Mining Camp Blacksmith Shop–Fairbanks Creek, Alaska
Side of blacksmith shop at Fairbanks Creek. I was out at an old mining camp north of Fairbanks when there was just a little snow on the ground (way before the current cold...
Tagged: Ramblings
Roadhouse Road Trip – Fall 2011
We took one last trip in our camper before freeze-up—a 500-mile round-trip down the Richardson Highway to Gakona Junction, up the Tok Cut-off to Tok, and then home via the Alaska Highway and Richardson...
The Trail to Eldorado, Chatanika Valley, Alaska
Last post I published a drawing of an old building at Little Eldorado Creek and talked about the area’s history. This time I’m putting up some photos from my hike out there a few...
1942 GMC truck I spotted along Alaska Highway
1942 GMC near Northway Junction, Alaska I drove down to the Beaver Creek (Canada) area this summer. Along the Alaska Highway near Northway Junction (approximate milepost 1260) sits this old 1942 GMC truck. Stenciled...
An Afternoon at John Haines’s Homestead
Poem of the Forgotten by John Haines* I came to this place, a young man green and lonely. Well quit of the world, I framed a house of moss and timber, called it a...
Autumn at Livengood
We drove up to Livengood (about 80 miles north of Fairbanks) last week. Livengood is an old mining community that was a going concern in the early 1900s. There used to be a large...
