Alaska Travel Photography

Alaskan Pictures: Glaciers Musk Ox Gold

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Alaskan Travel Photography Matanuska Photos ©0769 Matanuska Sunset Panorama - Wasilla, Alaska		©0770 Clouds Erupting Matanuska Peak


Alaska Travel Photos ©0775 Seward, Alaska Kenai Fjords National Park	Denali Photography Denali National Park ©0774 Wonder Lake and the Alaskan Range


Denali Photography ©0771 Caribou - Denali Park - Dwarf Resin Bush and Willow	Alaska Photography ©0783 Seeing Aialik Glacier Calve Kenai Fjords	Denali Photography ©0772 Polychrome Pass Denali National Park

Alaska Photography ©0786 Cook Inlet - Chugach Mts - Portage Glacier	Fairbanks Alaska Alaska Travel Photography ©0782 Nenana Visitor Center	Denali Photography ©0787 Black Spruce - Glacial Scouring on Mountains
		The Alaska Pipeline crosses permafrost on stilts or travels buried in typical earth; Prudhoe Bay to Valdez is 350 miles. There are 12 pumping stations enroute that reenergize the oil to keep it flowing. A PIG is a scraper sent from 1 station to the next to clean the inner sides of the pipe.
Alaska Pipeline Photos ©0778 Aleyska Pipeline Visitor Center Sign	Alaska Pipeline Photos ©0779 Big Delta - Alaska Pipeline Crosses Tanana River

Alaska Travel Photography ©0777 Musk Ox - Bison of the Tundra	Alaska Photography ©0781 Living in Kenai Fjords -Sealions and Cormorants	Alaska Photography ©0773 Exit Glacier NP- Harding Ice Field

Alaska Photography ©0784 Miner's Cabin - Goldstream Valley	Denali Photography ©0789 Dogsled Summer Practice - Kantishna Lodge	Alaska Photography ©0788 Little Susitna River - Hatcher Pass

Panning for gold is a slow and tedious process. See the tiny flecks at the top of the pan???
	©0768 Moose- Chugach Mountains	©0785 Alaskan Black Bear	©0776 Bears Play Alaskan Wildlife Sanctuary	©0780 Fairbanks - Pioneer Park Totem

This Gallery is an inquisitive look at Alaska.
      Why, you ask, is Alaska's Moose jewelry made of poo? Because Moose digestion is so efficient that there are NO nutrients left in the waste! So Moose poo is dried, layered, painted and worn for decoration.
       Why, you ask, is The Little Susitna River (near Hatcher Pass) one of the highest public use areas in all of Alaska? Silver, Chum, Pink, and Sockeye Salmon go up the clean, swift river to spawn in such volume that this becomes a fisherman's paradise.
       Where else can you see a Matanuska Sunset in Wasilla, the Aialik Glacier Calving from a kayak in the Kenai Fjords AND a swan slipping across Wonder Lake in Denali Park? Whether you follow guidance of the folks in the Nenana Visitor Center or just wander down Glenn Highway to see what you can see...you may catch a glimpse of Clouds Erupting on Matanuska Peak or muse at the artistic rendering of a Totem near Fairbanks.
        The fall colors in Denali Park paint a delicate pastel of Caribou eating Dwarf resin bush and willow; Polychrome Pass appears ethereal as the sun heads home.   In Alaska, it's a seemingly everyday occurrence...to see a Musk Ox or a Black Bear or the small, yet mature, Black Spruce standing fortress to the mountains in the background. It is certainly NOT an everyday experience for the visitor!
        The current economy of Alaska is bolstered by tourism in the Port of Seward and Cook Inlet's Turn again Arm, as well as oil traveling through the Aleyska Pipeline. One of the Alaska Pipeline photos show the pipe curving its way through Big Delta over the Tanana River. What a change from the good old days of panning for gold in Goldstream Valley (Fox) and living in a Gold Miner's Cabin.      Alaska may be cold and dark:
          so cold that at -50 degrees the moisture in the air freezes into crystals of thick fog
          so dark that a car's headlights bounce off these crystals blinding the driver
     But it is so beautiful...

Paul and Marilyn Peck
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Last Updated 5-9-2012