[2] The pair were flying from Fairbanks to Barrow (modern-day Utqiaġvik) when they encountered fog and low visibility.

They spent some time with a small party of Alaska Natives and received directions for the short distance remaining to Barrow.

The design was essentially two cubes, the smaller atop the larger, with a pink granite memorial marker quarried near the Rogers family home in Claremore, Oklahoma.

It was built by then 72-year-old Jesse Stubbs (November 30, 1879 – March 14, 1960), who claimed to be a childhood friend of Rogers and arrived in Anchorage in summer 1953 intending to walk from there to Barrow, only getting as far as Fairbanks where he, and his dog Quacco, caught a plane flight for the remainder of the journey.

The Stubbs monument memorializes not only Rogers and Post, but also the Alaskan veterans of World War II.