Thursday, October 09, 2008
Beautiful Brooks Range
Quent took this super beautiful picture of the Brooks Range!
The fall colors of the tundra were beautiful!
The pipeline...again.
Mile 275
Christina & Quent with Galbraith Lake in the background.
Haha! Now we are just being funny!
All of us with the very dirty truck and beautiful mountains in the background. This was just before we turned south on the highway heading to Fairbanks.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Wiseman, Frost and & Coldfoot
This is the old post office in Wiseman, Alaska. It's also a good example of why it's not always good to build on permafrost.
Frost on our Nalgene bottle showing that the temperatures were quite low that night.
Good ole Coldfoot. We were thrilled to take showers and to be clean again!
Neat old building in Coldfoot.
Gold Dredge 1a
On our way down to Fairbanks we stopped at the Gold Dredge No. 8 and went on a tour of the dredge. The tour had these really corny videos as part of the tour, but our tour guide seemed very knowledgable.
I like the part about the shorts!
I like the part about the shorts!
Christina spied a flower...
And some more flowers.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Chicken *bawk* *bawk*
Haha!
I just had to have a picture of us in front of the mercantile. It's one of those tourist things, you know?
Tisha's Place
When we first moved to Alaska, my (Christina's) dad told me about a book called Tisha. It's about a teacher in Chicken who taught native students. It's a true story and I really liked it. I was really excited to visit Chicken because of this. When we were at the restaurant, I asked the owner of the store/restaurant/bar if she knew where the school house was. She said that it on private propery, but the owner gave tours once a day. This is a picture of the cabin. I'm not exactly sure what building is the orginal cabin that was the school house, but it's one of these.
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