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| It was warm the first couple days... | but cooled off later in the week |
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| The Wedgewood, where we stayed, originally built for pipeline workers | An Italian place across the street |
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| Courthouse | A typical bus stop |
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| Old city hall, now a museum | The current city hall |
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| Main power plant | A cabin nearby |
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| Tribal center | Veterans memorial |
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| The ACS Open Dog Sled Race, starting on 2nd Avenue downtown | |
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| View across Chena River towards new state courthouse | |
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| 3,123 miles to San Francisco | Ice sculpture outside visitors center |
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| The pipeline, a few miles out of town | Don't climb, and tell someone if it's leaking oil |
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| From President Harding's visit to the state | A sternwheeler, from the gold rush |
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| Noyes Slough, used by snowmachines, bikers, walkers and dog sleds when frozen | A drain pipe |
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| The river starting to break up | Sunset from Creamer's Field |
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| The International Arctic Research Center | |
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| Inside the 1st floor of IARC | Elvey Hall |
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| Sunset on a walk to the hotel | |
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| Neon | Downtown in 1967 |
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| Outlets | Snow depth meter on fire hydrant |
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| Block heater plug, found on almost all cars in town | Our rental plugged in for the night |
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| Bridge of flags | Ice hotel at Chena Hot Springs |
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| A junkyard outside town | Musk ox at the Large Animal Research Station |
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| These can be found all over town | Dog sled trails abound |
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| Santa Claus House in North Pole | North Pole PD |
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| Sunset in North Pole | |
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