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This page begins, as stated at the bottom of Page 2, at 11:05 AM on June 5th at Eagle Summit. Keep in mind that this was only June 5th and the elevation was around 3,600 feet so there was not a great deal in bloom yet, and we stayed at Eagle Summit for only a couple of hours and then went back down to Twelvemile Summit and spent the majority of the afternoon hiking there on the Pinnell Mountain Trail. We spent the night in our pickup canopy there and in Row 17 you can find a shot of the moon at 1:40 AM. We finish the Eagle Summit and Twelvemile Summit adventure at Row 19. Row 20 begins an adventure to Angel Rocks. The Angel Rocks trail begins at mile 48.9 on the Chena Hot Springs Road. This page ends part way through that adventure and the adventure concludes on Page 4. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| June 5th Continues from Page 2 (at 11:05 AM) |
Now we have left Twelvemile Summit and continued on to Eagle Summit. The first shot in this row is Ranunculus nivalis. The second and third shots are both unknown plants.
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The first shot in this row is another Ranunculus nivalis. The second shot is a Lagotis minor and the third shot is a Tephroseris kjellmanii.
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In this row are shots of Tephroseris kjellmanii, Pedicularis lanata, and Cardamine purpurea.
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Here is another example of Cardamine purpurea and then two more examples of Tephroseris kjellmanii.
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In the first shot in this row you can find four examples of Pedicularis lanata. The second shot shows a Silene acaulis, but not yet blooming (you'll see this in bloom on Page 4). The third shot is another example of Cardamine purpurea.
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In this row are two separate two-shot panoramic images (first and third position). The center photo shows a beautiful Pedicularis lanata.
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In first position here is a Gagea serotina and in second position is another Pedicularis lanata. There just were not that many things in bloom here at Eagle Summit (~3,600 feet elevation) yet so we made the decision to go back down to Twelvemile Summit (~3,200 feet elevation), where there were many more species in bloom. On our way back down to Twelvemile Summit we stopped and took some shots of this amazingly blue ice at North Fork Twelvemile Creek. In this shot, Kazuya managed to capture a bird flying by too.
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Here is one more shot of the amazingly blue ice at North Fork Twelvemile Creek. The second photo is of some kind of tiny Willow, but the precise species is unknown to us. The third shot shows the lower part of the Pinnell Mountain Trail from the Twelvemile Summit end. We hiked a bit over a mile up this trail before we ran out of time and felt that we should head back.
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Here are three more shots taken as we hiked on the Pinnell Mountain Trail. The outlined area of the center shot shows what is included in the third shot. In the third shot, that's our rig down there.
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In first position here is another shot of that unknown species of Willow. The second shot shows some beautiful blue sky, some scenery and Daniel. The third image is once again, 3 Tone-Mapped photos taken at different exposures.
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In first and second position in this row are shots of Gentiana glauca, which we will show you in full bloom on Page 5. The third shot is a Petasites frigidus in full bloom.
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In first position in this row is a shot of Diapensia lapponica ssp. obovata. In second position are some amazingly colored Kalmia procumbens flowers and in third position is a scenery shot.
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Here are some Anemone narcissiflora flowers and then a shot of a Ptarmigan. The third shot shows Kazuya shooting the Ptarmigan with his camera. The Ptarmigan is outlined in yellow.
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Here is a final Ptarmigan shot and then two scenery shots.
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Here is another example of Kalmia procumbens in first position. In second position is a very hairy unknown plant. In third position is a 2-shot panoramic image showing scenery.
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First there is a scenery shot showing Daniel moving across the landscape. In the center is a 3-shot panorama of scenery at about the point where we decided to turn back to our rig because it was getting to be kind of late (4:11 PM) and we were also running out of energy. The third shot was taken at 9:47 PM, after we'd cooked and eaten our supper, after a short rain storm, and we were in our pickup canopy and comfortably drinking a cold bottle of beer.
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Now it's June 6th and at 1:40 AM when we woke up to pee this is what the moon looked like. The second image is a 2-shot panorama and Pinnell Mountain Trail is on the ridge you see up there. The third shot shows some permafrost lobes which slowly tend to "drift" downhill.
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Here are two shots of Stellaria longipes ssp. longipes. We hiked a ways out the Circle to Fairbanks Historic Trail this morning, hoping to go to that cabin we showed you earlier (Page 2, Row 19 and you can also see it in the third shot in Row 16 on this page). The trail was very uninteresting though and we only hiked around a mile or so and headed back to the rig and then headed for home.
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On our way home we had this pretty shot of the Chatanika River. I also took three more exposure-bracketed photos of an area with an abundance of Cottongrass and then used those photos to create this Tone-Mapped image. I used the Details Enhancer Option.
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Now it's June 13th and we're hiking the Angel Rocks Trail (at 48.9 mile on the Chena Hot Springs Road). The first shot in this row shows Trientalis europaea, one of the Starflowers. The second shot is the flower of Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) and the third shot is Rhododendron tomentosum or Labrador Tea.
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The first shot here shows Cornus canadensis or Bunchberry. The second image is a 2-shot panorama of some of the Angel Rocks. The third shot is Viola biflora. WOW! We did not expect to find this here. Amazing!
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Here are two more shots of Viola biflora, a violet which we also found in Japan. The third shot is Viola epipsila ssp. repens, the Dwarf Marsh Violet.
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Here, in first position, is a pretty Campanula lasiocarpa. In the center is Saxifraga tricuspidata and in third position is a nice scenery shot.
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The first photo in this row is another Campanula lasiocarpa, the second shot shows Kazuya shooting the flowers, and the third shot is Arnica griscomii ssp. frigida.
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The first photo here shows Arnica griscomii ssp. frigida, the second photo shows some of the Angel Rocks, and the third shot shows the Chena River Valley.
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| Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this page. Please continue on to page 4 for the continuation and conclusion of this adventure, beginning at 11:38 AM. |
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