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Entries Tagged as 'Fairbanks'

Quite a year

October 27th, 2013 · Comments Off

It’s been a pretty big year since my last blog post. Traveled to Santa Barbara (saw Dana and Carolyn) and Tokyo, bought a new house next to Kitty-Kat, decent summer including an injury-free season with the ‘Shrikes, went to Idaho for Grandma’s 90th (plus 1/2) birthday, managed to get to north of the Brooks Range […]

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Tags: Alaska · blog · Fairbanks · Friends · holidays · Life · Travel

Spring is near

April 18th, 2012 · Comments Off

The past couple of weeks, I have spent a lot of time out in the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed monitoring the snow ablation. The days have been amazing and the snow is (finally) starting to disappear. I can tell spring is near as I have my first blood stained page in my field book (from […]

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Tags: Alaska · Fairbanks · weather

Field work has begun!

April 12th, 2012 · Comments Off

The weather is finally starting to turn a bit and the snow is slowly starting to melt. The past couple weeks, I have been out measuring the snow ablation (melt) at our research sites. Being outside alone, away from my computer, soaking up the sun has been amazingly good for me and great for my […]

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Tags: Fairbanks · weather

El Toro Guapo has a birthday

March 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off

El Toro Guapo had his 3rd birthday this week. Hard to believe that I’ve had him 2.5 years already.

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Tags: Alaska · Fairbanks · Life

World Ice Art Championships

March 16th, 2012 · Comments Off

Last weekend, Shannon and I went to the World Ice Art Championships. Like last year, it was chilly and we did not stay long. As always, amazing art. The ice art is a nice reward for surviving winter! The rest of the images are in my image gallery. Shannon posted her pictures here.

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Tags: Alaska · Culture ? · Fairbanks · Friends

Not sure what to say… kinda awesome though

February 18th, 2012 · Comments Off

I really hate the idea of promoting this, but it really is too awesome not to share. I actually don’t have to worry too much about promoting it, as not many people visit the blog any more.

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Tags: Culture ? · Fairbanks

This Never Gets Old

February 15th, 2012 · Comments Off

Some things never get old, no matter how many times experienced. This is what I came home to last night.

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Tags: Alaska · Aurora Borealis · Fairbanks · Life · Northern Lights · weather

Can’t escape

February 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off

I thought my last post would be the last weather related post for a while, but I guess this will not be the case. I thought all was good after escaping Fairbanks and it’s 5th coldest January on record. However, last night, a major snow storm hit Boulder, snowing about 10 inches over night.

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Tags: Fairbanks · weather