Click on tiny images to see full size scans. Sled dogs in blue mittens wait for the judges inspection prior to the 1996 Yukon Quest Race A local beauty queen and racer dressed in Athabaskan gear waits to have her photo taken by her sponsoring newspaper.
Sled dogs waiting at the starting line have to be physically restrained from running.
The dogs love racing so much they appear to be going mad from excitement in the minutes before the handlers let them go. Summer and early Fall is mushroom hunting season in Alaska. Here Milla Kalen picks tiny yellow earth tongues as spice for pasta sauce. To her rear, dressed in her orange hunting scarf, is Shoelace the Costume Shop cat. Some ice sculptures from the Fairbanks Winter Carnival, 1998.