Logbook entry: Transition - Point Lay to Kaktovik, via Barrow and Fairbanks

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Weather station, in fog - where's the snow?

Hmmmmm.... I am scheduled to fly to Point Lay early Friday morning. I wonder if I will go? If you read these words, then I did go. I am preparing this post on a foggy Thursday night. Before I go to bed, I will set it to post at 10:00 AM - about the time I am scheduled to arrive in Point Lay. So, if I fly, it will appear just as it is now.

If I don't fly, then I will change this post before the scheduled post time of 10:00 AM.

Make sense?

This, by the way, is the Barrow weather station. 

It can snow during any month of the year and in fact, it has snowed, before I came. Even Wednesday morning, there were a few flakes on the ground but they didn't last long. When I first started coming to Barrow, the snow always set in for good by this date and so did freezeup.

I remember elders at the time saying that when they were growing up, snow and freezup came before August ended. Today, Fannie Akpik told me that when she was a girl, freezeup generally came during the first week of September.

Now, sometimes, it doesn't come until October.

We will see what it does this year. Maybe it will snow and freezeup will settle in before the day ends. I kind of doubt it, but maybe.

Iñupiaq hospitality: uunaalik for lunch, two tuttu soups and maktak for dinner; beach walker seen from opposite sides of the green boat; girls on wooden walkway; Tlingit lullaby; Melanie departs hungry

Somewhere between 11:30 and noon, I stopped at the

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Logbook entry: I leave home to go home - transition from Wasilla to the surf of Barrow

Going through security was bad, though. I have told

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Light fog, Alaska Airlines, a funeral almost missed

As I had long ago promised the Mahoney's I would join them in

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