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posted: October 31st, 2016 |
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This page actually begins with one photo which Kazuya took on September 28th. Then there are eight photos from September 29th. After that we actually get into the October photos and a climb partway to the summit of Wickersham Dome and some snowy scenery. That evening we camped in our pickup canopy at Olnes Pond and took photos of the Aurora Borealis, and that ends Page 1. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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This solitary photo taken on September 28th shows me working on our land picking up brush and piling it - study this photo a bit and you'll see that I am working in the falling snow.
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Kazuya loves to bake. This photo shows two of his baked creations - the ones on the left are called "Financier" and the ones on the right are called "Palmier" - they were both delicious!
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The previous photo was taken in the morning. These photos of the Aurora Borealis were, of course, taken at night on September 29th, just a short distance up the road from our house.
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Here are two more photos of the Aurora Borealis. These photos do not do justice to what we were actually able to see.
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Here are two more photos of the Aurora, note that you can see the Big Dipper in both of these shots.
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On October 1st we went north on the Elliott Highway, parked at the Wickersham Dome Trail parking lot and hiked partway to the summit of Wickersham Dome. Remember that we climbed all the way to the summit of Wickersham Dome on July 13th, but this time we knew how far it was and we had no desire to duplicate that climb on this date, we were just out for a bit of exercise and recreation. The first photo in this row shows the Sawtooth Mountains, rather zoomed-in. The second shot shows those same Sawtooth Mountains without any zoom. The third shot shows the Alaska Range near Delta Junction - a long ways away!
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The first and third shots in this row show the White Mountains and the center shot shows the summit of Wickersham Dome.
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The first and third shots in this row show the summit of Wickersham Dome. The outlined area in both of those shots shows the area that is shown in the center shot in the row.
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The first shot here shows the White Mountains and the person is me. The center image is a two-shot panorama of the White Mountains - zoomed-in quite a bit. The outlined area shows the area that is included in the third shot in this row, which is zoomed-in even more.
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Here is another shot which is zoomed-in to the White Mountains. The second shot shows Kazuya on the tundra and the third shot shows some frozen Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). Is it necessary for me to point out that you should note that we have a bit of snow underfoot in several of these shots?
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Here is another shot zoomed-in to the White Mountains. Note Table Top Mountain, which we climbed on July 9th. The center image is composed of 3-exposure-bracketed photos combined into one image - a High Dynamic Range image. Both the center the the third photos show the Sawtooth Mountains in the distance.
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As we were driving back towards Fairbanks in the afternoon we noticed that there was a single aspen clone which still had golden colored leaves. You can see this clone in the first and second photos in this row. Every other aspen tree was bare of leaves except for the ones which are a part of this clone. Why? The third photo is of Olnes Pond and some interesting clouds. We stopped here to camp for the night so that we could take photos of the Aurora Borealis over the pond. We cooked our supper and ate and then slept for a short time and got up at around dark and found some decent Aurora to photograph.
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Here are three shots of the Aurora Borealis over Olnes Pond. In the first and third shots you can see the reflection of the Aurora in the pond.
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Here are the final three shots from October 1st - three additional shots of the Aurora Borealis at Olnes Pond. Note that you can see the aurora reflection in the pond in all three shots.
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