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It has been a busy past year for me and realized I had not posted some trips from last year so will post a few pictures from my travels. The 2023 spring trip for beach combing down the Alaska Penninsula did not disappoint with glass floats recently washed out by winter storms ready to pickup. There still are glass floats present there that get exposed from past burial by storms, just need to be the next plane by to find and pick them up. The Alaska Geographical Society had another field trip in Denali National Park hosted by Dr. Pat Druckenmiller on dinosaur tracks. I previously posted the trip so will share just one picture. My wife and 3 dogs made a road trip to the end of the Kenia Penninsula to look for plant fossils. I made acquaintances with @Sjfriend getting some tips on where to look, THANKS! We ended up hiking northwest about 2 miles during low tide from Bishop’s Beach, seeing lots of coal and plant fossils eroding out of the beach cliff face. Kilo in the foreground with 11 year old Kobuk back from checking out a Bald Eagle, Cook Inlet by Homer, AK. Kilo tagging along on the first trip fossil hunting. I got three trips into the Talkeetna Mountains hiking last summer. Finding this intact Pseudophyllites indure was worthy of preparation. I took the local rock club president on the second trip as a thank you for cutting a flat surface on the bottom of the P. indure. He was pleased with finding several nice ammonites. Gaudryceras tenduiliratum. One of the few ribbed ammonites present that make it easy to identify. Inoceramus with most large ones in worse shape than this one. As it turns out you don’t have to go far to find fossils around here. Some have shown up in my wife’s flower garden. The third trip was fantastic in that I found another prep worthy ammonite. Not this one, too big for my desk. This beauty, a combo of ammonite and bivalve clams with petrified wood and worm tubes present. Tentative ID Pachydiscus sp. with Inoceramus sp. associated on the ammonite. Difficult for me to get the species as there are subtle differences among the multiple Pachydiscus ammonites in Alaska. Now to the Brooks Range on a sheep hunt which I had previously posted a photo essay on the trip. Coral fossils were abundant, almost everywhere you looked. l Dall sheep left to grow older. Trip into the western Alaska Range with Kilo. Fall colors in the mountains, blink and you will miss it. Lasts only 2 weeks in early September. Kilo with ptarmigan catch of the day. Last trip before freeze up in middle October was shared with one other fishermen evidenced by the tracks. Many of my trips include fishing and hunting with bonus fossil hunting depending on the geology of the areas I’m in. Hope you enjoyed as I have big fingers and have little patience with typing this on my phone where the pictures are and spell check changing the ammo names. Uggh!!! Winter just around the corner.
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Hi -- we have this small fossil. We think it's a fish. But some people who've looked at it see a shell. Now we don't know what we're looking at. Can anyone give us some insight? Thanks
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I made two trips this spring down the Alaska Penninsula and will share some photos from these trips. The first are from the Pacific side taken last week of petrified wood from volcanic ash coverage, fossilization and subsequent exposure. Currently the biggest “trees” there are stunted alders with a tall one reaching 8’ in height. Brown bears use the beaches for travel and while searching for food. Their trails are unique in that they will step in the same spot and leave foot sized depressions as well as compact paths. A partial view of Aniakchak Crater with one of many small cinder cones and Surprise Lake on the way to get fuel on the Bristol Bay side. On the way home stopped to look at a site to view the fossils there. This area is a National Wildlife Refuge so no collecting of fossils is permitted. We were not the only ones walking along the beach. Wolf and brown bear tracks. Red fox neighbor to our first camp. Japanese glass floats are still being washed up on shore or re-exposed after winter storms and present until collected by passing aircraft pilots. Sea lion remains that were likely hauled up from the beach by a brown bear. Sleepy brown bear in the afternoon sun. Also no brown bears were collected on the trip but a good excuse to get out in the field for an another adventure.
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The snow and ice has arrived where I live in Alaska so need something to look forward to for next year. Will share a trip I had in April when the pandemic closed my office so did what was recommended with social distancing about as far as you can go in Alaska. I made arrangements for fuel and loaded up my home built aircraft called a Glastar with a friend and his son to accompany in another aircraft and headed down the Alaska Peninsula on an adventure. About half way down we came across a dead walrus and were able to salvage the tusks which is legal and will make nice cribbage boards some day. Even though the Japanese are not still making and using glass float winter storms kick up old ones that have been buried and we picked up a few for the garden. Camp set up in the brush to help protect from the horrendous winds that can occur along the Alaska Peninsula. I bring a nice camp with a screen tent for cooking and to protect from the bugs which on this trip had not come out yet due to it still being cold at night. Frost in the morning. We had a day of fishing for trout with the nice weather to enjoy without the normal winds. The fly is one of my own creations. Back at camp with real food , moose tacos. With the weather still holding the following day decided to fly all the way to the end of the Alaska Peninsula beach combing and see what we could find from the air hoping for another walrus. It was not to be but we did check out Unga Island which is on the Pacific side by Sand Point where there is 5 miles of beach with petrified wood. This exposure is where the fossil wood is. Active volcanoes in the background. On the return trip back up the peninsula stopped at Aniachak Bay to look at the dinosaur tracks exposed at low tide. After a mile and half walk started to find the trackways and a couple of big tracks in blocks. Hope this picture assay give you something to look forward for when the snow melts. Cheers; Bob
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