Homer the end of the road.. and the trip!

Homer is a most beautiful spot.  The weather is mild for Alaska, and there is water, fishing, mountains, moose and eagles.

Homer's famous spit

View from our window

Lots of  Moose

Eagles soaring

Seldovia: St. Nicholas Russian Church. Rita and Kayla, a lovely young women who showed us around. She lives here with two children in a dry cabin.

The Russians settled here in the late 1700's. It is off road...only plane or boat access

Ready for Dangerous Catch

Frequent Alaskan site... Resources are short.

The end of the Trip.... and the Road

Homer's famous Salty Dog

THE Last Great Race: Iditarod

The Anchorage ceremonial start

Lance Mackey waving to us

Dee Dee Jonrowe's dogs on the run

Dogs awaiting

Dogs getting ready

The Anchorage Fur Rondevous Fur Auction

Pete on the blanket for the blanket toss

The Willow Lake restart

Like a U of I football game on a frozen lake!

Our pilot Brian... off to the the checkpoint

In the air...

Skwentna Road House

The Skwentna Check point

Pete ready for the cold

Ten year old Allie gives me a snow machine ride!

Dee Dee's dogs come in first

Our host Cindy.. awesome cook

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skwentna Post Office: mail delivery twice a week. The mail goes across the

Our Host Mark who ran the Iron Dog 18 times

 

 

 

 

 

river by snow machine or boat, then to the airport..

The next day...last two teams

The Amazing World Ice Carving Festival in Fairbanks

One of 48 Beautiful Ice Carvings

One of the slides

Pete running the back gate

The weather news...-20 degrees

Fragile

Some Knot Theory

Our Favorite

The single blocks start with this

Mining the 3-5-8 foot blue ice blocks

The Cat raising the blocks for multi block

The Finns also did a Sauna..However in Finland no clothes!

Rita patroling the grounds at -20

I watched this being moved...it took over an hour

The winning single block

If you would like to see some photos taken by a REAL photographer, you can visit:

http://icealaska.com/

Pete and Rita wearing their Ice Classic shirts