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In this photo, you see almost the entire town of Glennallen Alaska. The building to the left houses our supermarket, State Police Department, and a bank. In the center is another bank, with a tiny one room grey colored shed behind it, that we call our DMV. Most of the communities' activities are centered around this tiny downtown area.
When I captured this photo, the temperature was only 12 degrees below zero. This morning, Glennallen has a reading of 39 F. degrees below zero. Spring can't come soon enough this year.
in the south of the country,
The glaciers of the national park are of scientific importance, as they now mark the retreat of a smaller ice age 4000 years ago.
When Captain George Vancouver explored the region in 1794, the bay was almost completely filled with ice from the glaciers. Several kilometers wide, over 1000 m high.
The world's largest seaplane airport near the International Airport. It is extremely important because many parts of Alaska can only be reached by plane. In summer, an enormous number of take-offs and landings take place here every day. Up to 800 were mentioned.
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Der größte Wasserflugzeugflughafen der Welt liegt in der Nähe des Internationalen Flughafens. Er ist äußerst wichtig, da viele Teile Alaskas nur mit dem Flugzeug zu erreichen sind. Im Sommer findet hier täglich eine enorme Anzahl von Starts und Landungen statt. Bis zu 800 wurden genannt.
Retomamos la edición de paisaje de Alaska, una montaña de colores la cual me recuerda a Lammanalaugar en Islandia.
This was taken at a place where we have explored somewhat, but have much more to find. Off in the distance, there is a trail that winds over a hill. When my wife and I find a trail we have never been on before, we are not happy until we find where the trail leads. We went down this trail to a creek a couple years ago, past the creek, it went up and over a hill, the one you see in this photo. There was fresh snow on the ground from the morning and in the snow were grizzly bear tracks bigger than we have ever seen before. We decided on this day to err on the side of caution and turned back towards the direction we came. We have encountered bears before and always have had a safe outcome, but this bear was in a wooded valley, huge, and we had no idea where he was. So maybe this fall, we will find where the trail leads.
Me encuentro en un pequeño montículo desde donde tengo visión al Motor home donde se encuentra el compi, ha dejado de lloviznar y yo, salgo trípode incluido para inmortalizar el momento ya que la luz es muy buena, tras de mí hay el bosque y la sensación es un poco tensa ya que hay un silencio extremo...
Disfruto del momento y me largo rápido a zona segura.
Trípode.
Aialik Peninsula in Kenai Fjords National Park, seen on a day cruise from Seward, Alaska.
Explored August 22, 2021 at #9. Thanks for all your faves and comments, it may take me a bit of time to respond.
Alaska's beauty, a treasure untold, a hiker's paradise, a sight to behold, with every step, a new adventure found, in Alaska's wilderness, where dreams abound.
Here is an Alaska Railroad train looking more like a big city urban commuter train than the mountain climbing wilderness railroad people normally think of!
This is train 215W, the Grandview Cruise Train loading passengers at the Bill Sheffield Alaska Railroad Depot located at Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport depot which opened in 2003. A typical Alaskan pork barrel boondoggle, while modern and gorgeous it has never lived up to its potential as told here: www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/anchorage-airport-train-d...
One everyone is aboard the 'low level dome cars' the train will depart out the branch and hang a right at the wye and enter the mainline at CP 1102 to head south on a spectacular journey to Seward. This Sunday special was operated exclusively for Holland America lines and everyone aboard is destined to a cruise ship docked at tidewater at the head of Resurrection Bay.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday July 13, 2008
This is what passes for "high sun" a day after winter solstice in the wilds of the Last Frontier. It's about 1:30 PM here at Broad Pass and high peaks of the Alaska Range to the west are bathed in Alpenglow. However, despite the wide expanse of the aptly named gap in the mountains, down here the sun would never get high enough to bask the railroad in light so all our shooting for the day was in perpetual shadows.
Alaska Railroad GP38-2 2005 and GP40-2 3005 are shoving Jordan Spreader number 9 at MP 305.4 on the ARRC mainline about to duck under the new Parks Highway overpass which replaced a dangerous grade crossing only a couple years before.
This was a memorable day spent trackside with my best friend only eight days before I'd leave Alaska on a cross continent adventure by road and ferry to begin my new career in Boston. What a way to end a decade in the great white north!
If you want to read more about this spectacular day and see more images check out fellow Flickr member Frank Keller's fabulous article and photography in the January 2020 issue of Railfan and Railroad Magazine.
Broad Pass, Alaska
Friday December 22, 2017
On our journey back to Fairbanks we ran into this guy playing peek-a-boo at the Yukon-Alaska border near Tetlin Alaska.
Muddy glacier silt flats make interesting designs in the landscape in Alaska. The turquoise lakes you see are colored by glacial silt suspended in the water.
Alaska Oil Pipeline
Power to the people! This is the world famous Alaska oil pipeline.
I caught up with it in Fairbanks, thanks to our Princess Cruise tour guide.
So how do you make a 48-inch diameter pipe look interesting? I opted for shadows since there were no babes close by.
Those tuning fork thingies are radiators that keep the heat from melting the permafrost.
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Autumn in Alaska is spectacular. Everyone should have the chance to experience it at least once.
Wild berries on the mountain side reflect in the tiny wilderness pond - while seven swans, and a lot of ducks, feed and play in the water in the middle ground of this photo.
An Alaska whale that came up to the water surface very close to our tour boat. It actually splashed everyone on our boat. It was an amazing experience but this was one of the only photos that I got that was worth sharing. Unfortunately, the lighting was very harsh. I took this photo in Alaska on 5/9/23.
I found a very vibrant red patch of bog blueberries on my drive from Fairbanks to Anchorage. This is an 8-photo panoramic stitch of a small section of Broad Pass, near Cantwell, Alaska.
De camino al glaciar Exit, estamos solos y el silencio solo lo rompe el curso del agua, en el PK donde dejas el coche hay el parte de vista de osos, aquí he aprendido a cantar alto, haha.
Llevo una pulsera con cascabeles que se mueven solos, haha.
Trípode.