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     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...      presenting

Alaska Travel Photography

Alaska Travel Photography: Matanuska Peak near Palmer; seen from Wasilla; 6119 feet; A climb for the real mountain runner

............. Alaska Travel Photography: Clouds erupting from Matanuska Peak - Wasilla, AK
Matanuska Photos
©0769 Matanuska Sunset Panorama - Wasilla, Alaska
   ©0770 Clouds Erupting-
   Matanuska Peak
Alaska Travel Photography: Seward Alaska at the head of Resurrection Bay; Gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park Denali Photography: Wonder Lake in Denali National Park; Tundra foreground; Alaska Range
Alaska Travel Photography  ©0775 Seward, Alaska
   Kenai Fjords National Park
Denali Photography
©0774 Wonder Lake and the Alaskan Range Denali NP
 
Denali Photography: Caribou in Denali NP; Both sexes have antlers, the only deer family members to do so. Alaska Travel Photography: Aialik Glacier calving in Kenai Fjords National Park; Boats can be taken from Seward Denali Photography: Visible red, yellow and brown basalts & rhyolites give Polychrome Pass its name; Denali NP to Kantishna
Denali Photography
©0771 Caribou - Denali Park
   Dwarf Resin Bush and Willow
Alaska Travel Photography
©0783 Seeing Aialik Glacier Calve
   Kenai Fjords
Denali Photography
©0772 Polychrome Pass -
   Denali National Park
Alaska Travel Photography:Cook Inlet where Beluga whales travel; Portage Glacier and Chugach Mts in background Alaska Travel Photography: Nenana- Between Denali & Fairbanks on the Parks Highway Denali Photography: Denali NP shows mountains effected by glacial scouring (for Oregonians- just like Columbia Gorge); black spruce grow only 20Ft in the shallow tundra
Alaska Travel Photography
©0786 Cook Inlet - Chugach Mts -
   Portage Glacier
Alaska Travel Photography
©0782 Nenana Visitor Center
Denali Photography
©0787 Black Spruce - Glacial
    Scouring on Mountains
Alaska Pipeline: Aleyska is native for Alaska.  Visitor Center sign and pipeline Alaska pipeline curving across Tanana River in Big Delta

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

Musk Ox creates 500 pounds of Quivet yarn per year - softest yarn in world Sealions and Cormorants living in Kenai Fjords National Park Alaska Travel Photography: Exit Glacier NP within Harding ICe Field
Alaska Travel Photography
©0777 Musk Ox -
   Bison of the Tundra
Alaska Travel Photography
©0781 Living in Kenai Fjords -Sealions and Cormorants
Alaska Travel Photography
©0773 Exit Glacier National Park-
   Harding Ice Field
Alaska Travel Photography: Goldstream Valley named for Dredges and gold pan mines Dogsleds must practice during summer to head to Nome in Winter Susitna River near Hatcher Pass is fisherman's dream
Alaska Travel Photography
©0784 Miner's Cabin - Goldstream
   Valley
Denali Photography
©0789 Dogsled Summer Practice -
Kantishna Lodge
Alaska Travel Photography
©0788 Little Susitna River -
   Hatcher Pass

Practiced wrist action is necessary to pan for gold
   Panning for gold is a slow and tedious process.  See the tiny flecks at the top of the pan???

Alaska Travel Photography: Abundant Moose enjoying Chugach Mt scenery Black Bears are trumped by Grizzly bear but still look ominous Alaska Travel Photography: Bears have climbed tree for daily play Artist totem pole in Pioneer Park - Fairbanks Alaska
©0768 Moose-
 Chugach Mountains
©0785 Alaskan Black
    Bear
©0776 Bears Play-    AKWildlifeSanctuary ©0780 Fairbanks -
Pioneer Park Totem

 

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