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Yooooo for good grief sakes, mercy. Another hasty trip to the hills, March 2004.
The cool climbing pictures are still in cardboard boxes. I would have got around to making them digital, but I got dragged alway from my computer, for a weekend trip, on a snow motor thing, of all things.
This is just a typical trip to an Alaska Range foothills cabin, south of Fairbanks. I forgot to get a picture of the cabin, or a picture of the inordinately fine wine and culinary artistry worthy of the view from the cabin.
The view from one of the low ridges. The cabin is down in the trees, with the same view. Looking west over the Delta River and Richardson Highway, north side of the Alaska Range. Mt. Hayes on right, Mt. Moffit in center, then Mt. McGinnis.
Closer view of Moffit on the right, McGinnis center left. Climbers sit in the cabin and tell potential stories about every route you can see, and some actual stories.
Mt. Hayes
The famous Donnelly Dome. The Richardson Highway passes near the bottom on this side. The right of passage for Fairbanks climbers is to walk to the top, because it is there.
How to cross one of the braids of the Delta River. Start.
Easy on the throttle, and keep hoping, while slick rocks bump around under the track.
Whew.
Next.
Close, but not enough hoping. 20 degrees below zero, and wet feet.
We caught this gathering of old Ents. Survivors. The other trees were little young sorts, struggling against the spring ice break-ups and floods from a glacier just upstream.
Another Ent, who was not content with one view of things.
Yes, the Alaska oil pipeline leaks like a sieve. And yes, it ran out of oil years ago. They pump water through it, just to keep people fooled. It is a conspiracy. That is why the oil wars continue, on schedule.
More proof.
Oh, yeah, lunch at the bottom of Mt. Silvertip, the sharp point behind the ridge in the foreground. Nice hill. Pleasant walk up through some crevasses.
Mo later....
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