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Published August 26, 2010, 12:00 AM

Alaskan getaway

Photos from the Desktop Sportsman trip to Alaska. Photos by Georgina-Carr Scallon


An aerial view of a mountain range in the Yukon.

  • An aerial view of a mountain range in the Yukon.
  • One of many waterfalls found along Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula.
  • The shoreline of Resurrection Bay. A group of seals make their home on the rock to the left.
  • A sea otter waves hello.
  • A glacier and what it leaves behind when it melts, such as riverbeds and forests.
  • "The mountains make their own weather" is a phrase heard often in Alaska as is true when one see the clouds roll in over the Alaskan Range.
  • The mountain roads of Denali National Park.
  • The unfrozen tundra.
  • A coyote stalks a caribou in the bush.
  • This young bear crosses a dry riverbed. These riverbeds are filled with water during the spring snowmelt from the mountains. The tundra bush happens to be their favorite habitat.
  • A mountain goat and her kid keeps their balance while feeding on the grass growing on this mountain.
  • A mountain alongside the Turnagain Arm, an estuary and a windy one at that, on the Kenai Peninsula just south of Anchorage.