Skookum Glacier

This past week, Dori had to opportunity to go on a team building snow machine trip with coworkers. It was a 3 hour trip to skookum glacier (not to far from Girdwood) and it was beautiful! The weather was perfect, 3 feet of fresh snow the night before, and about 35 degrees out in the sun. plus - an incredible glacier! This is Alaska...

North Slope trip

Got the opportunity to head up north to Prudhoe Bay this week. While it's still very much winter there, it was beautiful weather, and I had a great trip. These are pics from my phone camera, so the quality is not so great, but it still made some pretty decent pics...

This is the STP (Seawater Treatment Plant) facility. It's awesome. It's a big barge that was shipped over from Korea, and then sunk on the coast of the artic ocean. It's enormous - as you can see by the ladder there. The bottom of the ladder has a big cage around it - to prevent polar bears from getting in there.

Sunset from the BOC (Base Operations Camp) - on the west side of the field. This is taken through a window, so it's a bit fuzzy...

The Artic Ocean... really. it's just covered with snow, so it looks like just another flat snow field...

Sun rise from the East side of operations. Everyone just leaves their trucks running all the time...

View from STP back towards the West Dock - where apparently, there is lots of activity in the summer months...

Finn's First Birthday

Gretchen and Phil had a cowboy themed party for Finn's first birthday - and he had a great time eating cake, chili, and opening his presents...

Carsten in his coyboy hat


Finn LOVES cake

Bern notices that his t-shirt matches the plates...


Finn got his very own cell phone

Ang and Bern pose for someone elses camera...

Finn shreds his wrapping paper