A winter evening walk on the UAF trails in Fairbanks, Alaska; record cold winter, deep snow, moonlit spruce forest, and a much-needed escape from the news.
Posted by | July 27, 2025
Testing a recovering knee injury on Alaska's Granite Tors Loop: 15 miles, thunderstorms, and the mental game of pushing through both weather
Posted by | June 21, 2024
Cypripedium guttatum, commonly known as the spotted lady's slipper, is a perennial herb in the orchid family with a unique, purple-spotted, inflated flower. It is found in northwestern North America,...
Posted by | June 18, 2024
Snow arnica was exploding all over Murphy Dome I planned on hiking near Wickersham Dome on Friday, but when I checked the weather radar, it looked like rain and storms...
Posted by | September 6, 2020
Late summer day hikes around Fairbanks in 2020. Photos from the Gulkana Glacier, Nome Creek, Creamer's Field, and Angel Rocks.
Posted by | May 5, 2020
More Photos A trumpeter swan feeding in the snowmelt at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Trumpeter Swan is the largest native waterfowl in North America, the males averaging about...
Posted by | March 2, 2020
Purchase Print The pastels turn fiery as the Sun nears the horizon. The sunrise colors glance the bottoms of the clouds over a bog along a trail on the Alaska...
Posted by | March 1, 2020
For a solid week, the aurora danced across the sky almost every night under a bright moon in 2015. The contrast of the bright snowy forest and the lit-up sky...
Posted by | February 21, 2020
Jupiter and Venus shining brightly in the sky Purchase Print Back in 2012, a friend and I went out on Murphy Dome at night on skis. The temperature was -30...
Posted by | February 20, 2020
Snow-clad trees in Fairbanks, Alaska Forest Photo Gallery There's something insanely spooky about walking through the boreal forests here in the winter. All the hunched over ghosts of snow-covered, stunted...
