Aerial view of Nome, March 2004 in higher resolution.  In the far background, you can make out gold Dredge Number Five, now inactive.  At bottom left, the specks on the ocean ice are last Christmas' surplus trees, all of them air freighted from the Lower 48, "planted" in holes drilled into the ice.  Although Nome has no natural trees (but see Tom's Nome Tree Page), the "Nome National Forest" serves as a fanciful woods until the ocean ice clears out each year. (267k)

 

Aerial view of Nome, March 21, 1999, taken from the northeast, looking southwest across the town, to the Bering Sea ice and Sledge Island in the distance. (48k)

Aerial view of Nome,  March 2004, showing the core of the town.  Visible at  left center is the restored 1901 Old St. Joe's, its cross the highest point in town.   Built in 1901, the church was decommissioned and in the 1990's, moved to its present location and restored, to be used as a meeting hall.   At bottom, AT&T's satellite dish, through which much of Nome's communications passes.  At bottom right is the orange state office building.    Two blocks behind it, the two-story gray building with blue roof is the KNOM studios.  At the rear, the large green building on "Chicken Hill" is the Alaska Commercial Company grocery store.  (332k)

Nome's Anvil City Square aerial view, March 2004, showing Old St. Joe's.  The square is surrounded by large dredge buckets, originally used to carry ore assembly-line fashion.  To the left of the church, the black object is an immense gold pan, and to its lower left, statues of the "Three Lucky Swedes."  The intersection at lower right is First Avenue and Lane's Way, and behind the town lies Dry Creek.   Front left is the Sitnasuak Native Corporation office building on the north side of Front Street.   (389k)

Aerial image of west Nome, viewed from the ocean.  One-third from the bottom, the round-topped false front building is the Discovery Saloon, now a private home.  When fire broke out on Steadman Avenue between 1st and 3rd Streets in September 1934, winds swept flames westward and virtually destroyed the town.  The Discovery Saloon was the first building saved; virtually everything east of it burned.  In the distance, next to Nome's emergency water tank, stands the Nome Recreation Center.  March 2005 (276k)

Aerial panorama showing the eastern half of Nome.  The broad street at left center is Steadman Avenue.  March 2005 (337k)

1973 aerial photograph of Nome.  May 1973 (279k)

Panoramic image of Nome from the northwest, June 2002.  (416k)

   

Street Map of Nome (87k)

Replat of Nome, as ordered by the common council on October 3, 1934, following the city's devastating September 17th fire.  This fascinating plat shows the old, narrow 1899-1934 Front Street referenced to the current wide street's location, as well as other streets eliminated and created, and indicates the area of Nome which burned.  The fire began in a hotel on Steadman Avenue between First and Third Avenues, and spread rapidly due to brisk NE winds.  (602k)

Front Street, looking NE. Visible are the Glue Pot hangout at left and the Sitnasuak Native Corporation headquarters. May 1997.  (58k)

The Glue Pot, Nome's all-night hamburger hangout and pawn shop. March 1999. (67k) June 2006.  (118k)

  

Pull tab parlor, Front Street, June 2006. (91k)

New Sushi bar at Milano's Japanese/Pizza, June 2006. (105k)

The Breakers Bar and Anchor Tavern, two of Nome's fine establishments, June 2006 (100k)

Vintage mining equipment in Nome's East End park, June 2006.  (144k, 147k)

Bust of Roald Amundsen in front of Nome City Hall.  On May 11, 1926, Amundsen and a crew of 15 departed Spitzbergen, Norway aboard a dirigible named Norge (Norway).  The pilot was Umberto Nobile, who had constructed the air ship in Rome.  At the North Pole, they dropped Italian, Norwegian and American flags, and headed for Nome.  Although the flight was billed as "Rome to Nome," high winds forced them to land in the small village of Teller, 59 air miles northwest of Nome, on May 16th.  Others had claimed to have flown over the North Pole before this party, but their claims are dubious.  This was also the first travel from Europe to North America by air.  It was Amundsen who, at the conclusion of this trip,  brought word to the world that there is no land mass at the North Pole.  June 2006.  (127 k)

Eskimo drummers march in Nome's Midnight Sun Festival parade June 19, 1999. (68k)

For locals, the top feature of the Midnight Sun Festival is Sunday's Nome River Raft Race, a carefree event that begins at mile 13 of the Kougarok Road and ends near mile 8. Top prize is a fur-lined honeybucket. June 20, 1999. (65k)

 
 

June 22, 2003, the KNOM and friends crew pull their raft through some shallow water of the Nome River.   (226k)

A few moments later, the KNOM crew sailed triumphant in deeper water.  A half-mile later, the raft capsized and everyone but Julia Dunlap (paddling at front) was thrown into the drink.  In tricorner hat, KNOM news director Paul Korchin, with KNOM'er Amy Flaherty waving.  (230k)

 

An old dredge at Osborn Creek, a tributary of the Nome River, 7 miles northeast of Nome.  It was named by a prospector in 1899.  This view is from the Beam Road, June 2006 (109k)

Sledge Island, 25 mi. SW of Nome, aerial. View looking west from approximately 3,000 ft. altitude. A refuge for walrus, its last human habitation ended in the mid 1940's. From Nome, it often appears miraged. The island was named by Captain James Cook, as on the mainland beach opposite the island he sighted a sledge (sled).  (45k)

The southern tip of Sledge Island, seen from the east.  March 2005 (231k)

Viewed from the northwest, the side of Sledge Island that is hidden from Nome.  March 2005 (269k)

Sledge Island from Nome, on an exceptionally clear day.  The fata morgana mirage is building across the lowest portion of the island.  November 15, 2003 (136k)

A more typical view from Nome, with a more pronounced fata morgana, June 2006. (132k)

The former Our Lady of Lourdes chapel at Pilgrim Hot Springs, 50 miles north of Nome, July 2000.    The easternmost shoulder of the Kigluaik Mountains, 6 miles distant, is visible at left.  Photo by Florence Busch. (136k)

   

A path at Pilgrim Hot Springs.  Once home to Eskimo children orphaned during the 1918 influenza pandemic, the springs are a bumpy sixty mile drive from Nome, June through September. You can bathe in the murky hot springs and walk the - for the Nome area - lush surroundings. However, beware of bears!  Photo by Florence Busch. (83k)

Wild (inedible) celery and fireweed grow alongside the foot path into Pilgrim Hot Springs, July 2000.  The Kigluaik Mountains are 4 miles distant; the highest point in this image, left of center, is peak 3535.  Photo by Florence Busch.  (134k)

   

A closeup of the plants above.  Photo by Florence Busch. (162k)

A grassy meadow at Pilgrim Hot Springs, July 2000.  Photo by Florence Busch.  (122k)

   

For a week surrounding the winter solstice, the sun at "high noon" rises only 2.1 degrees above the horizon.  That's the thickness of your thumb held at arm's length.  December 17, 2000.  (102k)

Two of the four gigantic Alaska Communications Systems microwave antennas atop Anvil Mountain, built in 1957 as part of a long daisy-chain to link the Tin City military radar site with the outside world.  The system was decommissioned in 1974, but the dishes remain as landmarks.  Note the red hat of the boy standing in front.  (82k)

   

A view of the northwesternmost antenna.   (110k)

Anvil Rock, a natural landmark for which 1100-foot Anvil Mountain is named, 4.5 miles north of Nome.  (117k)

   

Nome River breakup, 13 mi. N of Nome. A creek, really, the Nome River originates in the Kigluaik Mountains about 25 miles north of Nome, and is accessible by road at the mouth, and from about mile 8 all the way to the headwaters. Photo by Kathleen Busch. May 1996. (70k)

Nome River breakup, May 3, 2003.  (224k

Our cabin north of Nome on March 21, 1999.  It's made of two 1900 gold rush shacks bolted together. Plus, of course, the outhouse. (59k)

Autumn's first snow on the deck of our cabin, October 8, 2000 (38k).

   

Here's the view out our northeast cabin window, looking toward the Nome River. October 1997 (61k).

Inside the cabin on May 5, 2001.  It's not as sumptuous as the photo would indicate. (136k)

   

Four blizzards hammered Nome between February 5 and February 12, 2001.  Here's the view outside our front window during the third.  (47k)

In Nome, snow is almost always accompanied by gusty, high winds.  In places, the ground blows clear.  In others, it doesn't.  February 10, 2001.  (70k)

   

Wilderness beach, 25 mi. E of Nome. Located just east of Safety Sound, this is among about 20 miles of quiet, accessible beach along the Bering Sea. Late spring, watch for pods of walrus toward the horizon. At other times you might see a whale or a porpoise, but unfortunately, you might also encounter a grizzly bear. (46k)

With each spring melt, a mysterious green fluid, locally known as "shark repellant" or "green slime" runs down Steadman Avenue to the Bering Sea. May 1998. (30k)

   

The "slime" is actually World War II marine marker dye, which leaks from this lot near 5th and Steadman every spring. May 1998. (38k)

Nome kids frolic at the edge of shorefast ice, May 1997. The Nome Rotary Club holds its "Polar Bear Swim" here, on Memorial Day every year; often, the event has to be postponed due to dangerous ice conditions. (86k)

   

Nome's infamous Board of Trade Saloon on the Bering Sea (south) side of Front Street. May 1997. "Sin City of the Arctic," the sign proudly proclaims.  (75k)

Nome's House of Bargains.  October 2000 (103k)

One of the spires of Nome's 1946-1994 St. Joseph's Church now serves as part of a residence on Fourth Avenue.  (The other spire is part of a fish camp at Nuuk, approximately 20 miles east of Nome on the Nome-Council Road. )  June 2002 (125k)

 

Its mate sits at Nuuk, some 30 miles east of Nome on the Nome-Council Highway.  June 2004 (117k)

Located just off the end of Nome's runway 09, the Nome cemetary  is home for hundreds of graves, many from the early 1900's gold rush, many of the wooden crosses deteriorated or missing. June 1997.  (38k)

   

Alaska cotton flowers ot the tundra just NW of Nome. The tall steeple is the now-restored 1901 St. Joseph's Church. The Bering Sea is just visible, three blocks south of the church. June 1997.  (44k)

Swanberg's dredge sifted Nome's golden sands in the 1940's. It's a mile east of Nome's downtown and not only a favorite tourist snapshot, but also a must-stop destination for serious birders. During the Iditarod Race, KNOM calls the police department when each musher reaches Swanberg's Dredge, and the cops engage a greeting over the town's fire siren. June 1997.  (37k)

   

Closeup of Swanberg's Dredge. (129 k) Detail of Swanberg's Dredge wall.  (194k) Swanberg's Dredge 2006 inhabitant. (58k)   All images June, 2006

Alaska Airlines' N743AS offloads passengers and freight at Nome on a windy February night.  The jet is one of the airlines' eight "combi" 737-200's, which carry both passengers and freight.  February 2001.  (105k). See Tom's combi page, with the entire Alaska combi fleet,  manufacturing dates, serial numbers, Flight Simulator aircraft and more images.

Grow flowers in Nome? You bet, if they're indiginous. Alongside our house we've planted Arctic poppies and the woody tundra rose (shrubby cinqfoil). June 1997. We've had a succesful 16 x 30-foot grass lawn since 1984, a black spruce that's grown to 6-feet tall, and a cottonwood tree that's almost eight feet high! Stop by and see us at 225 King Place, about two blocks north of Nome's post office.  (71k)

   

Nome's KNOM may have won every national and Alaskan award. Nonetheless, it's always fun to visit Maurice and Chris at KBHR. Here, my son Steve dropped by Alaska's most famous radio station, however fictional. We always gas up at Cicely on our occasional trips to Sleetmute. (Roslyn, Washington 1993)  (70k)

By the way, if you're a "Northern Exposure" fan, like many Alaskans, you can visit the mythical Cicely, which is about an hour east of Seattle. If you're a "Northern Exposure" fan, you probably already know that because the set for the radio station was so tiny, they often removed the window glass for their shoots.
 

Nome's Memorial Day Swim is sponsored by the Rotary Club. And yes, to receive a certificate, complete immersion is required! Photo by Florence Busch.  1996.  (34k)

Nome's ice was solid on May 31, 1999, so the Memorial Day swim was postponed until June 19th. Following the swim, participants had no problem warming up, thanks to the Rotary Club's bonfire. (58k)

   

Memorial Day 2000 was a cold one, too, with too much shorefast ice, and the swim was postponed until the Midnight Sun Festival on June 18th.  Water temperature: +48 F. (52k)

3,000 ducks hit the water, and the 10th running of the Nome Rotary Club Duck race was underway on a rainy, windy Labor Day.  Rotary launches the ducks into the Snake River near the airport; the first duck to the bridge wins its "owner" $1,000.  September 4, 2000. (131 k)

   

About a hundred fans showed up for the 2000 duck race, despite wind and unusually heavy downpours of rain.  The temperature was 46 degrees F., and the ducks faced a stiff 19 MPH headwind.  September 4, 2000. (64 k)

The winner!  September 4, 2000. (51 k)

   

A young fan watches "also-ran" ducks cross under the bridge.  September 4, 2000. (27k)

20 miles north of Nome, Dorothy Creek invites you to hike up its streambed. August 1997.  (54k)  Hiking instructions

   

Dorothy Creek Falls. On your way in, be careful you don't box in a grizzly.  August 1997.  (57k)  Hiking instructions

The snowy Kigluaik mountains, as seen in the distance from Dexter, about five miles due north of Nome. Mount Osborn, the highest point on the Seward Peninsula, is the triangular mountain to the right of center.  October 1997.   (64k) Tom's Kigluaik Mountain Photo Page

   

Mt. Distin at sunrise, October 7, 2000, from the front steps of our cabin.  2,115 ft., it's located 19 miles due north of Nome.   The mountain is a mile or so beyond the practical end of the Glacier Creek Road, where the narrow dirt road degrades into washouts.(32k). Hiking instructions

Behind Mt. Distin's western flank, from the Kougarok Road's Mile 6, on a clear day you can see, from left, most of a four-mile long escarpment averaging about 2,700 feet high, culminating in peak 3367, followed by peak 3160 and 3213,  some 11 miles to the northwest of Distin along a rugged ridge in the Kigluaik Mountains.   The peaks are at approximately 64 degrees 55' N, 165 degrees, 35' West.  May 28, 2001 (61k).

   

Mount Distin. In mid-June, the tundra had yet to green and ice remained in area ponds.  June 13, 1999.  (77k)  Hiking instructions

On a windy afternoon fifteen miles east of Nome, our friend Lilly Rose takes advantage of the first two-inch-thick ice on a salt inlet to fish for succulent tomcod.  October 1997.  (62k)

   

Another view of the same scene with the Kigluaik Mountains some 25 miles distant.  October 1997. (81k)

The Busch family has "adopted" Mile 913 of the Iditarod National Historic Trail from Seward to Nome. On a thin, lonely sandspit 25 miles east of Nome, the driftwood tripod we erected will guide Iditarod Race mushers and other travelers. In this windswept location, snow rarely drifts more than a few feet, and tripods like this serve as lifesavers, especially during frequent blizzards. The red reflector is mounted high, so that it will be visible in a musher's lamp above swirling snow of a groundstorm.  October 1997.  (74k)

 
 

The last hundred feet of Iditarod trail, musher's perspective.  March 18, 2001.  (167k)

 

The last hundred feet of Iditarod trail, checker's perspective.  March 18, 2001.  (147k)

   

Newly restored 1901 St. Joseph's Church in a February 1998 light snow.  The cross, lighted at night, is the highest point in Nome.  (56k)

Near the church structure stand life-size bronze statues of the "Three Lucky Swedes" who first discovered gold near Nome in 1898.  From left, Jafet Lindeberg (who was actually Norwegian), Eric Lindblom, and with the nuggets in the goldpan, John Brynteson.  June 16, 2000.  (42k)

  

Sitting in Anvil City Square is a locomotive hand-built by Elmer Straub, who came to Nome as a teenager after running away from home and riding the rails as a hobo.  Straub discovered a knack for reparing equipment, and later, electronics.  Among his 1,000 patents is an improved honeybucket, which continues to be used in parts of Alaska.  After World War II, Straub had exclusive rights to haul freight on the Wild Goose Railway line, until the tracks were dismantled in the early 1950s.  June 2006. (99k

Gold rush era flume which carried water of the Miocene ditchline across a low saddle between Trout Creek and Grub Gulch, approx. 15 miles north of Nome.  Three major ditchlines worked their way from the Kigluaik Mountains to the shore at Nome, where their water was used for hydraulic gold mining.  (49k)   Hiking instructions

Fifteen miles east of Nome, late July brings +45 degree evenings and great salmonberry picking. Salmonberries (rubus chamaemorus), relatives of the raspberry, named for the color of the ripe fruit, are cousins of the tall salmonberry shrubs found in southern Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and the Pacific Northwest. Their flavor is unique and hard to describe. For residents of western Alaska who can't afford to buy frozen or fresh vegetables or fruit, berries like these, gathered from the wild, are an important source of nutrition. A family might pick and freeze twenty or thirty gallons of berries a year. Photograph of Leona Mayac by Florence Busch.  July 30, 1999.  (66k)

   

Some years, the berries are scarce, but a good season can provide endless patches of salmonberries like these, along the Nome-Council Road, about fifteen miles east of Nome. "Alaska cotton" to the rear. Photograph by Florence Busch.  July 30, 1999. (79k)

In early September, low bush blueberry leaves turn scarlet.  (91k)

   

The Council City and Solomon River Railroad was constructed beginning June 19, 1903 with big dreams to carry Council City gold to, and freight from, tidewater at Bonanza near Solomon.  By September 2nd of that year, they had laid eight miles of track and began service, and had supplies for forty more.  The company folded in 1907 after completing only about twenty-five miles.   These steam locomotives, which once pulled New York City elevated trains,  are arguably the most photographed scene in the vicinity of Nome, at Mile 31 of the Nome-Council Highway.  July 2001 (182k)    Click here for information on these particular locomotives, compiled by Anne Millbrooke.

A 1970's poster labeled the rusting rolling stock "The Last Train to Nowhere."  This view is from the southernmost locomotive.  The train is best photographed when it is illuminated in bright sun, while dark clouds shroud the background of the Seward Peninsula interior.  This day, unfortunately, was gorgeous.  July 2001.  (98k)

   

Detail of the southernmost engine.  July 2001.  (350k - I couldn't bear to dumb this image down any farther.)

Detail of the undercarriage of the lead engine.  August 2001.  (210k)

   

Two of the couplers.  August 2001.  (123k)

Second locomotive, reverse angle.  Again, I couldn't bear to dumb down this image any further.  August 2001.  (292k)

Old gold dredge just north of Lee's Camp, about Mile 37 Nome-Council Road.  July 2001.  (130k)

   

An old miner's cabin just east of the dredge.  July 2001.  (125k)

There's not much left on the inside.  July 2001.  (100k)

   

Wilfred Anowlic's fish camp at Cape Nome, with ocean-caught chum salmon and white fish hanging to dry.  Wilfred and partner Megs catch them with a net set in the ocean by kayak.  July 2001.   (110k)

A camp at about mile 3 of the Nome-Council Highway, June 2006. (119k)

KNOM Radio's unusual entry in the annual Nome Labor Day Bathtub Race on Front Street, September 3, 2001. (108k)  Photo Copyright 2001 Mark Gillespie

Panoramic view of Nome from the Icy View subdivision.  Visible at right, foreshortened, is the gravel Munz Field air strip for light aircraft.  September 2001.  (232k)

   

Early September fall colors on the tundra at Banner Creek.  (And a new ham radio antenna!) (109k)

Light ice fog grips Nome on a January noon, with the temperature at -28 F.  (57k)

 

Iditarod musher Ramy Brooks moments before he finishes second in the 2002 race, March 12, 2002.   (92k)

Since Nome's Front Street is bare, but the sidewalk hasn't been cleared of ice, Iditarod musher John Baker drives his team along the walkway about 1/3rd mile from the finish line.  Baker finished Iditarod in third place, March 12, 2002.  (200k)

Family pet Velvet the Reindeer, in the back of Carl Emmons' pickup truck in front of the Nome Post Office, March 13, 2002.  (114k)

Doug Swingley's Iditarod dogs moments after crossing the finish line, March 16, 2002.  (117k)

  

Chugie Farley begins the climb up the north shoulder of Newton Peak, having just crossed the Kougarok Road at Dexter during the Nome Cannonball Race April 21, 2002 (151k).

Timmy James maneuvers on the moguly trail near Osborn in the Nome Cannonball Race April 21, 2002 (159k)

One raft plies the Nome River, while a crew behind them drags their craft over gravel shoals in the annual Nome River Raft Race, June 23, 2002.  (199k)

   

June 22, 2002, the air temperature was +42 with a brisk west wind and dark threatening skies as a hundred or so Nomeites jumped into the gray Bering Sea for the Nome Rotary Club Polar Bear Swim.  (96k)

Panoramic image of sunrise over the Nome ocean ice, December 28, 2002.  That morning, water flowed over most of the sea ice's surface and was freezing in the -5 F. temperature.  At lower left is the rock seawall; the other dark objects are ice floes.  (141k)

Panoramic image of the ocean ice at -30º F, with light ice fog.  January 17, 2004. (204k)

A stiff north wind pushes ice off the shore, April 22, 2003.  (136k)

The ice continued to shift and buckle, May 3, 2003.  (151k)

Old gold camp buildings about 200 yards east of the populated area of Nome.  (128k)

An old gold mining power crane just east of Nome.  (162k)

Pioneer Mining Company's gold vault, on West First Avenue. (124k)

Each summer, volunteers maintain flowers at Anvil City Square.  The planter is a dredge bucket, one of the assembly line scoops that carry  gold-bearing gravel into a large gold dredge.  (164k)

To address the high cost of groceries in Nome, about ten percent of Nome's families purchase non-perishable goods in bulk from Seattle, where they are palletized and then shipped on oceangoing barges.   (103k)

Just east of Nome sits the abandoned World War II vintage radio range transmitter shack.  With five 100-foot towers surrounding this central one, the system was an "A-N" beacon.  Coming in from each of four directions, a pilot on course would hear a continuous tone in the receiver.  If the pilot strayed from course, either Morse Code "A" (dih-dah) or "N" (dah-dit) would be heard, depending upon the direction of the error.  The site was decommissioned.  In its final years, the towers served as supports for dipole antennas, used for commercial communication with villages until the advent of satellites in 1974.  The towers remained standing, though a couple at precarious angles, in summer 2003 when this image was taken.  (185k)

The westernmost tower is leaning precariously.  The other four are leaning, too, but toward or away from the camera.  September 2003 (57k)

Winter descends down the slope of  Hill 1618, about eleven miles due north of Nome.  October 21, 2003.  (140k)

Rasmussen's Music Mart, 77 Federal Way.  (137k)

The KNOM Christmas Star, illuminating Nome's holiday sky since 1971.  December 2003.  (168k)

An unusual soft snowfall coats the branches of a couple of Nome's ubiquitous willow bushes.  December 2003.  (97k)

Aerial view of Dredge Number Five, now inactive, floating atop a frozen pond northeast of Nome.  At one time it was the largest operating gold dredge in the world.  (150k

On Mothers Day 2004, stiff easterly winds created an "ivu (EE-voo) event," pushing hundreds of tons of ocean ice onto the Nome port's causeway.  The ice stretched for hundreds of yards.  (161k)

The ivu event, up close.  (160k)

A 180-degree panorama of the ivu, which reached about thirty feet above the level of the causeway. (113k)

View of a foggy Nome behind the ocean, which is choked with grounded piles of broken ice.  Toward the middle of the image, Old St. Joe's is visible; the KNOM studio tower can be seen at right.  (113k)

Chukchi Sea Foods, 2004 (200k)

A pond in the vicinity of Nome melts, third week of May 2004. (147k)

A recreational placer gold miner riffles through beach sand on the outskirts of Nome, June 2004. (130k)

The Nome Nugget parking meter, the instrument of Nome's most infamous practical joke.  Here's the story.  (104k)

The Kuzitrin River bridge north of Nome.  The structure was originally built in 1917 to span the Chena River at Fairbanks' Cushman Street.  When Fairbanks replaced it with a multi-lane span, it was dissembled and moved here.  June 2004.  (188k)

The very end of the Kougarok Road, the Kougarok River bridge; a true brudge to nowhere, as the gravel highway ends a few feet beyond the north end.  A trail proceeds from this point to the mining camp at Taylor.  June 2004.  (178k)

A wild fire in 1999 burned large swatches of the Seward Peninsula.  Here, the plant that has taken over is Alaska Cotton.  Looking east, with the Kougarok River in the foreground.  June 2004.  (218 k)

In early July 2004, smoke from eastern Alaska wild fires spread as far west as Nome.  (171k)

The product of an intense low pressure cell centered in Russia, October 19, 2004 brought Nome's worst flooding since November 12, 1974, extensively damaging oceanside structures, closing Front Street and the Nome-Council Highway.  (144/278/272/235k)

On November 22, 2004, the ocean rose once more, to not quite flood stage.  As it receded, it left chunks of ice on the beach.  The piece at lower left was about  the size of a large watermelon.  (136k)

Panoramic image of Fort Davis from the opposite shore of the Nome River, July 11, 2007.  Fort Davis was established by the U.S. Army in the gold rush to maintain order. (984k)

This old oceangoing vessel behind the Fort Davis Roadhouse, I seem to remember, was named the "Frieda K."  Can anyone help me with that?  July 11, 2007.  (226k)

A small abandoned cabin near the Nome Bypass Road just east of Nome.(175k)

At about mile 1 of the Nome-Council Highway, gold snorkeling off the beach, with Sledge Island in the background.  July 11, 2007 (160k)

At about mile 1.5, the Nome beach, looking west. (261k)

The Glue Pot on July 11, 2007 (138k)

Swanberg's dredge, with the east edge of the townsite visible, on a typical drizzly August day.  August 1, 2007 (106k)

At sunrise, a rainbow appears over the water, as a squall move into Nome, September 6, 2007.  (88k)

During early summer breakup, a boy flies a kite on the Nome beach.  (113k)

Fall tundra colors on the north side of Newton Peak. (250k)

Nome web cam, reverse angle.  (63k)

Sunrise above the ocean ice just after noon in early January.  (165k)

Front Street Nome, about 11 AM, on an early February morning.  (72k)

Nome blizzard conditions on April 3, 2008, looking east from theNugget Inn.  (99k)

Nome Post Office and court building, looking west.  (102k)

Nome Post Office interior.  (93k)

The last power at Banner Creek, the northward extent of Nome Joint Utilities' line up the Kougarok Road.  (114k)

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