It has warmed a little with the temps staying around zero. However the wind has been blowing in the 15mph and higher range daily making for really cold days. We did brave it this Sunday however.
I had to go to Fairbanks for business purposes in early March and while I was there they were having their annual Ice Festival. The blocks of ice they are carved from are cut from a pond in the park where the Festival is held. The blocks weigh in the tons and there are many different categories. The intricacy of most of the sculptures were amazing and since the temps stay well below freezing this time of year, the sculptures will last until thaw sometime in April or May.
Patty and I flew to Anchorage for two weeks at the end of March. I had a CHAP training seminar and she was doing recruiting at a nursing seminar. We did not take many pictures but I did take some interesting ones on the flight down.
Just a couple more.
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.jpg "The temps have wamed up a bit staying pretty much right around zero. This is perfect for forming icicles.")
.jpg "Cleaning the last blizzards worth of snow out from under the hood.")
.jpg "On the trail with friends Rob and Lorraine.")
.jpg "Lorraine says hello.")
.jpg "That's Patty believe it or not.")
.jpg "Along the trail.")
.jpg "A stop sign? This is where the trail crosses the loop road behind town.")
.jpg "Lorraine waving with Rob next to her and Patty catching up.")
.jpg "Waiting on me. Kotzebue is just across Swan Lake.")
.jpg "Rob and Lorraine on top of cemetary hill getting ready to ride down.")
.jpg "Patty watching.")
.jpg "Here they come!")
.jpg "We had to go up too and this is the view from the top.")
.jpg "Patty heading down.")
.jpg "It is hard to tell but it is a real steep incline.")
.jpg "I am starting down.")
.jpg "Us at the bottom standing on Swan Lake.")
.jpg "Outside my hotel was a grandstand made of ice. This is where the mayor will open the festival.")
.jpg "A full size log cabin made completely of ice.")
.jpg "The entry to the Festival was through an ice chainsaw. That is the doorway in the middle. That doorway has a six foot entrance.")
.jpg "The gate to the Kids Park.")
.jpg "Smoothing the ice rink")
.jpg "This sculpture stood about 8 feet.")
.jpg "I told the man next to me that was wishful thinking! It was below zero that day.")
.jpg "About 7 foot.")
.jpg "A no hunting sign in front of a sculpture. The sign came complete with fake bullet holes.")
.jpg "I don't know what it was supposed to be but it was pretty.")
.jpg "A hatched egg made completely of ice.")
.jpg "The bird that supposedly laid the egg.")
.jpg "Fantasy")
.jpg "This on impressed me. It stands about 7 feet tall.")
.jpg "The model for the next ice sculpture.")
.jpg "This is it carved in ice.")
.jpg "A diving otter chasing two fish.")
.jpg "God bless America!")
.jpg "A kids slide made completely of ice.")
.jpg "The Kotzebue terminal")
.jpg "The runway in Kotzebue")
.jpg "Getting ready to take off")
.jpg "Over the frozen Chuckchi Sea")
.jpg "The shore just south of Kotzebue with the town dump in the upper left")
.jpg "The frozen Arctic")
.jpg "On the way south to Anchorage")
.jpg "A frozen river")
.jpg "Descending into Anchorage")
.jpg "The Anchorage bowl as viewed from across the Knick Arm")
.jpg "Anchorage on the shores of the Knick Arm")
.jpg "Patty at the Maniilaq recruiting table")
.jpg "Cathy visits and chows on breakfast while Patty veges out in the hotel.")
.jpg "Boiled shrimp bound for a coctail rapidly cooling in the open living room window.")
.jpg "Patty looking at folks fishing to see if they are having any luck.")
.jpg "Getting ready to fish.")
.jpg "Out in the middle of the arctic wilds sitting on the mouth of a frozen river.")