Strange and interesting observations in Alaska

HAHA I found that very funny for some reason.

Can you see Elenin yet?

Can you see Russia from your back porch???

homo...lmao

Post pics! I love rainbows!

With a good scope on a clear day, If I hike up about 1000ft.

Where in Alaska are you located? I spent a fair amount of time in & around Fairbanks. Even visited Skinny Dick's back when it was still running.

Ever think of taking some pics for us on GLP?

I can see quite a few moving objects in the night sky.

What's a grass-hopper?

I was being sarcastic... But i'm sure I could if I drove over to Palins house. it's about 15 min from my house.

its called radiation

I've lived in Alaska a lot longer then you and my ancestors have been here for 12000 years and I've seen plenty of grasshoppers. Mostly near floodplains but they can be anywheres. I've also seen a salamander here which the white immigrants will say don't exist here but I saw it with my own eyes.

Is it a sign of the end? Well since no where is Alaska is a safe zone I would hope not but even our ancestors know a time is coming when the earth will shake and the foundations of the world will change. And I know the stories of how the Alaskan survivors made it. It was difficult and grim and no one in the interior of Alaska had a chance but some survived near the coasts. The clueless swarm of immigrants know nothing of this. Their settlements are mostly within 200 ft of sea level with no strategy.

Good thing I have a strategy then. What tribe are you from. My wife is Aleut.

Threw in a double rainbow that I spotted behind my house.

got moose?

like a small dog.

Last week.

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Last Edited by coldfiremx84 on 08/18/2011 03:34 PM

Same here

Ok i fixed the picture links, sorry I'm new on here and still figuring out what the best way to post stuff.

Here in Northern IL, we noticed after a rainstorm how vivid the rainbow was. Like yours, we could see purple! Usually, the purple is so dull, it's barely visible.

I bet it's the intensity of the sun I guess increases the colorization and brightness of the rainbow.

Nice! I was surpised how many wild horses (not to mention moose) ran out in front of us on the highway between Tok & Glenallen.

Alutiiq although they used to call the alutiiq's aleuts but aleuts are a little further down the islands. Both tribes had it pretty bad with first the Russians then the Americans. Which is why you might detect I have a lack of sympathy on the fate of the immigrants. Especially after last weekend. I saw some of the most disgraceful lack of respect for the resource behavior from dumb ass white immigrants while they were fishing.

But they don't have a monopoly on idiocy and we are all in it together and unfortunately I don't think many natives will survive either because just like the Hopi said most are asleep and some seem to me to be in a coma and only a handful will wake up.

Last time the disaster happened water reached about halfway up the coastal mountain peaks perhaps even higher and washed through interior Alaska destroying that whole area. And the arctic plains saw the ocean wash whales up onto the flanks of the Brooks range. So an underground bunker in the Matanuska/Susitna valley or Anchorage flood plain or most any other community in Ak would not be a good idea. In fact the Mat/su has a region geologists have identified as the same ripple marks as shown in the Washington scablands showing not just a flood but a sustained flow 100's of feet deep roared through there.

I'll be heading to the Alutiiq office later today. My personal stance on Alaska is that I wish it were a sovereign land, and not part of the USA. Not all of the white "immigrants" you are talking about are disrespectful. It is obvious to me where the water used to be, you can see it in the geography of the valley in Palmer/Wasilla. I'll be going for the mountains if I get a fair warning.

Beautiful rainbows! :)

I don't take responsibility for what was done to the indigenous of the Americas, but I do feel compassion for you and I do feel an anger and rage about it. I know that's probably meaningless to you, but for what it's worth, there it is.

We all have to share this world. I wish we were a lot better at caring for it. My ancestry is of people who were white slaves. I never got any training on how to interact with the world in a way that works with it rather than against it.

But I do care, and I've been doing a lot of work to overcome that and learn for myself, and to start a new paradigm for my daughter.

May we all find peace together, and especially with Earth and our habitat.

Those are beautiful photos, even without being as bright as they actually were.

Thanks for sharing them, and please keep us posted if you notice anything else.

There are threads all over about missing or unusually abundant wildlife. For example, there are almost no pollinators here, almost no birds, either... but an extreme surplus of squirrels.

If we keep track of these things and don't just shrug them off, maybe a pattern will emerge--even if it's just "something ain't right".

(Here: New Hampshire)

The photos just don't do the rainbows justice. they were taken with my crappy phone. As far as animal stuff the only abnormal thing up here is the fish arent biting for crap once they hit fresh water. Usually silvers and kings (salmon) bite good but I have been having the worst luck apparently. I haven't even really been seeing other people catch either.