Wildkyle in Nome
June 20, 2003
This year my work has taken me to amazing Nome. Here are a few photos of the fun I have been having this year here.
When I was on my way here in April, I was told the ice pack had already gone out.
I was so disappointed, but it uncharacteristically came back in, and was here when I arrived. It stayed for a few week and I was able to take a walk out onto the pack ice and get some photos of Nome.
There are some 40 dredges visible from the road system here, though I have only seen about 20 so far. They are in all forms of decay from looking to be functional to nothing more than piles of wood and steel.
Here is one of the first ones I saw, jammed in the ice like a Robert Service poem.
With Nome in the background, here are some dredge buckets which have been removed from a dredge and left here in the tundra. There are hundreds of these bucket placed all over town, in peoples yards, around buisnesses, and the biggest are placed around the old catholic church in the center of town.
On one of my first drives out the Teller road, I saw hundreds of Ptarmigan dotting the tundra. Many of them where already turning brown while more where still snowy white.