(uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) Now this one is interesting! This is a surveyor's mark--from 19-early something.  During the Gold Rush, this would've been a spot almost surrealistically difficult to reach---the end of the Frontier.  Now, while still being the end of the Frontier--the end of surveyed property, which can be privately owned--it's just a short hop off of Chena Hot Springs Road.

      This is a piece of history:

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) And here, not terribly much of a "going concern" :), is an old prospector's cabin.  This really should be documented by a historian--if not by an archeologist.   ;) -And yet, here it sits, rotting away in time. . . .  (Alaska--unfortunately--can really be like that---and all over.  :P :( )

      Shown above is Cliff - Dude.  He like, lives around there, 'n stuff.

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) And here, right across the way, is the old mine working---sealed with a cap of dirt.

      As I mentioned before--during the Gold Rush days, these places would've been almost surrealistically difficult to reach.  This mine must've been producing. . . .

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) A moose rub:

      They grow, like, really itchy velvet, 'n stuff.  They rub up on trees to get rid of it, 'n stuff.

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) I thought that this one was interesting.  (I stopped here to buy a mask to protect my aging lungs from the grievious smoke from Alaska's "forest fire season."  :P ) I thought it showed an interesting mixture of safety, and, well . . . paintball guns, 'n stuff.  :) :)

      :) :)

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) I allowed for the possibility that this dude was dead---the ultimate rhinoceros deficiency.  He rode along on his bike, stopped, and lay on the bench---for something like six hours.  (!!!!)

      I thought that he might have died from the smoke (easily--if not inevitably--seen in the pic); however, when I went to check on him, he was moving his feet.  Later, he was gone---never to be seen again. . . .

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) (I suppose I could look this one up on a "lunar table. . . .")  This one was REALLY cool to the human eye--a bloated, full moon--at something like 1:30 in the morning (The arctic moon--like the arctic sun--does some very odd things. . . .  :) ).  However, with my cheapo--and, at this point, broken--camera, this barely works at all. . . .  ( :P :P )

On to more Alaska pics.