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Sharon ready to board the twin engine turbocharged Piper PA 31-350 Navajo Chieftain.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 07:56 PM•Views: 75
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8 passengers. Guess who gets to ride in the rear seat. The guy who is prone to motion sickness, that's who! The pilot picked the seating by looking at us and asking our weight. I wish I had said 400 pounds.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:03 PM•Views: 75
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The Yukon River fed by a clear water tributary
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:06 PM•Views: 74
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Early Warning US radar station north of Fairbanks.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:18 PM•Views: 74
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Tundra
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:25 PM•Views: 76
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White Mountains in search of Dall Sheep
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:26 PM•Views: 74
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In a sharp, steep turn. What the hell am I doing here!?? The pilot, a real dare devil, probably enjoyed whipping up and over and around the mountain tops.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:30 PM•Views: 75
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6 Dall sheep
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:31 PM•Views: 74
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Alright already, Cowboy. We've seen the damn sheep. Now straighten it up and fly right. We actually had several more sightings, but I found these pictures the most exciting. Actually "exciting" is not quite the right word for me.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:42 PM•Views: 73
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Rainbow. Not as nice as we see in Sedona, but at least we are flying smooth and level, so I admire it loudly hoping he'll hear me.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:51 PM•Views: 76
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That Yukon is one big river.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 08:59 PM•Views: 75
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Are we there yet?
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 09:06 PM•Views: 74
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Fort Yukon was established Alexander Hunter Murray as a Hudson's Bay Company trading post on 25 June 1847. Murray drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote the Journal of the Yukon, 1847–48, which give valuable insight into the culture of local Gwich’in people at the time. American traders expelled the Hudson's Bay Co in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the Alaska Commercial Company took over the post. Lately it has become a minor tourist destination, being just above the arctic circle and mainly due to this man...
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 09:09 PM•Views: 77
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...our guide and driver, Richard Carrolls, a first nation native of Fort Yukon. He was hilarious, as funny as any comic you's see in Las Vegas, just telling about his life in Fort Yukon.
Welcome to the Fort Yukon Airport. During the Klondike Gold Rush, in the winter of 1897-1898, Fort Yukon received two hundred prospectors from Dawson City, which was short of supply. A post office was established on July 12, 1898 with John Hawksly as its first postmaster, but the settlement suffered over the following decades as a result of several epidemics and a 1949 flood.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 09:12 PM•Views: 76
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And here's our motor coach, which is the oldest Bluebird bus we've seen yet. During the 1950s, the United States Air Force established a base and radar station at Fort Yukon. The town was officially incorporated in 1959, 149 years after the bus was built.
Capture Date: Aug 20, 2013 09:13 PM•Views: 75
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