Snow! More snow!
(Update: 10.6 inches total snowfall for yesterday, 33 at Alyeska ski resort). We've had 9 inches in the last 10 hours. It's still snowing. This week every day began the same: walking to my truck through ankle-deep snow, brushing it off, driving to work, coming back to a clean snow-plowed parking lot. Next morning, more ankle-deep snow.
I don't have any pictures of the beautiful white storm enveloping Anchorage. In the meantime, here's some I took about two months ago. Some of my coworkers have their own planes (Anchorage has the highest plane-per-capita index in North America), and they invited me along for a Saturday morning ride to Homer (about 3 hours roundtrip).
This is the Homer Airport. Our two Cessnas are the closest to the camera. My ride was the blue one (I actually got to fly it for a while!)
Beautiful ocean-side properties off the Homer Spit.
This is on our way back to Anchorage. We hugged the edge of that cliff all the way back to Anchorage. Eventually we were flying so low that those houses were above us.
Brian's Cessna, 2 minutes before overtaking him.
One of the many Alaskan ranges. It's hard to remember the names of all these peaks.
Some Alaskan peak. I shot this about 20 minutes before landing back in Anchorage.
Oh. Merry Christmas everyone.
4 comments:
Yes yes, you won the first prize for "GRAINY PICTURES AWARDS '06<->Eternity"
=P
Anyway, these are olllllld. Come on now don't be letting your guard down.
Oh yeah Happy Holidays (In the uk here you know, not really allowed to express anything else...might get hunted by a government aided siberian hunting spider. You know, by faking a limp leg, making me feel chr*stmassy sympathetic about the whole thing, approach it gracefully and get injected with its lethal venom in a single leap).
when are you coming???
Thursday afternoon.
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