Snow, rain, ice

We had some good snow and I was all excited thinking that it would be ready for winter sports. Then it rained and washed away snow - yuk. Today, we are sitting right at 32 or 33 degrees and all the water is icing up. We had to keep all of our students inside today and off of the slippery ice. I just want snow. We have snow at the ski resort at the upper parts but the lower has snow but it is not good snow. Frustrating.

These are the last pictures before real snow

Everything is white now. We have a winter wonderland. Goodbye ice and brown.

More ice and we have REAL SNOW!

These are pictures of the ice from the previous weekend. The stream is just ice.

In the past 16 hours of so, we have gotten about 8 inches of snow. It is real snow and the trees look like a Christmas scene.

Ice

Ice pictures from my hike this past Sunday.

Juneau - sun

The tree has hundreds of little birds in it.

Juneau on a sunny day

We had rare sunshine in November. Here are some pictures without clouds and RAIN. Quite nice. It did rain later in the afternoon.

The ridge above Mendenhall Glacier

Silver Back Brown Bear in Hoonah, AK (Grizzly Bear)

I downloaded some pictures onto the computer and found this video of the Grizzly at Hoonah. I forgot all about it.
WARMING - IT COULD MAKE YOU DIZZY! i was riding in an ATV on a bumpy road. We were trying to catch up to the bear to get a look. This bear is estimated to weight 450 pounds.
The fellow I was with had bear spray but he said he did not feel it works very well. When we got out of the ATV, he forgot the bear spray anyway. This is my encounter with a Grizzly Bear in AK. It is only like 17 seconds long.

Eagle Pictures

I got within about 8 to 10 feet of this Eagle

I was hiking around Mendenhall Glacier and I saw this eagle eating a salmon. I got closer and closer. It was interesting.
The fish is what he was eating. He flew off, I walked by his fish and then he returned to eat more. Nice day to be out and about.

Treadwell Mine 2

More Treadwell Mine ruins shots. This mine was operational until about 1910. It had a big cave in which ended operations.