How cold does it get?

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Snow and ice on the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska.

How cold does it get?  How much snow do you get?  What is it like in the winter?  What about the darkness?  These have to be the most asked questions by visitors to Alaska each summer, and ones I will try to also answer here over the next couple of days.  Funny, I was asking people the opposite questions in Arizona recently.  Read More

100 Degree Temperature Swing

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Hoar Frost

Yesterday I wrote about experiencing a 100 degree temperature change as we traveled from Palm Springs to Alaska.  This isn’t very unusual for the Alaskan traveler heading to warmer places in the winter.  But it did remind me of the time I experienced a 100 degree swing without traveling.  I think this has to be fairly rare, especially today as Alaska doesn’t get nearly as cold as it did when I was growing up.  Read More

Seward 2006 Christmas Bird Count

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Rock Ptarmagain

This Rock Ptarmigan was photographed in Denali National Park.  I have included it here only because I thought it was a nice winter bird photo, not becuase it was seen in Seward, Alaska.  I have seen numerous Ptarmigain around Seward, but usually Willow Ptarmigain.

If my birding ability could ski, it would just now be venturing onto the intermediate blue square slopes, but I am an eager learner.  Read More

Snowshoeing Photos

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Snowshoeing Photos

Here is one more snowshoeing photo.  As you can see, only part of Turnagain Pass receives any sunlight this time of year, and this only lasts for about two hours.  Hopefully the trees will still look like this in March when this area receives hours of great sunlight.