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Firsts: ice axe, crampons, beard-frozen-to-parka, solo top trip, winter top trip.

I’m not sure I would’ve made it down safely if it weren’t for the tea and biscuits shot of calories and warmth one little climb short of the top.

The picture with the little pointy mountain is a shot east towards mainland AK and the village of Wales.

The nighttime shot is of the school, during the home-stretch back. I underestimated (badly) both how much daylight I had left and how long it’d take me.

The picture of me, that’s the only place up there where I could stand up straight-ish.

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It was a good monday afternoon :)

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Ice fog, snow and the fierce winter wind is beautiful in it’s unique way, but it’s nice to see the deep blue sky and our russian neighbor island once in a while. It’s been at least a week, maybe two, since I’ve seen something aside of white when I look out my classroom windows…

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And in unrelated news, a box with tea in it and another with a nerf gun in it came in the mail this week :-). Money can’t buy happiness, I’m a firm believer, but it can buy nerf guns. money can buy big nerf guns. and big nerf guns are up there with homemade cookies, good cigars, coffee and good tea for being close to happiness.

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see the nerf gun down there in the sneaky hiding place?
(of course, because of it's default status, the irish breakfast tea is in a lower cupboard closer to the stove)
(of course, because of it’s default status, the irish breakfast tea is in a lower cupboard closer to the stove)
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red sunset through the steam from the ocean at the edge of the sea ice, shot with freezing hands (“I’ll just step outside for a second to take a picture”) from the snowbank behind my place
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wednesday, captain mike flyin away to pick up more mail, hank takin a turn holding down the cargo.

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From the north the sea ice keeps coming from the Chukchi sea.

In the south the sun sets over the Bering sea.