19 July 2010

Fairbanks, Gold Panning, & the Pipeline


















You know you're way up north when you have to go south to reach the North Pole.







The view outside our hotel room: the Chena River. (click to greatly embiggenate)


















Panning for gold at the El Dorado Mine, north of Fairbanks. They remove about $3 million/day. We didn't get quite that much.














Trans-Alaska Pipeline System - visitors' center north of Fairbanks

2 comments:

threecollie said...

My folks love to pan for gold.

Rev. Paul said...

threecollie, doing it even once can make you understand why it's so addictive to many.