I spent 3 weeks working in the ER at Maniilaq Health Center...the hospital in Kotzebue, AK. Kotzebue is located about 23 miles north of the Arctic Circle, on the Chukchi sea. It was very cold there, about -35 at 'night'. We got a few hours of sun every day, but it stays pretty low in the sky. It's actually quite dry there, and doesn't get much snow, but when the wind blows it creates very bad ground blizzard conditions that make travel impossible. It was an amazing place and I hope to go back this spring again, and get out hunting with some people I met there. Below is Easter and her little foster son Joe. Easter made a Parkee for me...and I spent a lot of time in her home with her and her husband.
I worked 17 twelve hour shifts in 21 days, and that included flying back to Anchorage for 48 hours. I took all the following photos one nice day...my only day off while I was there. It's about -25 out. Below is looking out across the ocean towards the Brooks Range mountains and the Kobuk River Valley.
2 stroke graveyard
After days of intense wind, everything gets a good coating of rime.
Cold Boats
I worked 17 twelve hour shifts in 21 days, and that included flying back to Anchorage for 48 hours. I took all the following photos one nice day...my only day off while I was there. It's about -25 out. Below is looking out across the ocean towards the Brooks Range mountains and the Kobuk River Valley.
2 stroke graveyard
After days of intense wind, everything gets a good coating of rime.
Cold Boats
