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Waterfalls along a cliffside looking up at the Worthington Glacier
Autumn in Denali National Park
Mountains south of the Park Road in Denali National Park and Preserve. "Rivers" of yellow wind through the red foliage and "lakes" of green spruce dot the hillsides. I have yet to find a place that I would prefer to be in autumn, even though the season here is incredibly short. The splendid colors only hang around for about a week before the deciduous leaves fall, followed shortly by the snow.
An early snowfall fell in September of 2013 in Fairbanks. The foliage was just coming into peak and the oranges and yellows were beautifully covered in a bit of white. I would not mind if snow fell every year on autumn leaves.
Here are more waterfalls into Prince William Sound near Valdez.
Very cool, dynamic light on Mt. Kearsarge in New Hampshire.
Looking over the edge of a beaver dammed pond on Rock Creek along the Granite Tors Trail.
Sea otters relaxing on an iceberg in Columbia Bay.
An early snowfall for Fairbanks covers the foliage around Smith Lake in Fairbanks.
The northern lights just a few yards away from our cabin.
At the Solomon Gulch Hatchery in Valdez, Alaska.
Over one of the Miller Creek drainages.
Mid-afternoon light hits the treetops in Fairbanks, Alaska.
On the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Eventually the slushy blue streaks in the snow from a few days before this gave way to water channels in the ice beneath the surface. Sometimes they find old channels from previous years, sometimes they don't. In the summer of 2014 we spent two weeks camped on the glacier and had to cross many of these streams. It was still early in the melt season which meant that there weren't any moulins yet to drain the water for the surface. This meant that to get across the glacier we had to jump over many of these streams, a handful of which were quite wide. My knees would often be swollen and sore at the end of the day. I was always more comfortable jumping to my dominant, right leg, but when I didn't mix it up I paid for it later. I started jumping all the small streams to my left leg, and only to my right if there were consequences for missing a jump.
The aurora was very active on the horizon to the northeast. I almost missed that the entire sky above me was pulsating, with color! This was display was filling the sky; you can see the constellation Orion bottom center, and the Pleiades cluster up and right.
Columbia Bay
Gorgeous red landscapes over the Thorofare River and yellow vegetation-covered Muldrow Glacier. And of course Denali, the tallest Mountain in North America at 20,310' above sea level.
Rocks on the surface of College Glacier.
Great sky over one of the smaller, mostly dry drainages in the Miller Creek basin in the Alaska Range. Mt. Shand can be seen in the distance.
The higher you go on the Harding Icefield Trail, the better the views seem to get. It's a long way down to the crevassed Exit Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park.
Northern lights over boreal forest in Fairbanks, Alaska
Young Dall sheep with grass in mouth climbing to a ridge at Polychrome Pass.
Sky view from the Equinox Marathon Trail on Ester Dome