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Plaited river, Polychrome Pass, Alaska Range, Central Alaska, in summer

Local wits will tell you: Alaska has two seasons -- July and winter. Here, the hard, permanently frozen ground causes river water to flow shallowly and to disperse into many criss-crossing channels, like liquid flowing over a tin tray. From a slide.

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Uploaded on October 19, 2023