Old Photo Albums > Other Pictures from 2004 (65)
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04-01-31.jpg
This old house sits on the bank of the river and was an appealing photo. I printed this picture and hung it in my office at work. After three different people came in my office, asked about that picture, and muttered something negative under their breath as they walked away, I realized there was a story there, and quickly took the picture down.
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04-03-12.jpg
Stephanie reads to her young students.
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04-03-15.jpg
Students in the community play basketball in the spring and sub-zero degree, sunny weather.
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04-03-20steph.jpg
Stephanis is bundled up.
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04-03-29connie1.jpg
This picture the others following on this page are all from the Spring Carnival dog races. Each spring, mushers from Fort Yukon and surrounding areas get together to race. Here, Connie races in the women's race.
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04-03-29connie2.jpg
And she's off! The packs of wildly barking dogs immediately go silent as they are given the command to run.
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04-03-29icewindow.jpg
Frost gathers around the edges of our bedroom window.
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04-03-29race1.jpg
Bryan Neubert anchors the sled as Carissa gets ready to go.
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04-03-29race2.jpg
These dogs are bred to run, and that is all they want to do. They become excited to the point of agitation, and bark and lunge at the line in their eagerness to go.
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04-04-03richard1.jpg
Richard Carroll gives his dogs some last minute encouragement before they race.
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04-04-03sledingkids2.jpg
There aren't many hills around Fort Yukon, but kids will find what there are.
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04-04-03snowbaby1.jpg
Kids can play outside at zero degrees!
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04-04-03stephchili1.jpg
Stephanie cooks for the Spring Carnival chili cookoff...
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04-04-03stephchili2.jpg
and then kicks back on the banks of the Yukon while her chili goes through its final boil.
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04-04-05stephwins1.jpg
and of course wins first place and the cash prize.
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04-04-10beaver1.jpg
Heimo checks his beaver set on the river.
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04-04-10beaver4.jpg
Heimo catches a young beaver, called a kitten.
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04-04-10beaver6.jpg
Stephanie hold up the small beaver... I think we ate this one.
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04-04-24condiments.jpg
For Stephanie's birthday, we flew to Anchorage and drove to Seward, a quaint little sea-side town, and had lunch at a cafe. During lunch, I took this picture, and it will always remind me of Stephanie's birthday.
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04-04-25denali.jpg
The peaks of Denali spike through the clouds as photographed from the plane window.
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04-05-01duckhunt1.jpg
Stephanie, Edna and Rhonda cleaning ducks on the front porch of the Korth's house.
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04-05-01duckhunt2.jpg
Smoke wafts from the chimney of the Korth's house
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04-05-01duckhunt3.jpg
Heimo films video as the women pluck and gut ducks
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04-05-01duckhunt5.jpg
Blood...
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04-05-07maysnow1.jpg
This was in may... when most of the snow had already melted, and we got a nice morning blanket of snow.
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04-05-15goosehunt1.jpg
Heimo Korth captains the boat
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04-05-15goosehunt2.jpg
Stephanie plucks a Canadian... the only goose on this particular day.
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04-05-15goosehunt3.jpg
This was our trench and our blind... slabs of ice that are deposited on bars and slowly melt
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04-05-17korthbook1.jpg
A book was recently written about Heimo. We ordered it on Amazon, and this was the first final copy that the Korth's had actually seen.
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04-07-07IMG_3894.jpg
The mighty Yukon River. This is facing directly south. This is the boat landing, where many boats are tied up. Fairbanks is across the river and nearly 200 miles further ahead.
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04-11-25fredlynx.jpg
On Thanksgiving morning, my neighbor Fred took me out to check is Lynx trap. This big boy was as long as Fred was tall.
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