Alaska pictures

[Onthesauk]

My Sister just emailed this link, best photos of the year from the Anchorage Daily News.  Some great pictures!

http://www.adn.com/2011/12/29/2237905/best-of-2011-reader-submitted.html#id=1726013&view=large_view

[Magicman]

I enjoyed that.  Made me want to drag my Alaska album out. ;D

[Norm]

Some great photos, thanks for sharing.

[Patty]

WOW!  Those pictures are amazing!!

[Warbird]

My home.  Thanks for posting that link - I'd missed it.  I've been to many of those places.  Those pics make me want to pack up the wife & kid and go back country camping out past Tangle Lakes.

ps.  Norm, I entered into a few draws for hunting in 2012.  Did you followup on that and get entered for anything?

[Norm]

No I sure didn't James, with my taking on more farming I'm your typical broke farmer.  :D

[Warbird]

Well DanG.  We will get you up here to hunt sometime.

[Chris Burchfield]

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing.  The bear looking over his right shoulder at the camera look like he is being interrupted.   :D :D :D

[wood monger]

Truly awesome photos, thanks. Alaska is on my bucket list.

[Warbird]

Just don't visit in the winter.  Day 12 of the most recent cold snap and it just warmed up to -23 F.  Supposed to cool off again over the next few days.

Makes a guy wonder if you could get pictures like that in a less harsh environment?

[sandhills]

Just don't visit in the winter.  Day 12 of the most recent cold snap and it just warmed up to -23 F.  Supposed to cool off again over the next few days.

Makes a guy wonder if you could get pictures like that in a less harsh environment?

Ah come on, I hear it's a "dry" cold up there anyway  :D :D :D.  My dad was stationed up there in the winter of, well it would have been around the mid to late 60's, sounded about like the one you've been having, but he keeps track of it now and almost always if you're getting froze to death up there we have a mild winter down here, suppose to set a record high tomorrow at 68*.

[ibseeker]

Those are some great photos...thanks. It seems like those moose aren't too concerned with people but how dangerous are they during rut when they are in town?

[Warbird]

I'm uncertain what the average is but we usually have at least a couple of stupid people get trampled/killed each year.  The males are more aggressive during the rut but they won't attack people unless they are in the way.  The injuries I know of involve females separated from their calves by someone walking where they shouldn't have.

[gspren]

If all goes as planned the wife and I plan on towing our 5th wheel camper to Alaska in June & July.

[Warbird]

What parts of the state are you planning on visiting?

[ibseeker]

I thought they were dangerous but after visiting Maine the people we asked about the moose gave me the impression that it's no big deal to have them walking about town. In Estes Park Colorado the elk come down out the park and spend the winter in town, there are hundreds of elk around which was pretty cool for my wife and I having never been close to one. Alaska is really an amazing place.

[snowstorm]

I thought they were dangerous but after visiting Maine the people we asked about the moose gave me the impression that it's no big deal to have them walking about town. In Estes Park Colorado the elk come down out the park and spend the winter in town, there are hundreds of elk around which was pretty cool for my wife and I having never been close to one. Alaska is really an amazing place.

the moose in maine arent tame. once an a while they will wander into a town but they often times arent well. they get brain worm makes them do strange things

[Chuck White]

Great pictures!

I've saw a few of those spots myself, when I was stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage.

I still say "pictures don't do justice to seeing it in person"!

Thanks for posting.