Friday, April 28, 2006
Flight Seeing in ANWR
I mean working in ANWR. Yeah, pretty cool, got some decent weather yesterday and then again this morning (We're on weather hold at the moment) and wow, what a place! We were just in the Brooks Range part and these are just a few pictures from yesterday but totally got the money's worth on this trip.
--- At this point of the post they came and got me an we flew back out again on an amazing afternoon ---
Here's a few pictures. If you click on the picture you can see a bit bigger version (like always).
Looking down a long, deep valley:
Ken doing some snow surveying in the headwaters of the Kavig River:
A couple of really broad valleys that I thought were pretty cool:
Up in the headwaters of Accomplishment Creek next to this small lake in the saddle of the ridge:
These super deep and narrow gorges were everywhere. Pretty darn awesome. They're like 20 - 30 yards deep and look like they just have a little creek running down them. Pretty amazing.
Another picture of the cool geology and rocks out there:
So yeah, chalk it up for yet another once in a lifetime trip for work. Got pretty spoiled rotten out there with like 10 or so hours of flying time zipping around the refuge. Along those lines, definitely is a reason it's a wildlife refuge, we saw thousands of caribou. It was pretty cool. Even saw a couple herds of moose. Earlier on the trip we saw a herd of 10 and yesterday we saw a herd of 6. Awesome.
--- At this point of the post they came and got me an we flew back out again on an amazing afternoon ---
Here's a few pictures. If you click on the picture you can see a bit bigger version (like always).
Looking down a long, deep valley:
Ken doing some snow surveying in the headwaters of the Kavig River:
A couple of really broad valleys that I thought were pretty cool:
Up in the headwaters of Accomplishment Creek next to this small lake in the saddle of the ridge:
These super deep and narrow gorges were everywhere. Pretty darn awesome. They're like 20 - 30 yards deep and look like they just have a little creek running down them. Pretty amazing.
Another picture of the cool geology and rocks out there:
So yeah, chalk it up for yet another once in a lifetime trip for work. Got pretty spoiled rotten out there with like 10 or so hours of flying time zipping around the refuge. Along those lines, definitely is a reason it's a wildlife refuge, we saw thousands of caribou. It was pretty cool. Even saw a couple herds of moose. Earlier on the trip we saw a herd of 10 and yesterday we saw a herd of 6. Awesome.
