the kesugi gang...

 

new job

here's my new boss, Glenn Juday. he's a really well-known climate change ecologist professor at the u. we had this tour this week, that included going in this permafrost tunnel - it was pretty cool....
 

trail run

solstice was a bust for me this year, kinda auspicious to wake up on your birthday with a violent stomach flu. just barely made it to the bbq, but ben got some fun pics - check out their blog this week.
feeling much better now, i got in a great trail run yesterday on pinnell mtn trail. kristen hiked with the dogs, and i ran. great day, the scenery was outrageous as usual. i didn't bring my camera but here's my favorite pic from the last time i did this trail a few years ago. no snow this year!

chitina

i went dipnetting with dea and ben in chitina this weekend, we got skunked, it sucked. no fish to be had. there's some science in predicting when the fish will be running, but mainly i think it's just plain luck. and we had none. the copper river.
you can just barely see ben in a white shirt in this photo, that was our fishing spot.
early on in the day, when dea was still smiling.
and going home with an empty cooler. 

caz had a better weekend than we did. she stayed at the farm with jeff in delta while we went fishing. none of the dogs would play with her so she harrassed the goats ..... 

denali highway

i went camping last weekend on the denali highway with a few friends. we froze, but had lots of fun (fairbanks broke a 113 year record low june day). later in the summer this place can be crawling with hunters but we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. the scenery was just outrageous... looking out the tent, at mt. hayes (?), i think...

we biked one day...
 

more biking photos

amy cresting a hill.... kristen cresting the same hill... guess that's how it feels to mtn bike @ 7.5 months prego!
was definitely spring conditions....

the gang - amy (my neighbor), kristen, and jenny... 

love my nephews...

just trying to blog video, does it work? 

too much sun!!

the weather here has been outrageous - 80's, sunny, no bugs. i've had this great job the last 3 weeks working for a friend of mine at one of the biggest (and only pesticide free) greenhouses in town. it's 8 hrs a day of hard physical labor - everything from making dirt, transplanting trees, delivering huge flower baskets... the best part is that people actually say thank you for your work (something i really missed in grad school). but alas, think i'm starting a new job at the university this week, but still hiring bureacracy to be worked out so stay tuned.
got in a long road ride today - 52 miles from the u to the top of cleary summit and back. i'm trying to train for the sourdough triathlon in july - it's here in fairbanks but a long one, a half-ironman (1 mi swim, 56 mi bike, 13 mi run). so that's what i'm up to... puppy training and julie training... there's no time left for a new job!

kath - check out http://www.timremickphotography.com/galleries/ep1.html for the photo i think you're thinking of. (but he won a big award for this image so it's probably more expensive than others)
mro - what are you doing reading my blog? get on your own - where are pics of sunny vancouver?
dea and stac - i worked on my poptart attack today, best be ready for it next time we ride together... 

chatanika

i canoed ~ 20 miles of the chatanika on saturday with my friend kyle. great to paddle on the high spring water, and see a lot of terrain as it's just starting to green up. lots of new migrants have just arrived. caz's first class II @ 10 weeks old!
 

another bachlorette party @ chs

mette, looking very bridesque... party girl...
we spent more time out of the hot springs than in it. the air temperature was more than 80 degrees warmer than when i was there a month ago for rebecca's party..

laura, carrie, and me. 

hey spence -

guess what i saw in the park yesterday??? a really really big cat - a LYNX - can you believe it?? i also saw a lot of these, do you remember seeing them last summer? is there enough money in your outhouse yet to come visit again this summer? love, juju.

denali

sunrise is @ 5 am up here these days, but discovered there's advantages to getting up pre-sunrise to go birding... Kristen working hard, surveying birds...
still pretty wintery in the park...

weekend in town

my assistant likes to run off with my tools... she's not much help. great weekend in town - running, biking, and building a small garden box. dea and ben's blog has better photos from the weekend - check it out. there's a perfect mother's day photo there for you mom - you can download it yourself and then i'll be on time for a change this year :). heading down to denali for a few days tomorrow just to help Kristen out with her project and get in some good birding... 

morning play time

big bro tecate is staying with us this week while ellie is in wisconsin.

 

a few more...

adrian and caz in her favorite spot.
the gang