,000 loads of freight to move in just 12 weeks to the oil camps of Alaska's North Slope. The 400 plus miles stretch from Fairbanks to the remote outpost of Deadhorse, and is fraught with harrowing danger from steep mountain ice, to frozen tundra and the treacherous ice roads of the Arctic Ocean.
Though expecting (and to some degree getting) something pretty cheesy, Ice Road Truckers' cast and their bravery, foolhardiness, skill, determination and colorful personalities won me over as much as the incredible, treacherous job they do.
"Ice Road Truckers," which would have made an excellent and compelling documentary, fails as a long-run series because it chooses to try to distract us from what makes it most unique - it's alien and lifeless environment.
