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July 15, 2010

  • Girl, 3, floats Yukon River

    READY TO ROCK? — A Fairbanks girl rests before embarking on another 25-mile stretch of Yukon River. (…)

July 13, 2010

July 3, 2010

  • On the big river

     

    Details after they occur. Better pack the car. Chicken for dinner, Eagle by 10!

June 21, 2010

  • Chena Dome Solstice thru-hike

    The Chena Dome trail is 30 miles of dome, dip, dome, dip until you've summited about 15 hills, the largest of which is 4,400 foot Chena Dome. (…)

June 12, 2010

June 5, 2010

  • Farthest north

    Is the title of a great book by Nansen. I got the farthest north I've ever been while visiting Barrow. (…)

June 2, 2010

  • Barrow

    It's breakup in America's farthest north town. Still chilly enough for there to be plenty of snow, and sea ice is still cemented to shore more than one mile thick along the coast. (…)

May 29, 2010

  • flying through a mushroom cloud

    Just flew from Barrow to Fairbanks on Alaska Airlines. A giant smoke plume was wafting up from around Hess Creek, just south of the Yukon. My GPS told me the location (don't tell the stewardess). (…)

May 27, 2010

  • Way Too Far North

    Was the name of a fun band that played summer nights in Dawson City. Many moons have arced through the sky since those guys headlined at the Pit. (…)

May 18, 2010

  • out the window, 8

    When covered with the last bit of rotting ice, the Copper River looks like the dying glacier it once was.

May 12, 2010

May 10, 2010

May 9, 2010

May 6, 2010

May 3, 2010

May 1, 2010

  • out the window, 3

    The birth of another summer. Where Paxson Lake turns into the Gulkana River.

April 30, 2010

April 29, 2010

April 25, 2010

  • Travels with Kenji — Igiugig

     

    As part of about 3,000 miles of air travel in a week, we landed in Igiugig, on the vast Iliamna Lake.

     

    Lots of migrating birds were moving through, but no swallows yet. (…)

April 24, 2010

  • Travels with Kenji — Koliganek

    We dropped into Koliganek, on the lovely Nushagak River, so Kenji could download his permafrost temperature sensors and speak with students. (…)

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