On February 9th, I went downtown to see the start of the annual Yukon Quest dogsled race. It’s a trek through a thousand miles of wilderness in the dead of the Arctic winter, from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, Canada.
It was a very cold morning in downtown Fairbanks, in the -30s.

Still, […]

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Back in January, during one of this winter’s two biggest cold snaps, I drove around and took some pictures.

This polar bear ice sculpture is UAF’s greeter:

Tags: extreme cold, fairbanks, ice fog, ice sculpture, smog, UAF

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