Photo archive for February 22, 2008
Fairbanks musher Phil Joy drives his team through the finish chute as he arrives at the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Joy completed the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon, in 12 days, 22 hours and 7 minutes.
Fairbanks musher Phil Joy lies with members of his team, Bruiser, bottom, and Zen, after they arrived at the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Joy, who finished 12th, had time to linger with his team, friends and race fans being more than twenty hours ahead of the next musher. Joy completed the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon, in 12 days, 22 hours and 7 minutes.
H. Andrew Greeley and the rest of the 15-piece cast of "Camino Real" explore life's biggest questions in Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre's production.
Mermaids are among the many sea creatures who will be gliding through Fairbanks Figure Skating Club's "Ice Odyssea."
Anne Thibault, right, explores life after being deserted by a parent in her one-woman play, "I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me."
A still from the documentary "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story," which is one of the films that will be shown by special guest Ravit Markus when she is in Fairbanks.
A mature bald eagle and a raven share a tree perch along Chief Evan Drive on a sunny Thursday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2008.
David Panigeo
Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre is taking a surreal ride down "Camino Real."
Steven Barb
Vincent Guzzardi
A suspected bank robber is seen in this frame from a video surveillance camera at the Denali State Bank on Chena Pump Road.
Doyon Ltd. Natural Resources Manager Norm Phillips, second from left, fields a question regarding the Native corporation’s proposed land exchange within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008, during a public comment session held by the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Noel Wien Library.
Wide receiver Adrian Perez greets the media after being announced as the latest player to sign with the Fairbanks Grizzlies on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2008. Perez, of Omaha, Nebraska, is a seven-year veteran of indoor football.
Hugh Neff of Skagway recounts how an extended nap may have cost him a position at the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Neff was passed by Kelley Griffin while he slept in his sled between the Carmacks, Yukon, and Braeburn Lodge checkpoints. Neff finished in seventh place with an elapsed time of 11 days, 21 hours and 24 minutes to complete the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse.
Wasilla musher Kelley Griffin talks with her handlers after arriving at the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Griffin finished in sixth place with an elapsed time of 11 days, 21 hours and 15 minutes to complete the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse.
Kelley Griffin, of Wasilla, put on a pair of sandals soon after arriving at the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. After more than 11 days in boots to complete the 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Griffin was glad to free her feet.
Kelley Griffin's lead dog Hoover rests in her dog truck Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at the finish line of the Yukon Quest in Whitehorse, Yukon. Hoover was able to sit out the last 100-mile leg of the race as the Wasilla musher dropped him at the Braeburn Lodge checkpoint.
Dan Kaduce of Chatanika arrives in Whitehorse, Yukon, as he nears the finish line of the Yukon Quest on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. Kaduce's run from the final checkpoint at Braeburn Lodge was delayed for six hours as he looked for a dog lost while crossing a stretch of overflow. Kaduce found the dog Extra and arrived at the finish line in eighth place with an elapsed time of 12 days, 3 hours and 39 minutes.
Dan Kaduce of Chatanika shows the scrapes on his shins he received while wading through overflow filled with chunks of ice while on his way to the finish line of the Yukon Quest Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Kaduce lost a dog while crossing one stretch and needed to carry each of his dogs across the next.
A beaver breaks the surface as it cruises upriver as students in Sharlee Reabold's second-grade class at Denali Elementary School take a field trip to the open water in the Chena River to update their journals and draw scenic pictures Thursday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2008. The class visits the site along First Avenue across from Lathrop Street every season to document the scene as part of the Seasons second-grade curriculum. "It was great," Reabold said of the day, referring to both the warm sunny weather and to the beaver sighting the class got to experience on the trip.
Daniel Peterson, 8, colors in trees as students in Sharlee Reabold's second-grade class at Denali Elementary School take a field trip to the open water in the Chena River to update their journals and draw scenic pictures Thursday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2008. The class visits the site along First Avenue across from Lathrop Street every season to document the scene as part of the Seasons second-grade curriculum. "It was great," Reabold said of the day, referring to both the warm sunny weather and to the beaver sighting the class got to experience on the trip.
Alaska’s Bobby Pico, left, keeps tight pressure on Seattle’s Leigh Swanson on Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008, at the Patty Center. After trailing to the Nanooks for part of the game, the Redhawks came back to post a 62-58 victory.