Here is a sign welcoming one to The North Slope Borough--the largest municipality in the world.  Yeah.  -I guess a town, roughly the size of Texas, is pretty cool.  :)



   And here is a picture of the northern-most tree on the Alaskan pipeline---amazingly enough, it is a WHITE spruce.  (!)



   And here is a really cool view from a sort of plateau in the Brooks Range:



   And here is a view of the Alaskan Pipeline--emerging from Atigun Pass.



   And here is another picture of the pipeline--marching off into the distance, over the endless arctic tundra.

   *ADDENDUM* This was my very first view of arctic tundra.   (!!)



   And here is a picture of me, pushing northward.  I'm not sure if this is a good thing--but I think I am really starting to "look like an Alaskan."



   Hmm. . . .  -Sharp lookin' guy.  :)

On to more pictures.