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Field acquisitions for the Wales-to-Bethel project ended for the year yesterday with my return to Fairbanks, after spending 40 days in the field, flying 14,262 miles, taking 128,502 photos, [...]

After 4 days of bad weather, today I mapped Chefornik, completing our goal of mapping all of the villages between Wales and Bethel on the west coast of Alaska. After two very productive days [...]

North met South when I mapped the Golden Pixel on Monday, creating a continuous mile-wide swath of imagery from Wales to Cheevak, in a 24-hour mapping marathon taking advantage of a 36 hour [...]

Today I flew from Nome to St Mary’s, doing some final cleanup en route before getting chased off the coast just as I thought I was going to map the Yukon River delta. I fueled last night so [...]

Despite forecasts to the contrary, I woke up this morning to find that clear skies were over Teller and Wales so I headed out there at first light and finished all work north and west of Nome. It [...]

Today we passed through the crux of the project by mapping Wales, thus completing the coastline for the entire northern half of the project. After spending two and a half days watching the storm [...]

With the storm still raging, I had some time to process the Nome acquisitions from two days ago. Here’s a top view of the new map.  Mouse-over to see the topography created by the same [...]

Taking advantage of a tight weather window, I flew 16 out of 28 hours, covering 1500 miles while taking 15,000 photos of lots of coast and four more villages, and ended up in Nome. My original [...]

[Note: This post was originally published August 21st, but mistakenly not with the Fodar News tag]   Ever since I saw Toksook Bay on the map I’ve been thinking of 1980s B-grade horror [...]

[Note: this post was originally published August 20th, but mistakenly not with the Fodar News tag] Tuntutuliak and Kipnuk are now in the can. Or would be if I were shooting film. So I guess [...]