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As stated at the bottom of Page 1, this page continues September 3rd, at 11:03 AM while we were still at Circle, Alaska.  On this page, we'll finish up at Circle and go back to the Eagle Summit Wayside to see more Caribou and also spend the night there in our canopy again.  In Row 20 we'll begin September 4th by heading back towards Fairbanks, but NOT actually returning to Fairbanks.  You'll have to wait until Page 3 to see the truly amazingly incredible place where we ended up staying on the night of September 4th.  Click on any thumbnail to begin.

September 3rd Continues from Page 1 (at 11:03 AM)
  The first and second shots show Circle, Alaska, an unknown building, taken while looking back from the END of the Steese Highway. The third shot shows the Yukon River at Circle.
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  Here are three more shots of the Yukon River at Circle, Alaska.
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  Here are two more shots of the Yukon River at Circle, Alaska. The third shot is Kazuya and the sign at Circle, Alaska. The sign is painted with very non-contrasting colors. In the next row is a part of this photo, converted to black and white and contrast between colors increased as much as possible.
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  In first position in this row is that Circle, Alaska sign converted to black and white and contrast increased as much as possible. The second photo shows the only store in Circle and the third shot shows Daniel standing beside the sign.
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  The first shot in this row shows the telephone booth in Circle, Alaska. It's in front of the store, shown in Row 4. The second and third shots show the Steese Highway as we approach the Birch Creek one-lane bridge coming from Circle.
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  The first two shots in this row show Birch Creek from the one-lane bridge shown just above. It surprised us that Birch Creek is this large. There was a road down to a boat ramp, which we drove down, and the third shot was taken at the water's edge from the boat ramp. Note the bridge.
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  The first shot in this row is the final one of Birch Creek. The second and third shots show some nice autumn yellows in the tundra.
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  The first image in this row is a Tone-mapped image which consists of three shots taken at different exposures. It makes for some vivid colors. The second image is a 2-shot panorama of a mountain in autumn dress. The third shot was taken just a short time before we got back up to the Eagle Summit Wayside. The black outlined area shows the next photo and the yellow outlined area shows where the parking area is at the Eagle Summit Wayside.
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  The first shot shows the outlined area of the previous shot. The yellow outlined area of this photo shows the parking lot at Eagle Summit Wayside. The second image is a two-shot panorama taken from the same spot as the previous image. The third shot was taken after we got back to Eagle Summit Wayside and hiked up to the summit of the small mountain - more Caribou (Rangifer tarandus).
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  Here are three more images of Caribou. We took these shots from the summit of the mountain closest to Eagle Summit Wayside. The center image is a 2-shot panorama, only possible because the Caribou were not yet moving around much after just finishing their rest.
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  All three photos in this row show Caribou with our cameras zoomed to one extent or another.
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  More Caribou.
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  A few of them kind of took the lead and headed off in one direction - going to our left, but you'll see in a little while, that a part of the herd didn't want to go that way, so they went to the right.
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  Note in the center shot in this row that although most of the animals are moving to the left, that a couple of them are saying something about not wanting to go that way, or at least not being sure that they should go that way.
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  The portion of the herd that went to the right soon disappeared down into Caribou Gulch, but the portion of the herd that went to our left remained visible to us for some time. Are they going to cross the Steese Highway?
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  Yes, they're going to cross the Steese Highway. It was not Caribou hunting season here, so they had nothing to worry about. The third shot shows a few of them down below the highway. As you can probably make out, there is more - and also taller - brush down there, so we soon lost sight of them.
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  Here are two shots of the final few animals of this part of the herd, crossing the Steese Highway. The third shot shows that as they gained elevation on the opposite side of the highway, we were able to see them again, until they were just too far away to even be able to make out.
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  The first shot in this row again shows Caribou on the opposite side of the Steese Highway. The second shot is a beautiful scenic shot which shows wonderful autumn colors looking down into Caribou Gulch. The third shot is a scenic shot with Daniel on the left.
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  While we were cooking our supper a car pulled into the Eagle Summit Wayside to use the restroom and they jumped out of their rig and ran over to us asking "Did you see those Caribou right there?" We had not noticed them, right beside the parking area. These three shots all show another Caribou herd, right beside the parking area.
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End September 3rd, Begin September 4th
  Now it's September 4th. We're driving back towards Fairbanks, but today we are NOT going home, just going TOWARDS Fairbanks. You'll have to wait and see where we ended up. These three shots show nice autumn colors between Eagle Summit and Twelvemile Summit.
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  These three shots all show more beautiful autumn color between Eagle Summit and Twelvemile Summit.
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  Three more autumn color shots as we approach Twelvemile Summit. The second and third shots are actually at Twelvemile Summit.
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  The first two shots show nice autumn colors at Eagle Summit. As we were walking around we happened to notice a covey of Ptarmigan scurrying around in the grass and shrubs trying to stay out of sight of us. It was kind of impossible, so we got several shots of them playing their silly hiding game. In the third shot in this row, you can see at least six of them.
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  All three shots in this row were taken as we followed the covey of ptarmigan around.
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  The first and third shots in this row are the final ones of the covey of Ptarmigan we were following around. They never did fly away, we just got tired of playing games with them. The center shot is the final fall color shot at Twelvemile Summit.
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mileSummitRC

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