Alaska pictures!

[camwyn]

As requested, I took lots of pictures in Alaska. However, my scanner is slow and tends to go dark no matter how I adjust it. Therefore, I am only scanning part of the pictures in, and only a relative few of them at a time. If you want more, either help me get a better scanner or contact me about coming to visit my house.

Most of these pictures are around 25-30k each in size, fair warning.

Statue of a polar bear from the University of Alaska Fairbanks museum
Blue Babe, a steppe bison permafrost mummy at the same museum
The hostel I stayed at- Billie's Backpackers Hostel, in Fairbanks
A domestic reindeer bull from the University's Experimental Farm
Me on the Dalton Highway, on my trip up to the Arctic Circle
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, same trip
Open tundra near Finger Rock, not far south of the Arctic Circle
Possibly my favourite roadside sign ever
Actually crossing the Arctic Circle for the first time
The Molson's Rant ("I am Joe, and I AM CANADIAN!!!") features a line to the effect of "I don't know Bobby, or Jimmy, or Susie from Canada, although I'm sure they're really nice people." The Rant lies. I kept meeting random Canadians; these are Jim and Jane, from the Ottawa area, and I ran into them again on an entirely separate trip. And yes, they are very nice people.
Kid-O, current lead dog of Mary Shields, the first woman to complete the Iditarod sled dog race in 1976.
Mary's dogs are really friendly.
More of her dogs.
Her old school dogsled and tent.
Reindeer skin parka Mary received from a Siberian musher.
And Mary herself, who was very happy to be photographed with each of us on the tour that night.

More to come later.