Pictures of the Year - 2001

A selection of my favorite photos from this past year

Soldiers from Ft. Richardson's 501st Parachute infantry Regiment, Mortar Platoon, (Anchorage, AK) haul an ahkio sled to the end of a competative run between battalionson a cold November morning.
Cold Soldiers 		John Stenglein, 7, holds a photo of the wolf that bit him April 26 at the Icy Bay logging camp where his family lives and works. His mother, Diane, is in the background.
Wolfboy 		After being swallowed, a rainbow fingerling peers out of the gullet of a northern pike, one of two kept in a lobby aquarium exhibit at the Anchorage headquarters of the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game. The department has declared an &quotopen season" on the illegally transplanted species.
In-Digestion 		Montanan Doug Swingley drives his dog team over almost bare tundra just outside the hub village of Unalkleet in the 2001 Iditarod.
Barren tundra
Water flows around a polished boulder and aspen leaf in Falls Creek south of Anchorage.
Fall leaf 		Dawn etches the Chugach Range skyline as an illuminated American flag hangs on an Anchorage church.
Flag & Mountains 		A young moose eyeballs a tiny fawn figurine in the front yard of an Anchorage, Alaska home.
Moose & Bambi 		Vessels involved in the effort to cleanup diesel fuel spilled when the fishing tender Windy Bay struck a reef near Olsen Island work in concert in a heavy sheen area.
PWS Fuel Spill

Doug Swingley arrives in White Mt. Tuesday afternoon. After the Lincoln, Montana, musher takes his mandatory 8-hour rest here, he is poised to win his fourth Iditarod, his third in a row.

Iditarod Winner

 

 

Copyright © Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News

A quartet of cross country skiers makes its way across the open foothills of the Kenai Mountains in Turnagain Pass.

Turnagain Pass Skiers