For a Sunday drive we decided to head north for change along the Elliott Highway. A quick 28 miles from Fairbanks is the Wickersham Dome trail, which weaves through a stunted spruce forest and emerges above the treeline at several rocky clearings like the one pictured above, with stunning views of the White Mountains and the rolling hills that encircle Fairbanks. We had hoped to make the seven mile out and back trek to the summit, but without skies or snowshoes, the deep snow had us turned around just short of the finish line. Not much in the way of wildlife sightings, but we saw numerous snowshoe hare, ptarmigan, moose, and Reef tracks in the snow.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM +1.4x, ISO-400 f/5.6 @ 1/800 sec
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