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We took a bit of a rest for lunch. Aubrey has her zebra-stripe bandana with a different knot everyday....

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This stuff grows in clumps. There was a lot in another survey we did in Tok. The thing about this stuff is...

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The underside of the fungus shows how smooth it is, along with having a nice yellow color. There aren't the noticable gills here.

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Here's the side view of the mushroom growing out of the birch tree. I wonder if this fungus is specific to this tree.

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This is one of the nicest specimen of shelf fungus that I've ever seen. Now if only I could figure out whether or not it's poisonous.

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These small mushrooms blanket the forest floor but I don't know what they are. Maybe I'll put more effort into figuring it out later.

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We didn't land here but this was an intriguing spot. This section of land seems to be everything but an...

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It's raining out in the distance. The weather was actually questionable in Fairbanks but we outran it coming to the northern reach of the Minto Flats.

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We're cresting the last ridge before getting to the flats. It looks like there's a trail on top of the ridge that meanders along it.

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There's something that saved a few patches of trees. I wonder how much affect the wind has up on the top of a hill this large.

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This is an extensive burn. There are streaks of lighter brown which may signify the evergreens versus the...

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The top of this hill got extremely scorched. It seems to have streamed down among the trees some on the...

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We're dropping down into the flats soon, but first there's this oddly large bend in the river. It looks...

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What's cool about the valleys in this area is that you can tell where the water flows. The congregation of...

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I've flown over this area before when fires were actively burning. It looks like this one was limited and...

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Instead of following the train tracks south of the range and around and up to Minto Lakes, we just went...

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Our headsets are on and we're ready to take off. Aubrey's missing her orange vest. It might be too early to care.

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Aubrey's caught in the middle of a crossfire between Sarah and I. I think Sarah got the better shot. I just saw Aubrey's camera sneak in there too.

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