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| A Typical View from McCarthy | Allyson's Workplace for the Summer (with our living quarters on the left in the background) | Allyson with her Workmate, Ruby |
Alaska 2007
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| A Typical View from McCarthy | Allyson's Workplace for the Summer (with our living quarters on the left in the background) | Allyson with her Workmate, Ruby |
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| Clear Creek: Our Drinking Water Source | Walking around on the Root Glacier | |
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| A Leaf on the Root Glacier | Allyson above a Glacial Waterfall | Sippin' the Good Stuff |
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| A Moulin | A View of the Root Glacier, the Kennicott Glacier, Donahoe Peak and 16,390 ft. Mt Blackburn in the Distance | |
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| My Only Shower that Week | The Mill Buidling for the old Kennecott Copper Mine | |
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| The Old Tram Station that Tim now Calls Home | Allyson's First Encounter with Snow | Snow on My Head |
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| The Old Bonanza Mine Building | Artifacts Near Bonanza Mine | |
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| Enjoying the View from the Mine Building | The Building from Above | Me on the Roof of Bonanza Mine |
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| A Pile of Iron | An Old Locker Room? | Me on Bonanza Ridge |
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| The Morrison Brother's Band Playing at the Toe of the Glacier Under the Midnight Sun on Solstice | A Moose Crossing the Nizina River | The Nizina Bluffs |
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| McCarthy from Above | The Chitina River? | A River, Maybe the Tana? |
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| Glacial Pools | A Glacier Extending from the Bagley Ice Field | Iceburgs in a Glacial Pond |
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| The Bagley Ice Field (a field of ice larger than Rhode Island) | A Dramatically Glaciated Peak on the Bagley | We had Gary drop us off in the Chugach Backcountry (40 miles from the next human) and pick us up four days later. |
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| Our Tent in the Backcountry | The Lake Behind our Tentsite | |
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| Also Near our Tent | Refreshing! | Sandy Bluffs |
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| Iceburg Lakebed (the lake drains anually and leaves iceburgs strewn about) | An Iceburg | A Ptarmigan |
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| Hiking Across an Unnamed Glacier to the other side of the Valley | An Ice Cave in an Unnamed Glacier | |
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| "I Hate Walking on these Rocks!" | The Alpine Paradise on the other side of the Valley | |
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| Lunch | The Alpine Lake we Found Over a Pass on the other Side of the Valley | |
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| The View Back Across the Valley | Hiking Back Across the Glacial Moraine | Allyson Above a Fanned Glacial Waterfall |
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| Crossing a Creek | A Ptarmigan that let me Pick him up | Back to our Lake |
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| Skipping Rocks on the Lake | About the Closest Thing we Saw to a Sunset | Sliding on Snowfields |
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| Shooting Cans | Bouldering | |
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| Baby Ptarmigans | Iceburg Lake in the Background | Gary Coming to Pick us Up |
Then my Camera Stopped Working.
