I flew to the village of Noatak for two days at the end of June. Summer is here and there is almost no ice left on the land but it is still beautiful-just a different type of beauty.
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/100_3414.JPG "The taxi and driver for the ride to the airport.")
/100_3415.JPG "The mouth of the Noatak river which is across the sound from Kotzebue.")
/100_3417.JPG "The cockpit. What the heck does all that say?")
/100_3422.JPG "The rocky \"hill\" we had to climb over.")
/100_3423.JPG "My view of the controls on my side of the plane.")
/100_3425.JPG "We did not have to go around this one or its sister on the other side, we just flew between them.")
/100_3434.JPG "The Noatak River farther inland.")
/100_3435.JPG "The village of Noatak.")
/100_3437.JPG "Coming in for a landing?")
/100_3442.JPG "The view of the wilds beyond my bedroom window.")
/100_3446.JPG "The emergency ramp with the rescue sled beside it.")
/100_3449.JPG "An artistic view.")
/100_3452.JPG "The land beyond the village.")
/100_3458.JPG "The clinic.")
/100_3459.JPG "The clinic on the edge.")
/100_3466.JPG "The now thawed land, green as far as the eye can see.")
/100_3477.JPG "Kotzebue and home. It looks so small and vulnerable from here.")
/100_3479.JPG "It sits on a fingernail like sliver at the end of a finger of land.")
/100_3480.JPG "Looks like we are lining up to land on main street.")