Travelling again tomorrow. I'll hopefully be backposting Wednesday.

Lighthouse at Point Reyes. This is a scan from a slide. Kodachrome 64, Minolta XG-1

The Anchorage schools held a cross-country running 'jamboree' yesterday at Russian Jack Park. It was a nice day (for a change) and my daughter was running in the 3rd & 4th grade girls mile run. So I thought I'd post some photos of yesterday's events.

My daughter getting ready to run her mile at yesterday's cross-country jamboree.

The start of the 3rd & 4th grade girls run at yesterday's cross-country jamboree.

Finishing her mile run at the cross-country jamboree

After finishing her mile run

Naknek Lake, Canon S500

Anchorage International Airport, Canon S500

Unalakleet, last week before the big storm decended. Canon S500

Resurrection Bay, Minolta XG-1

This was taken at Brooks Camp two weeks ago. The building in the background is the ranger station. This guy was just on his way to the lake and wasn't too concerned about us. Still, this is about as close as I want to be. Canon S500.

Here's a photo from just moments before, when I spotted him on the knoll, by the time I took this, he dissapeared in the grass. It's amazing how something so big can be so silent and unobtrusive.

Above are two photos taken in Elim. It was so windy and rainy that I didn't take too many photos. Some of the photos blurred because I couldn't hold the camera still in the wind gusts.

Looking down the bar at the Board of Trade Saloon, Nome.

A Cessna Caravan on a scheduled stop to Selawik. These are great aircraft. We later flew another Caravan form Selawik straight to Nome.

While Iwas waiting at the airstrip, this barge came upriver to unload some equipment This is the only way materiel that is too heavy or bulky to fly in gets out here. This barge was unloading some equipment for a construction project for the FAA. Typically, it'll sit on solid ground (near the airstrip) until the ground freezes enough to support the weight of the equipment and then the drill rig will drill the holes for the piling foundation. One of the crew told me that they came up on this barge from Seattle specifically to deliver this equipment, with stops in Anchorage and Nome. They then planned to go to Kotzebue and St. Lawrence Island before heading home. He said it's pretty tough, but I wouldn't want to be on it in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska in bad weather, but that's just me.

Kids playing after school. If you're wondering what the metal piping is, it's a surface run sewer system in arctic pipe. This is necessary because of the permafrost. That's also why the structures are off of the ground.

This was posted in the store in Selawik, so no moaning about how much you have to pay for gas.