My rather elderly Guide for new users of GPS and those wanting an
understanding (basic) of UTM is still available at:
www.dbartlett.com

Are there any tour companies or airlines in Anchorage that offer tours
of The Gates of the Arctic National Park? My wife and I will be in
Anchorage next July.

Suggestions?

Thanks, Brian

Jim,
We found a great way to ski the park and get away from the snow machines
was to stay in the park at Old Faithful Snow Lodge. You can catch a
snow coach in, and then you can ski around to the geyser basins, to
Mystic Falls, Kepler Cascades and Lone Star geyser. You can also catch
a snow coach to the trail head for Fairy Falls (and then ski back to the
lodge along a power line if you want to avoid the road) and you can
catch a snow coach over to the Canyon area if you'd like to ski that
area. You can do the same basic thing by staying in Gardiner or Mammoth
(which has some advantage since you can drive there, but the ski
conditions are generally better in the Old Faithful area), but its a
long way from the north entrance to Old Faithful in a snow coach. It is
also a long way...

James wrote:

Yes if you mean Yellowstone as in National Park.

The road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful is groomed (for
snowmobiles and the snow coaches) and is skatable although motorized
traffic beats up the trail. If you ski from Old Faithful to West
Yellowstone the 50K will be generally downhill but a lot of flat. (You
can ride a snow coach to Old Faithful).

Whoever does the road grooming also sets some classic track near Old
Faithful, but again, the snow machines tend to run over ski tracks.
Most of the trails around Old Faithful are classic skier set track.

The geology of the geyser basin (as in Old Faithful) results in wamer
ground conditions that West Yellowstone and the snow transforms faster
than outside the basin.

The park website has sketch maps of the ski trails.

Here's some advice for a semi-professional photographer: you're images
are WAY oversharpened.

On 5 Jan 2007 07:48:24 -0800, "bn-images" bn-images.com> wrote:

Okay. I only looked at the images on the home page. I did not go to
the gallery. So my comments deal with them only.

1. Excellent values in both prints. Also, excellent range of values
with good detail in both lights and darks.

2. The sail boat composition is rather odd, with the boat dead center
and the horizon exactly dividing the image. But this seems to be what
you intended, so this is just a comment.

3. I like the palace image somewhat better. This is a fresh look at
what is usually a pedestrian subject. I think it is the Doge's Palace
(no extra "d") but I could be wrong.

4. Be more forthright. If you want to sell stuff, say, "I am selling
images on my web site of ..... "

Elliot Richmond
Itinerant astronomy teacher

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:44:01 -0800, Mike Vandeman
pacbell.net> wrote:

Has a lot of outdoors info and hikes in Colorado.

http://home.earthlink.net/~colorado_hiking/

Everglades and Virgin Islands National Park. We live in FL. What are
some nice parks you can visit that are cool-warm (not too cold) and
where we don't have to deal with the problem of snow covering up the
trails and roads?

Thanks,
Prasanna Padmanabhan