 Nome, Alaska. Note the gold excavator in the foreground. |
 We came to Nome to conduct a Walrus survey. |
 Downtown Nome. The Russian Orthodox church has been restored, but it is not an active church. |
I took many of these pics, but about half of them come from Jeremy or the scientists we flew with, specifically Brad and Morgan. |
 Hanson's Trading Co. is actually a Safeway that also sells clothing and hardware. |
 The welcome sign is a giant pan, in the foreground is a shovel from a big mechanical excavator. |
 A closeer view of an excavator shovel. |
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 Nome gets its most visitors for the Iditarod. It ended a couple weeks before we got there. |
 Wyatt Earp was here? Amd Jimmy Doolittle grew up here. |
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 Upstairs in this Saloon is where we paid the Native Corporation for our aviation fuel. |
 Pizza chinese. Its rival was "Chinese Pizza". |
 People walkking for exercise on the frozen Bering Sea. |
 No comment. |
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 The Nome National Forest. |
 They put their Christmas Trees out on the ice. |
 They wager over when the ice will melt and the forest dissappear. |
