Stand-off for Sloppy-Seconds at the Base of the Birdfeeder

Four Little Paws

Emperor Penguin, Ross Island, Antarctica

It is so cold and snowy in Fairbanks right now that I expect to see one of these at our birdfeeder in the morning. Oh yeah....and if the ice keeps melting just north of us in the Arctic Ocean the Polar Bears will be next.

Camping with my Dad at Talkeetna and on the Kenai, 2006

Oh Come ON!! Seriously...What the F**K? Enough Already!

Yep...that was this morning at 6:00AM

Moody Camp, Moody Glacier, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, 2003

The Canning River and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Late June, 2006, North Slope, Alaska

Mount Bowers Spike Camp, on the Beardmore Glacier, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

(note the tiny tents in the top photograph for scale)

Colville/Kogosukruk/Kikiakrorak River Camp, North Slope, Alaska, 2007

Beardmore Base Camp, near the Beardmore Glacier, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, 2003

Basecamp Week...

I have decided that this week is "Basecamp Week". A recent chat with Doug Hissom stirred up that"camping bug" in me that comes around at about this time every year...so....as therapy I thought I would put up a series of photographs of some of my favorite campsites....just for fun. Somewhere in each series of images is my favorite tent, which I will unfortunately need to replace this year. ... :( :(