creation
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, […]
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
I’ve seen the aurora borealis several times since moving to Fairbanks, but nothing like this.
I routinely check the UAF Aurora Forecast at night, and right around midnight as February 29th, 2008 rolled over into March, the forecast hit a level I haven’t seen it at before: HEAVY+. I looked out my one tiny north-facing […]
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