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And off they went
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 10:36 AM•Views: 74
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Around this side of the lake...
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 10:36 AM•Views: 75
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And around the other side of the lake
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 10:37 AM•Views: 74
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And back home.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 10:39 AM•Views: 74
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Unhitched, they cooled off and some jumped in, and others got treats.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 10:40 AM•Views: 75
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A fish wheel. Invented in the orient, they were imported to Alaska and Canada. The river current turns it, and the baskets (one shown at 1 o'clock, the other just coming out of the water) dip into the stream and fish swim into a basket and are lifted out of the water and are dumped into a stationary basket above water where they are harvested by the fisherman. The girl here is smoking salmon, for the sled dogs and for sale in their shop. To us on the boat. They did not miss a trick.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 11:01 AM•Views: 75
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In another part of the stern wheeler ride, we got off at this recreated First Nation Village. Two First Nation girls about to leave for college (one in Hawaii) model native clothes and describe the skins used for each part of each garment.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 11:26 AM•Views: 75
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Here are some skins, Wolf, Beaver, Lynx?, Red Fox, Artic Fox summer coat, Silver Fox, and winter coat Arctic Fox
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 11:38 AM•Views: 75
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They also had reindeer, or domesticated caribou. All of the above was part of the Discovery II river cruise.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 11:43 AM•Views: 74
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Next we went to a gold mining/gold dredge operation that had closed active operations, but were open as a tourist demonstration park. We entered under the Alaska Pipeline walking under an above ground section entering the Gold Dredge Park just outside of Fairbanks where we panned for gold with a pan and a poke of gravel they supplied and it was guaranteed to contain gold. I got $9 and Sharon got $11 of gold flakes. One woman got $39 and another got $33.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 02:44 PM•Views: 74
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The pipeline is 48" diameter and 1/2" wall. The boys are examining a "dumb pig" made from hard rubber or soft plastic, that is blown through the pipeline by the oil pressure and scrapes the inner walls to keep them clean. There are also "smart pigs" that xray and otherwise examine the walls and welds to insure the integrity of the pipeline. The two finned things above the posts are heat radiators that passively cool the ground via anhydrous ammonium or CO2 to keep the permafrost frozen.
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 01:53 PM•Views: 76
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Inside the Gold Park we boarded a tram and stopped by a guide with a headset who described the use of the hydrological water cannon to blast off the banks of creeks to free the gold laden gravel before the dredge was sent in.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 03:25 PM•Views: 74
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Goldstream Dredge #8 at Fairbanks, Alaska. Built and first operated in 1928 and closed down in 1959, it was credited with extracting 7.5 million ounces of gold from the Goldstream Valley near Fairbanks. Here the bucket line is visible on the top of the boom and you an see how it would carry gravel up into the structure for sluicing. The dredges were built in shipyards in San Francisco or Seattle, then disassembled and shipped to the Yukon where they were reassembled on the creek or river they were to operate. Being so big, when they were shut down, they were just abandoned in place.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 03:30 PM•Views: 76
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Mammoth ivory on display in the gold dredge gift shop.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 04:41 PM•Views: 75
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Sharon is pointing to Fort Yukon just north of the Arctic Circle, and the arctic circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 44.″ Fort Yukon is located at 66°34′2″N 145°15′23″W, so we were off to 18" north of the Arctic Circle (about 0.3 miles).
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 07:30 PM•Views: 75
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