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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.

Itzurun Beach Interpretation Sign There was 1/2 mile of these exposed sedimentary layers along this beach with the K-T boundary pointed out along the cliff trail. Fossil gastropods at Arnica Beach in the soils above the sedimentary deposits. Echanoid Coral? Arrived at high tide. Beach the following morning at Low tide so could explore. Just amazing land forms sculpted by the sea!!! Playa da Pendueles Jurassic Museum of Asturias From the museum interpretation signs I got the locations of some of the local dinosaur track sites. My wife was nice to entertain me for two of these track sites. As always thanks to others for sharing their paleo adventures.

PBS aired Nova season 48 episode 21: Alaskan Dinosaurs on 1-26-2022. Worth a look to get the latest finds and thinking with arctic dinosaurs. Dr. Druckenmiller of the University of Alaska, Museum of the North has been making interesting discoveries and insights into Alaska's cretaceous dinosaurs.

Hi, I was wondering if the tracks are authentic?@jpc @Troodon

http://theconversation.edu.au/damage-to-dinosaur-tracks-inevitable-if-gas-plant-goes-in-8285 This is not good news from down under. Why do they have to put a gas plant in that location? There may be more dino tracks at the proposed location for the gas plant and they will be destroyed.