Ross St. John Joins Alaska Crane
Ross St. John has joined the team at Alaska Crane as the Anchorage Operations Manager. St. John previously held positions as sales manager and flight scheduler for Northern Air Cargo and as a dispatcher for Lynden Transport and charter operations manager at Lynden Air Cargo. Also a Veteran, St. John served as a reconnaissance marine in the United States Marine Corps with two deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 and 2008.
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August 2026
In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.