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Nome : Seasons

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Nome : Seasons
Blurry signs of spring: More muskrat spottings!

It’s been a year since I’ve updated. In that year I’ve had a few downs and ups and done a wee bit more exploring, mostly away from Nome. Since last May, I’ve visited New Orleans, the North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Boston, Spain’s Barcelona, France’s Paris, and London in the UK. In my opinion, Nome, or perhaps Alaska in general, has some of the least pretty sights of man-made infrastructure, but some of the most lovely wild places, still preserved.

Here are a few bits of the lovely in the last year from around Nome.

May 2023:

So much driftwood
Snow dumps started melting
Spring Furry Friends

June 2023

Beach finds
Muskox napping
Fresh green
So many wildflowers!

July 2023

Dropping a line.
Wild Iris
Beach finds
Eating subway on the boardwalk around the Train to Nowhere
Beach finds
Foamy seas and drama clouds
Happy little moss
The Last Train to Nowhere
Bird on the march
Last Train to Nowhere
Last Train to nowhere,  rusting away

August 2023

Salmon berries were late this year thanks to a slow start start spring.
Fall storms bring fun seas.
Salmonberry picking!
Musk oxen on the hillside.
Can actually see the sunsets again before late bedtime.
Kougarok Road drive
Salmon Lake
Nome river just before it meets the Bering Sea
Other side of the Nome River
Nome River as the tundra begins to change.
Tundra Turning.

September 2023

Rainier days mean more rainbows
Nome blueberries
Nome – Council road, with Council in the distance. 
Views off the Nome Council Road
Nome Council Road views
Sun is much lower in the evenings now.
Coming back the end of September, most of the Tundra has already turned
Rainbows Galore!

October 2023

Finally sunset season again
Fall storms bring rough waves
Frosty tundra out the kougarok road
Views from the nome river bridge out the kougarok road
Council of gulls and ducks in the Snake River before it freezes over

November 2023

The colorful twilights are some of my favorites
The ocean calms a bit as it cools, but no sea ice yet. 
The moon sees me
Snow sticks on the beach, but the sea hasn’t frozen yet.
Stunning skies
Skies on fire
We can leave the Christmas lights up till January (or beyond)

December 2023

11:24am,  before sunrise on 12/4
Nome’s Christmas lights add an extra glow to Front Street.
Sunrise at work,11:56am on 12/7.
12/8 sea ice begins to form, sun above the horizon at 2:07pm
12/13 at 12:36pm sunrise with chunks of ice in the ocean
Sunrise on 12/19 at 12:59pm, the seaice has extended further from shore.
Dawn at 12:24pm on 12/23 overlooking the frozen Snake River.

January 2024

Houseplants have no idea and send out buds 1/1/24
Drifts beginning to form.
Roomies car became a good snow measurement over 48 hours
Drifts galore.
Snow removal got a little complicated after snow many blizzards
Sunrise from work 1/19 at 5:02pm
Long shadows but the pink dawn and dusk set the world aglow.

February 2024

Pretty much the only outdoor picture I have of February, and I guess it sums it up. 😄

March 2024

Sun returns.
Iditarod Nomies.
Iditarod Musher Ryan Reddington coming into Nome just before sunset
Iditarod musher at sunset
Iditarod Dog Mushers coming into Nome on Front Street
Athletes at the end of their 1000 mile run.
Denali out the jet window after I leave Nome to head to Europe.

April 2024 – I missed the first half while in Europe, but only missed 2 or 3 blizzards.

Denali on the way back to Nome in Late April
Flying home over Nome late April to a still very white landscape.
Picked up some new wheels I’m pretty happy about.

May 2024

May 10th brought fresh snow, unsurprisingly.
May 14th with more snow flurries.
The sea ice broke up and left all over one week the end of May.
May 31, Safety Sound’s open water
Fresh beach grass at Safety Sound with snow/ice still by the shore.
Fluffy summer clouds are my favorite.

June 2024

Return of wildflowers and seashells.

If you made it to the end of this crazy post, I’m impressed, because even my blog editor was trying to quit long before with all these pictures. I hope you got a little taste of what makes Nome so special and why we love it so.

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Glacier Creek Falls Adventure

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It’s been a while since an update. But since WordPress charged me again for another year of hosting, I figured I’d better actually use this site! 🙂

Every year our July 4th tradition is to go on a fourwheeler/ATV ride. We usually head to Glacier Creek Falls, which is maybe a 50mile ride, roundtrip.

The Nome River at Dexter in June 2021.

This year, thanks to our cold and cloudy summer, we postponed the ride to July 13. And that was so well timed! The sky opened up and it did not rain one single drop. It was just perfect for the day trip. Not too hot, not to cold, juuuuuust right.

The crew.

The views were stunning, as usual.

Views from the trail.

The snow slide was there, as usual, which elated many folks. Please enjoy these quick phone camera clips, sped up for your viewing pleasure.

Unique little wildflowers brought me so much delight.

Kiddos had fun playing in the little creek. Evie fell into the water several times but kept walking right back into it. 🤷‍♀️
Some of the more daring folks love to scramble all over the rock formations like little mountain goats. Above the falls are neat little pools where the stream has smoothed out the stone and created little schutes that the water gushes through on its way out of the mountians.
On a hotter day it might be a bit more refreshing. But with ambient temp high in the high 50’s-very low 60’s…. I did not step in this water barefoot!

Evie, the water magnet.

Ever a trek to get out there, it seems to take twice as long to arrive (2+hours) as it does to get back home. But it is always a peaceful day in the hills and we look forward to it so much, every year. Thankful for blue skies, few bugs, and sweet memories!

View of our picnic site from hill up above.