By mid-May in Fairbanks, it was easy to stay out past midnight. I spent the spring walking, chasing the first flowers and the late light. For years, I did that alone and called it peace. This year, less so. New post on the walks, the season, and the company.
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I'm still sifting through 3 days of photos from hiking in the Alaska Range, but this had to be one of the coolest glacier caves I've explored yet, so I had to share it first.
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Two juvenile bald eagles fighting over a salmon at the Solomon Gulch Hatchery in Valdez, Alaska. Juveniles lack the white head and tail of adults and don't develop the white plumage until around five years old.
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Aurora borealis with a bit of corona in the upper bands - Taken in late February of 2023
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Pincushion Plant (Diapensia obovata) near the headwaters of Nome Creek in the White Mountain National Recreation Area last Saturday.
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Evening light on the Alaska Range over the Black Rapids Glacier, late June. The arc of rocks in the foreground snow is a medial moraine, debris carried on the glacier surface where two ice flows merge.
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Poisonous little buttercup, prairie pasqueflower (Pulsatilla nuttalliana), photographed at the Tatlanika Boulders near Healy, Alaska, on Saturday. One of the earliest wildflowers in interior Alaska, and a reliable colonizer of post-fire sites
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Just got back and showered after a gorgeous weekend backpacking in the still very snowy White Mountains. Back to work early tomorrow, but I’ll share some more photos soon.
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The light is back. The snow is gone in town, and is quickly disappearing in the mountains. I've been working long days through the spring, banking the hours
The prairie pasqueflower (Pulsatilla nuttalliana or Anemone patens subsp. multifida) is an early-season purple-flowering perennial found across much of Alaska, Canada, and the central US. It is consid...
