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The Alaska pics are up at http://www.cyphertext.net/images/Erato/Groups/trips/Alaska-2004/.
Preview images are download friendly, full images aren't. If you have to ask about the private images, they aren't for you. As usual, some won't be able to reach cyphertext. As usual, I plan on doing something about this Real Soon Now.
Updated: The following links now point to midgard.org.
Random wackiness:
Look, I really was in Alaska!
This is pretty much what the Far North looks like. Dead and dying ugly alpine trees in front of amazingly pretty mountains. Sometimes it looks like this amazing sunset, too. (Sunsets aren't supposed to photograph that well!)
Alaska is full of really fun places to buy gas, like this combination convenience store/Radio Shack. Yes, the building is composed of linked portables.
How could I resist? The northernmost Denny's in the world -- they had a picture inside of a moose wandering around their parking lot.
I present: rugged, outdoor Fishy! (I think he looks like a demented fratboy.)
Making hot chocolate. At the Arctic Circle. Barefoot. (My feet were not bare, for the record. But what fun is a trip like this if your travelling companion is completely sane?)
Fauna:
A little bitty Stone Sheep kid, found next to Muncho Lake in BC.
One of 10 bears we saw. All on the way back down, and all looked pretty young. Is this the time of year that last year's cubs get kicked out of the nest?
Mooses come walking up over the hill. Mooses come walking. They rarely stand still. When mooses come walking, they walk where they will. And mooses come walking up over the hill.
There were lots of caribou, but none let us get very close.
We saw bald eagles and bald eagles fighting like seagulls.
Various cities, from south to north:
William's Lake, BC: Would you buy an RV here?
Quesnel, BC. What says 'quality sushi' better than an old Pizza Hut building?
Chetwynd, BC. An ugly little logging town good for two cheap jokes:
Where do you buy the opiate of the masses?
No flavor text needed
Whittier, AK. Weirdest town EVAH:
Entering the tunnel. The single lane, bi-directional, car and train tunnel.
Tiny little town of 300, most everyone lives in this building.
There is also an abandoned proto-arcology for 1200, ruined in the '64 earthquake.
The rest of the town is pretty much a parking lot.
Fairbanks, AK:
A prominent building at the university. They are obviously researching dangerous beam weapon technology. We decided that explained why they study the aurora so much -- with a good understanding of using the Earth's magnetic field to distort and guide high energy particles, they could rain down firey destruction on any part of the planet.
Roadsign fun:
Speed limit enforced by daguerreotype.
SCA camping, 23 kilometers.
Caution -- explosive sheep ahead
A fed bear is a dead bear -- check out the pacman guy being attacked
There is an airstrip right next to the Dalton Highway right after the Yukon River crossing. It gets priority. When the airstrip is in use, this barricade blocks road traffic.
More Dalton fun: how desolate is this?
BC is filled with these trucks entering road ahead signs. But I kept looking at them and thinking single slit experiment ahead -- trucks exibiting wave and particle properties for next 2 kilometers. Or if you look at it sideways, warning -- trucks falling from the sky ahead.
Preview images are download friendly, full images aren't. If you have to ask about the private images, they aren't for you. As usual, some won't be able to reach cyphertext. As usual, I plan on doing something about this Real Soon Now.
Updated: The following links now point to midgard.org.
Random wackiness:
Look, I really was in Alaska!
This is pretty much what the Far North looks like. Dead and dying ugly alpine trees in front of amazingly pretty mountains. Sometimes it looks like this amazing sunset, too. (Sunsets aren't supposed to photograph that well!)
Alaska is full of really fun places to buy gas, like this combination convenience store/Radio Shack. Yes, the building is composed of linked portables.
How could I resist? The northernmost Denny's in the world -- they had a picture inside of a moose wandering around their parking lot.
I present: rugged, outdoor Fishy! (I think he looks like a demented fratboy.)
Making hot chocolate. At the Arctic Circle. Barefoot. (My feet were not bare, for the record. But what fun is a trip like this if your travelling companion is completely sane?)
Fauna:
A little bitty Stone Sheep kid, found next to Muncho Lake in BC.
One of 10 bears we saw. All on the way back down, and all looked pretty young. Is this the time of year that last year's cubs get kicked out of the nest?
Mooses come walking up over the hill. Mooses come walking. They rarely stand still. When mooses come walking, they walk where they will. And mooses come walking up over the hill.
There were lots of caribou, but none let us get very close.
We saw bald eagles and bald eagles fighting like seagulls.
Various cities, from south to north:
William's Lake, BC: Would you buy an RV here?
Quesnel, BC. What says 'quality sushi' better than an old Pizza Hut building?
Chetwynd, BC. An ugly little logging town good for two cheap jokes:
Where do you buy the opiate of the masses?
No flavor text needed
Whittier, AK. Weirdest town EVAH:
Entering the tunnel. The single lane, bi-directional, car and train tunnel.
Tiny little town of 300, most everyone lives in this building.
There is also an abandoned proto-arcology for 1200, ruined in the '64 earthquake.
The rest of the town is pretty much a parking lot.
Fairbanks, AK:
A prominent building at the university. They are obviously researching dangerous beam weapon technology. We decided that explained why they study the aurora so much -- with a good understanding of using the Earth's magnetic field to distort and guide high energy particles, they could rain down firey destruction on any part of the planet.
Roadsign fun:
Speed limit enforced by daguerreotype.
SCA camping, 23 kilometers.
Caution -- explosive sheep ahead
A fed bear is a dead bear -- check out the pacman guy being attacked
There is an airstrip right next to the Dalton Highway right after the Yukon River crossing. It gets priority. When the airstrip is in use, this barricade blocks road traffic.
More Dalton fun: how desolate is this?
BC is filled with these trucks entering road ahead signs. But I kept looking at them and thinking single slit experiment ahead -- trucks exibiting wave and particle properties for next 2 kilometers. Or if you look at it sideways, warning -- trucks falling from the sky ahead.
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