Photo archive for February 6, 2008
Members of the snowSTAR 2007 expedition pitch camp near Darling Lake, Northwest Territories. The expedition, led by Matthew Sturm, a scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Experimental Labratory on Fort Wainwright, covered approximately 2,200 miles from Fairbanks to Baker Lake, Nunavut, during March and April 2007.
Henry Huntington, an independent researcher from Eagle River, stands next to one of the chimneys of Fort Confidence. The fort was built in 1837 on the north shore of Great Bear Lake by Peter Dease and Thomas Simpson during exploration of Great Bear Lake and the Coppermine River area. The structure burned down but was rebuilt in 1848 by Sir John Richardson and Dr. John Rae as a base of operations during the search for famous explorer Sir John Franklin, who went missing along the Arctic Coast.
Jeffery Loman, assistant director for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, announces bid for the offshore petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea in Anchorage on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. The U.S. Minerals Management Service on Wednesday opened bids within 29 million acres of the Arctic Ocean for oil exploration.
Former Alaska state Rep. Vic Kohring, left, stands with his attorney John Henry Browne, at the federal court building in Anchorage on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. Kohring's request for a new trial and the federal judge overseeing his client's case to step down because of a conflict of interest was rejected.
Berianne Charles (in bear suit), Sarah Hoida, Jessica Helgesen, second from right, and Lucas Young, right, all University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, protest Shell Oil's plant to drill for oil in Alaska on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008.
A pedestrian makes his way along Lacey Street as seen from the fifth level of the parking garage in downtown Fairbanks on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, 2008.
Ice fog blankets downtown Fairbanks as pedestrians and traffic make their way along Cushman Street on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, 2008.
A pair of moose feed in the ice fog off of the Parks Highway outside of Ester on Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2008.
Traveling from Phoenix to watch the start of the 25th Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, Megan Saxon, right, has Lance Mackey sign her poster during the Meet the Mushers gathering Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008, at the Wedgewood Resort.
Sheeri Merdes comforts Pauly, an Australian Shepherd, on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, in the Chena Ridge Veterinary Clinic after she was found partially frozen along Chena Ridge Road. Merdes, an Aussie owner herself, has been trying to recover the loose dog for the breeder in Wasilla after it ran away from its new owners three days after being delivered in August.
West Valley High School cross-country running standout Crystal Pitney talks about her college choice after signing a national letter of intent to attend Colorado State University on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, 2008.
A vehicle passes the Fairbanks International Airport time and temperature sign as it reads -42 degrees Fahrenheit Wednesday morning, February 6, 2008.
Canadian Frank Turner leaves the starting chute in the 1996 race
Two of Keith Kirkvold's dogs wait to go to the campground after they arrived in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Saturday Feb. 14, 1998, during the seventh day of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Kirkvold, a rookie from Fairbanks, led a group of fellow rookies from Fairbanks into Dawson for their mandatroy 36 hour layover.
Mark May drives his team down the trail as the moon rises Thursday evening. The leaders spent the afternoon at Mile 101 on the Steese Highway before getting underway for Angle Creek.
Two Rivers musher Tony Blanford arrives into Eagle, AK on day 6 of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race Thursday, Feb. 18, 1999.
One of musher Kyla Bovin's dogs nods off while waiting for Boivin, of Dawson City, Yukon, to get the rest of the team ready Tuesday morning Feb. 20, 2001, as they prepare to leave Eagle, Alaska.
Shannon Brockman holds one of her dogs, Spot, during a Yukon Quest vet check Sunday afternoon Feb, 3, 2002 at Summit Logistics.
Denali musher Jim Hendrick guides his team down the trail after going over King Solomon's Dome about 25 miles outside Dawson City Sunday afternoon, February 17, 2002 during the 2002 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. At over 3,800 feet King Solomon's Dome is the highest point on the 1,000 mile trail from Fairbanks, AK to Whitehorse, YT Canada.
Sonny Lindner, who won the inaugural running of the Quest, is interviewed at the finish of the Yukon Quest in 1984 in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Cor Guimond of Dawson City mushes along the Yukon Quest trail near Eagle, Alaska in the 1995 Yukon Quest.
Michelle Phillips of Tagish, Yukon heads up the Yukon River at Dawson City, Yukon Friday afternoon Feb, 20, 2004 in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.
William Kleedehn heads down the Yukon Quest trail Thursday Feb. 20, 2003. Visiable behind him is Thomas Tetz. Both mushers are from Carcross.
Rookie Blake Freking of Finland, Min., navigates his sled off of the Yukon River onto the Takhini River on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, the first day of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Twenty one mushers left the start line in Whitehorse, Yukon, for the 1,000 mile race to Fairbanks, Alaska.
Lance Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, waves at spectators gathered on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, to watch the finish of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Mackey won the 1,000 mile race from Whitehorse, Yukon, for the third year in a row. He set a new record, finishing in 10 days, 2 hours and 37 minutes.
Silver, left, the lead dog of Yukon Quest 300 musher Brent Sass, rests with his lead partner Madonna in Central on the third day of racing at the 2006 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 at the Central checkpoint. Silver broke trail off of Eagle Summit for both Sass and Yukon Quest rookie Regina Wycoff as the pair worked together to navigate through high winds and whiteout conditions that left another group of mushers lost and stranded on the mountain. The pair also had a musher with them who had lost his team. All mushers and teams were found safe and were transported by helicopter off the mountain.
Aliy Zirkle, of Two Rivers, Alaska, became the first woman to win the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race Wednesday morning, Feb. 23, 2000, finishing half an hour ahead of her nearest competitor, Thomas Tetz, of Tagish, Yukon Territory
LeRoy Shank, left, and Roger Williams co-founded the Yukon Qyest Ubterbatuibak Sled Dog Race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Murray Clayton and his wife, Crys, look through a scrapbook of the first Yukon Quest in 1984 during the Legends of Mushing social event Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, at the Fairbanks Community Museum. Clayton was the first musher to sign up for the 1,000-mile sled dog race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon.
Democratic caucus-goers crowd into Juneau's Centennial Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, 2008, waiting in long lines to register. Organizers had to change plans to make the fan-out work with so many people. Most supported Barack Obama.
Founders of the Yukon Quest, LeRoy Shank, middle, and Roger Williams, left, talk with Kevin Turnbough during the Legends of Mushing social event Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, at the Fairbanks Community Museum. Turnbough, who ran in the inaugural 1984 race, was one of the many mushers from the race's early years to attend the social celebrating the 25th anniversary of the sled dog race.
