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Icicle Creek

  • Llamas

Alana's First Week

  • Tiny Fingers

McKinley For The Afternoon: April 16, 2005

  • Fine Dining At The Latitude 62
    Ever the adventure-seekers they are, my parents wanted to take an afternoon off of seeing Ari to go see a little bit of Alaska. My wonderfully generous friend Chris Hodel agreed to take us up for a little flight. We flew about 45 minutes in his 206 up to the Mt. McKinley area, spent 30 minutes flying around, then stopped in Talkeetna for a walk and dinner at the Latitude 62 Restaurant. The flight back to town was only about 35 minutes. We flew a few hundred feet above the river for the first half of it, then climbed into the proper airspace before entering the pattern to land at Merrill Field.

Iditarod 2005

  • Different Dogs

Ari's Talkeetna Visit

  • Dsc_1717

Ari's First Bush Flight

  • Ari Ready for Takeoff...

Eddie & Jen's Wedding Weekend, San Francisco

  • Father & Bride Approaching The Hupa
    Eddie & Jen's Wedding Weekend was special in many ways: seeing a dear friend formalize the best decision of his life, bringing Ari to the town where Yael and I met, and most of all, catching up with dear friends.

God's Gym

  • Bruce and Polenka

Raven

Rust's Air to Air

  • Dsc_2638

Ari's First Week

  • Lois & Baby

Signs of Alaska

  • Copyright Bob Kaufman

Ari's Bris

  • Ari's First Visit Restaurant Visit

Lake George

  • Historic Picture of Knik Glacier Gorge

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Portage Lake In Winter

PortagelakeinwinterI'm probably one of the few people who has high definition footage of a hockey game in front of a glacier!

For the past several weeks, the ice skating on lakes throughout Portageglacierhockeygame Southcentral Alaska has been superb (cold snap with no fresh snow). For the first time in 5 years, Portage Lake has set up for ice skating. I went down last weekend, and there was just a handful of us.

PortageglaciericeskatingBut word's gotten out! Today, it was a virtual circus down there. There were literally hundreds of Alaskans frolicking on the glass-clear ice. It's about 4 miles across the lake to the glacier. I dragged about 30 pounds of camera gear across Portageglacier_1on Ari's sled.

When I got there, I was surprised to see dozens of people milling about in front of the face of the glacier, Moms pushing their toddlers across the ice on chairs, and most amazing, a full-fledged hockey game!

PortagelakeakThis has to be one of the most beautiful settings on earth to ice skate. Frozen waterfalls ribbons drape down steep cliffs, all the way down to the lake ice. Snowy mountains and groaning glaciers lie in the distance. And the surface of the ice is as smooth as if Mother Nature ran a Zamboni across it.

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Comments

Alaska is one of the beautiful place in the world.Especially in winter season it is very joyful to skate.And it is very happy to stand in front of the glaciers

Posted by: lexie | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 03:27 AM

Alaska is one of the beautiful place in the world.Especially in winter season it is very joyful to skate.And it is very happy to stand in front of the glaciers.
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Posted by: lexie961 | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 03:29 AM

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