Turnagain Arm in Cook Inlet near Anchorage is filling with moving pan ice, shooshing inland with the incoming tide.

Earthquake Park, at the end of Northern Lights Blvd Anchorage AK. I believe that is Fire Island out in the Inlet.

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A layer of freezing fog (not ice fog) near the end of the runway at Anchorage Airport, air traffic directly overhead while we were at Earthquake Park.

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...Cook Inlet and the Chugach Mountains on a frigid late afternoon.

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A colossus among the giant Wrangells, 16,237 foot Mt Sanford always haunts me when I gaze on it, bringing to mind the 1948 DC-4 plane crash on this mighty volcano, in which all 30 occupants perished, their remains forever entombed under ice and snow.

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Just off the end of the runway at Anchorage International, between the devil and the deep blue sea... a strip of land now called Earthquake Park.

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