ALASKA IS GOD'S LAND

Rynnieva went to Talkeetna this weekend to attend the Institute of the North Dialogue VI to discuss the upcoming Boom with the gasline. On the way back to North Pole, she got the opportunity to get some incredible photos.

This picture was shot on the Parks Highway Sunday afternoon as Rynnieva and her daughter, Katharine, were heading home to North Pole from Talkeetna. What is so fascinating is the privilege of being able to view Mt. McKinley is rare and the clouds had been hovering over Mt. McKinley for days. But when Katharine and Rynnieva woke up Sunday morning the Denali, the "Great One", Mt. McKinley, was open and visible to a crystal clear sky.

The ride north to Fairbanks from Talkeetna is espcecially rewarding in the fall when the leaves are turning colors.

Fog creeps into the Cantwell area.

Fog starts moving in on the Susitna River Valley. McKinley is the mountain on the right and Foraker if the mountain on the left.

A jet had passed in the sky and as the jetstream spreads a feather forms.

Though faint in the picture, this rainbow spreads across the clear blue sky in an arc shape to camoflauge into the colors of autumn leaves.

The beauty of birch trees in the fall and ground vegetation changing colors with the trees is cause to think of miracles and our place on this earth.

This is an exanple of the abrupt terrain in Alaska. We go from tundra, to treelines, to lichen, to hills, and to what you can't see (except for the base of the first low line of the hills on the left) the highest mountain in the continent.

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