MovetoFairbanks

MovetoFairbanks


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move01TheCar Cross Country Trip from Pittsburgh, PA to Fairbanks, AK. In order to travel northwest to Alaska, Kate and I bought a new vehicle - a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. This was very useful to tow a U-Haul across the country. move01TheCar
move02BadlandsNP In mid-July 2002, Kate and I went sight-seeing throughout several western states on our way to Fairbanks, Alaska to begin graduate school. The first stop was in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. move02BadlandsNP
move03KateatBadlandsNP I got a nice action shot of Kate with the nice scenery of the Badlands on a very hot day. move03KateatBadlandsNP
move04CrazyHorseMonument The next stop was to Crazy Horse Mountain. move04CrazyHorseMonument
move05CrazyHorseMonumentandModel The tribute to Crazy Horse isn't finished yet, so I also took a photo of the model and the actual mountain. move05CrazyHorseMonumentandModel
move06MtRushmore We made it to Mount Rushmore in time that same evening to see the lighting of the Monument. move06MtRushmore
move07KateatDevilsTower The next day Kate and I stopped off at Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming. I took a photo of Kate and the Tower,... move07KateatDevilsTower
move08SteveatDevilsTower ...then she took one with Me and the Tower. move08SteveatDevilsTower
move09MooseinYellowstone The next stop was to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. While in the park we came upon our very first moose in the wild. It was pretty cool to see. We also saw two coyotes in the park. move09MooseinYellowstone
move10LowerFallsYellowstone Kate and I went to the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. move10LowerFallsYellowstone
move11KateatLowerFalls I took a photo of Kate next to the edge of the Lower Falls. move11KateatLowerFalls
move12SteveatUpperFalls We then went to the Upper Falls where she took a photo of me near the edge of the Upper Falls. move12SteveatUpperFalls
move13TowerFallsYellowstone The last thing we went to in the park was to Tower Falls on or near the Yellowstone River. move13TowerFallsYellowstone
move14GrandTetons2 Our next stop was to drive through Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming on our way to Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. move14GrandTetons2
move15CraterLakeandSmokeyMoon Next, was to head for Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. We got there around sunset, but the moon was also coming up. I took what would have been a great shot of the crater and the moon, but it was very smokey from the wildfires in southwest Oregon in 2002. move15CraterLakeandSmokeyMoon
move16CraterLakefromDistance The next morning I took a nice photo a distance from Crater Lake with the sign describing the view. move16CraterLakefromDistance
move17KateandIatCraterLake Kate and I got some better photos at the crater rim that morning. move17KateandIatCraterLake
move18WizardIslandCraterLakeMorning A smokey Wizard Island that morning. move18WizardIslandCraterLakeMorning
move19CraterLakeWallsMirrorImage The smoke wasn't bad that morning so that we could see the reflection of the crater walls in the water. move19CraterLakeWallsMirrorImage
move20WizardIsland1 Later in the morning more smoke cleared for better views of Wizard Island. move20WizardIsland1
move21WizardIsland2 Another shot of Wizard Island... move21WizardIsland2
move22WizardIsland3 ...and another... move22WizardIsland3
move23WizardIsland4 ...and another from a different angle. move23WizardIsland4
move24MtStHelensandMtAdams We left Crater Lake and headed north to Mount St. Helens, Washington. This is a place I have always wanted to go to, and I finally got the chance to see it. We got there a couple hours before sunset. We came at it from the west just as the moon was beginning to rise from the east. We could also see Mt. Adams (on the left) from the area. Mt. Adams is another of the Cascade volcanoes, but it is pretty much inactive. move24MtStHelensandMtAdams
move25MtStHelensfromWest The view from the west with the volcano and the moon looking southeast over the crater. move25MtStHelensfromWest
move26KateandIatMtStHelens I sat the camera on a wall to snap a shot of Kate and I with the volcano in the background. move26KateandIatMtStHelens
move27MtStHelensandMoon We headed to a point near the Johnston Ridge Visitors Center, but since it was closed we stopped off to just take some great images of the volcano with the moon looking south into the crater. move27MtStHelensandMoon
move28MtStHelensMoonandTrees From the same area I took another photo with Mount St. Helens, the moon, and a couple of the trees that were knocked down in the direction of the blast from 1980. move28MtStHelensMoonandTrees
move29MtStHelensTreeTrunk Before we left the area for the night I took a picture of one of the tree stumps left over from the 1980 eruption. You can just see how the blast totally obliterated the trees nearest the volcano. move29MtStHelensTreeTrunk
move30MtStHelensLavaDomeandFumarole The next day we went back to the Johnston Ridge Visitors Center. The volcano that morning was either having some hydrothermal activity on the western rim, or some rock falls on that same rim. move30MtStHelensLavaDomeandFumarole
move31JohnstonVisitorsCenter Johnston Ridge Visitors Center, named after volcanologist David A. Johnston, who lost his life on May 18, 1980. He was only 5 miles north of the volcano in the path of the lateral blast. move31JohnstonVisitorsCenter
move32MtStHelensLivesLost Kate and I then took a walk on the trail that eventually came to a memorial to the 57 lives that were lost on May 18, 1980. move32MtStHelensLivesLost
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