Winter in Anchorage Alaska

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Photo by Bill Jager. Russian Orthodox Church graveyard.
Russian Orthodox graveyard at Eklutna, Alaska. The Russian Athabascan Natives believed in building miniature houses over the graves of their dead, with a miniature Russian Orthodox Church at the graveyard. The restoration of this religious Russian Orthodox artifact was paid for by your tax dollars. Tax funds are still used to maintain this Russian Orthodox graveyard.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Russian Religious icon gets US tax support.
The Russian Orthodox Church neglected its own Church graveyard and the U.S. government restored this graveyard with tax dollars. This is government support of the Church. Is the Russian Orthodox religion just another bad religion? Benjamin Franklin once said, "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." Anson Phelps Stokes, Church and State in the United States, Harper, 1950, Vol. 1, p, 298.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Russian Alaska.
Another reminder that the Russian Empire once ruled in Alaska. Miniature houses built over Russian Orthodox Church graves, restored by U.S. tax dollars. One would think that the Russian Orthodox Church would be proud to preserve its own history and fund the restoration of its own graveyards. This is the Russian culture that is being preserved. The tiny houses over the graves are modeled after Russians houses and not Athabascan.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Spectacular Anchorage sunset.
With the sun rising late in the morning and setting mid-afternoon sets conditions for spectacular sunsets in December at Anchorage, Alaska

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2005 Photo by Bill Jager. Climbing up frozen waterfall.
Traveling south from Anchorage along Turnagain Arm in route to Portage Glacier, I just had to stop and take this picture of a ice climber climbing a frozen waterfall.

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2005 Photo by Bill Jager. Ice Climbing.
More ice climbing

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2005 Photo by Bill Jager. Ice Climbing
Alaska's winter sport.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Point Woronzof - Anchorage.
A view of Point Woronzof from Anchorage on a cold winter day in December.

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Photo image by Bill Jager. Mount Susitna.
Mount Susitna seen from Point Woronzof and across Cook Inlet from the City of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Frost.
No, that is not snow. The temperature is -22F with a wind chill of -44F, that is hoarfrost (white frost) on the trees. This picture was taken in December, between Wasilla and Palmer -- north of Anchorage.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Frosty trees.
This Georgia girl just had to get out of a warm car to experience the -44F wind chill weather. She is experiencing the Alaska winter beauty of frosted trees, by just being part of it.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Dall Sheep.
This photo of Dall sheep was taken just South of Beluga Point.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Dall Sheep.
Close up of Dall Sheep just South of Beluga Point.

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Photo by Bill Jager. Bill Jager.
Bull Moose foraging in the snow along the Tony Knowles Coastal trail.

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1995 Photo by Marie Jones. Trophy Moose at Mat-Su Resort.
Bill and Sue Jager take a close up look at a trophy moose on display at the Mat-Su Resort. For Information on the Mat Su Resort, click here: Mat Su Resort

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Anchorage, Alaska in December images