Fairbanks airport just after 8am AKDT Tuesday dipped to -41F/-40.6C. This ties the record low for March 10 first set in 1931, also the latest date in the season with a temp of -40F/C or lower since 1964. #akwx #weather #Climate @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social @coyotetrail.bsky.social
Angel Rocks, outside Fairbanks, Alaska. A short hike with some great views, even in the middle of winter. These granite tors rise about 700 feet above the Chena River. We had the place to ourselves on Sunday!
Info in my hiking guide: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide...
#alaska #hiking #winter
The sun sets over a snow-covered trail through the boreal forest.
Fairbanks, Alaska
#alaska #landscape #sunset
Tors like these form when subsurface granite weathers along natural fractures over millions of years, then the softer surrounding rock erodes away, leaving the resistant core standing.
My hiking guide to the area: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide...
The Windchimes, enormous granite tors on the shoulder of Mt. Prindle, in the White Mountains northeast of Fairbanks.
#alaska #hiking #mountains
Couldn't focus this morning. Made bacon. Went through old photo folders. Wrote about it in Field notes from the north: lwpetersen.substack.com/p/a-rest-day...
#photography #alaska
September light through fog on the UAF trail system, Fairbanks, Alaska. The light doesn't last long like this.
#alaska #fall #forest #fairbanks
Altocumulus make for great sunrises. Boreal forest in Fairbanks, Alaska, early winter.
#alaska #sunrise #forest #fairbanks
The faint red at upper left is atomic oxygen emitting at 630nm, high altitude emission that's often invisible to the naked eye but shows up in long exposures. The crimson edges along the lower curtains are from molecular nitrogen, though a bit oversaturated from the exposure. Taken January 20, 2026.
Aurora during a Kp7 (G3) geomagnetic storm over the Goldstream Valley, Fairbanks. This display lasted well over an hour at this intensity.
#aurora #alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights
Look closely. This snowflake isn't perfectly symmetrical. They almost never are. Each arm grows under the same conditions, driving them toward symmetry, but wind, temperature and humidity variations across a crystal, and mid-air collisions, introduce variation.
#alaska #snow #macro #snowflake #ice
Me at 45 years old trying to climb like my stupid competition team kids. I'm too old for this shit.
"Should be" without any measure of doubt. In my humble opinion, the chance of impeachment proceedings with this Congress is zero.
A cow moose grazing on willows in late August in Denali National Park.
In my Wildlife Gallery: photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Al...
#alaska #wildlife #moose #denali
Since the Dow is under 50,000, can we talk about the Epstein files again?
My latest photo of the week post: lwpetersen.substack.com/p/aurora-fro...
#alaska #auroraborealis #photography
I caught a little sunlight on the first day of March. We now have over 10 hours of daylight in Fairbanks, Alaska. Of course, it's -42°F this morning, but it is supposed to warm up a bit.
More of my recent photos here: photos.lwpetersen.com/Recent-Photos
#alaska #winter #sunlight
Decided a -21°F and colder evening walk was exactly what I needed yesterday. Turned into two hours in the dark. Full post with photos on Substack: lwpetersen.substack.com/p/chilly-eve...
#alaska #winter #landscape
It's chilly
Just chillin in the snow tonight
Such a stupid distraction from Epstein. No one wants a war with Iran either. It's like he shit his pants, so he walked over and punched a baby to distract everyone from the smell.
Also, release the rest of the god damned files!
I, as an American, have never felt as secure as when I learned the President was starting a war from the blanket fort at his clubhouse.
Now that the Board of Peace has a war under its belt it can really get down to business.
The vegetation difference in your photos of Exit Glacier, only 4 years apart, is quite dramatic.
Yeah, that's the Worthington Glacier. I've noticed a similar scale retreat with it. It's also quickly disappearing from view at the overlook.
Adult and juvenile bald eagle sparring over salmon at Solomon Gulch Hatchery, Valdez, Alaska. The brown mottled plumage on the juvenile is distinctive; they won't develop the white head and tail until about age 4 or 5.
#alaska #wildlife #eagle #valdez
Lol, yeah, no reason to keep them separate.
