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Alaska and Washington, Sept. 2012 part I

Interrupting the Mexico photos, we now bring you a week-long trip in two stages: several days driving all over Alaska, and several in Washington. This first batch is the flight to Anchorage, and an attempt to drive the Dalton Highway all the way up to the Arctic Ocean at Deadhorse. How far will we make it? Fjords of British Columbia, as seen from a Seattle to Anchorage flight. Typical Dalton [...]

By |2018-01-13T18:48:41-05:00October 3rd, 2012|Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Weather|3 Comments

northern Canada Sept ’11 part III

And here is the rest of day 2 in Alberta and Northwest Territories… the sunset and the northern lights! Sunset, over one of Canada’s innumerable boreal forests. A pair of otters. If anyone wonders why I spend so much time between blog posts… it’s the sheer quantity of photos I have to process. I took about 200 just of these otters! (One came out.) Full moon, perched on top of [...]

By |2018-01-13T20:03:57-05:00December 5th, 2011|Alberta, Northwest Territories, Weather|4 Comments

northern Canada Sept ’11 part II

A day spent in Northwest Territories … here’s just the first half, because I took 1560 photos that day, so I am breaking it in two. No northern lights in this batch; you can all go home now. Painted skies at dawn. A seagull at the Mackenzie River ferry. Yep, they do have them even thousands of miles from the nearest sea. Some yellow and some evergreens. […]

By |2018-01-13T20:21:51-05:00October 19th, 2011|Alberta, Northwest Territories, Weather|1 Comment

northern Canada Sept ’11 part I

And here we start three days of photos from Alberta and Northwest Territories. I flew into Edmonton for the weekend (Friday-Sunday) of September 9th, as that is one of two annual peaks for the northern lights. Did I see the northern lights? In the interest of maintaining suspense, I’m not going to say quite yet. Sunset. Usually shooting directly into the sun is a bad idea. Sometimes it isn’t. The [...]

By |2018-01-13T20:23:13-05:00October 3rd, 2011|Alberta, Northwest Territories, Weather|8 Comments

Alaska Highway VII

the last Alaska Highway batch, which contains no actual Alaska Highway – and, in fact, very little Canada. We had about 24 hours before we needed to be at the airport, so we spent some time exploring eastern Washington, Idaho, and even a little bit of Montana. What do we have here? An original I-90 trailblazer, complete with green sign back. We found a few of these in Spokane, and [...]

Alaska Highway VI

day 7 of the Alaska highway trip, where we finally cross the Rockies, and are promptly greeted with even more snow than before. Dawn. The roads have been plowed. We head east on the Yellowhead Highway into Alberta. This could be a problem. Since 93 through Jasper National Park in Alberta is a park route, it is closed to commercial traffic, and therefore not plowed particularly frequently. [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:12:20-05:00May 25th, 2010|Alberta, British Columbia|1 Comment

Alaska Highway V

The sixth day of the Alaska Highway trip, where we see the Alaska Highway for the last time, and head down the Cassiar Highway – route 37 in Yukon and British Columbia. We make a brief stop in Hyder, Alaska, just to say that we’ve been there, and then head east on the Yellowhead Highway and attempt to cross into Alberta. However, we’re nearly eaten alive by that snowstorm that’s [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:13:03-05:00May 17th, 2010|Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon|7 Comments

Alaska Highway IV

the fourth fifth day of our trip. The fourth day was spend snowed in in sunny East Anchorage, where 16 inches fell overnight. Remember that storm that we escaped in the mountains to get to Anchorage? Well, it found us. However, Anchorage has the best snowplow routine I’ve ever seen, and we could’ve gotten out of there by noon, had we not been zonked. We waited ’til about 6 the [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:13:42-05:00May 14th, 2010|Alaska, U. S. Highways, Yukon|4 Comments

Alaska Highway III

the third day of our trip, on which we actually cross into Alaska, and complete the Alaska Highway. Dawn in Yukon. Just past Haines Junction, we hit the final stretch of Alaska Highway. Close-up of distant purple mountains over Destruction Bay. Yes, that is what it is called! It was named by the troops who were building the road in 1942, and had the wind blow away their new structures. [...]

By |2018-01-17T09:12:47-05:00May 9th, 2010|Alaska, U. S. Highways, Yukon|1 Comment

Alaska Highway II

Continuing northward … and, on this day, greatly westward, as that is the way to get from Dawson to Delta Junction, which is the official end of the Alaska Highway. This batch of photos includes plenty of British Columbia and even some Yukon. About 70 photos total! Dawson Creek at dawn. This monument is at the intersection (BC-49 and BC-2, actually) where the Alaska Highway officially begins. 2 ends at [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:15:22-05:00May 7th, 2010|British Columbia, Yukon|5 Comments
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