Alaska is Just 15 Minutes from Anchorage

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Bear bacon?

Na, just red salmon going into a smoker/cooker. REALLY, it's too thick and non-uniform to make proper smoked fish, but I'm sure it will be good. It's always good. I've never had bad unless the fish is allowed to rot.

 

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I've had coffee here. We were flying north and the weather socked in at our destination (and alternate field), so we stopped for coffee and cookies. It's a beautiful spot.

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As you can see, night isn't really night at solar noon on winter solstice at Barrow..

 

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Trampoline on top of Flat Top for Solstice.

 

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More Tramp Stuff

 

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The shortest day, from UAF.

 

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Sunset this afternoon.

 

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Uzbekistan Airways?

 

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The low end of the food chain.

 

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Any idea why the bald eagles have congregated? I'm guessing some serious food source, but I never see more than one or two of them together.

 

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Any idea why the bald eagles have congregated? I'm guessing some serious food source, but I never see more than one or two of them together.

That pic is in Homer. The eagles get together in winter. They always do. Happens in Valdez and Haines, too.

I suppose you've never been in a place where there's a lot of eagles.

 

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"“We’re two hours from ocean fishing in Valdez and all your hunting is right here, so it’s a great place to live,” he said. “But the utility costs just kill businesses here.”"

He forgot to mention that winters are cold as fuckall.

 

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"“We’re two hours from ocean fishing in Valdez and all your hunting is right here, so it’s a great place to live,” he said. “But the utility costs just kill businesses here.”"

He forgot to mention that winters are cold as fuckall.

...and that's exactly what the CO-2 Klimate Krazies are trying to impose on everybody else.




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...and that's exactly what the CO-2 Klimate Krazies are trying to impose on everybody else.




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Vote Nuclear!

 

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More BS. Yada, yada, yada.

 

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That pic is in Homer. The eagles get together in winter. They always do. Happens in Valdez and Haines, too.

I suppose you've never been in a place where there's a lot of eagles.

Not like that, for sure. Thx.

 

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Tis the season.

 

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Your lake freezes over and you can skate on it?

That's nice.

 

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That's beautiful, a humongous skating rink.

 

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That's beautiful, a humongous skating rink.

The frozen lake at the toe of Grewingk Glacier across Kachemak Bay from Homer.

 

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