ANWR Panoramas -- First rough drafts

On a trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in July and August of 2007, I took 376 panoramic photographs. Here are the first few that I've processed, focusing on my hiking companions and trying to get a cross section of imagery types. Most of the remaining panoramas do not have people in them. These should be considered rough drafts, just to get a sense of the landscape. There are numerous corrections I have not made to them, such as for TCA and sensor dust, as well as some exposure settings. These panoramas were all shot with a Nikon D2xs with Nikkor 10.5mm lens, stitched with PTgui, and encoded to Flash using Pano2VR. If you want to learn more about the trip itself, click here.

Click on the image to see a medium resolution panorama (about 800 kB). When a higher resolution version is available, click on the link below the image (about 8 MB). The panorama should open up in your browser window. Use the mouse or the arrow keys to tilt up/down and left/right, and the shift and ctrl keys to zoom in/out. Use your browser's back button to return to this page. These panoramas require Flash, version 8 or higher, which most computers have installed already; if you don't have Flash, you can install it free here. If your computer suffers in performance, make your browser window smaller. Use your browswer's Back button to return to this page and view other panoramas.

NOTE: If you click on these images, you will launch a viewer that allows you to spin them in any direction. It is a much different experience than simply looking at these flat previews!

24 July 2007. Camping on the coastal plain about 25 miles from the coast. It's pretty flat here. Click on the picture, then use the shift and ctrl keys to zoom in and see what's for dinner. Click here to see it in full resolution.

26 July 2007. Bitty bluff, named after the USGS monument "Bitty" located on top of it. This is the first real 'foothill'.

27 July 2007. Old Jago moraines, formed by ice more than 100,000 years ago. Not really foothills, but that's what we call them anyway.

27 July 2007. Jago Lake on a beautiful night. The lake sits in moraines that were probably from the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, just down from the mountains which can be seen in the distance.

28 July 2007, 13:11.

28 July 2007, 13:27.

28 July 2007, 13:35.

28 July 2007, 14:18. Ken's gully near Jago Lake. Ken has a photo from this spot in 1957 showing that there were no willows at all here.

28 July 2007 14:23.

28 July 2007, 14:27.

28 July 2007 14:30.

28 July 2007 14:39.

28 July 2007 14:44.

28 July 2007 16:52.

Link to HDView Jago Lake quadrat

29 July 2007, 10:35.

29 July 2007 10:42.

29 July 2007 10:48.

29 July 2007 10:52.

29 July 2007 10:55.

29 July 30 11:16.

29 July 2007 2007 13:36.

Link to HDView high resolution ptarmigan browse

29 July 2007 15:40.

30 July 2007. Breakfast on a recent (<10,000 year old) moraine of McCall Glacier, overlooking the Jago River in the background. Full resolution.

30 July 2007 12:43.

30 July 2007 13:33.

30 July 2007 15:05.

30 July 2007 15:11.

30 July 2007 16:31. Jaeger Pass. A short cut from the north is to bypass the mouth of McCall Creek and come over this pass. We took the long way because there's less vertical change to deal with. McCall Glacier is obscured by clouds on the right. Full resolution.

30 July 2007 17:54.

30 July 2007 19:49.

31 July 2007 09:52. Vegetation quadrat at Jaeger Pass.

31 July 2007 12:15.

31 July 2007 12:28. Alluvial fans in McCall Creek valley. Here two alluvial fans from opposite sides of the valley oppose each other. Full resolution.

31 July 2007 13:15. Hi res.

31 July 2007 15:52. Taking a break from walking on slippery, treacherous rocks above the natural wier. Full resolution.

31 July 2007 15:41.

01 August 2007 10:12.

01 August 2007 12:31.

01 August 2007 15:11. Taking a break at the weather station on McCall Glacier, on the last part of our hike. Full resolution.

01 August 2007 15:39.

01 August 2007 17:14. Waiting for the others to catch up, on the last hill before base camp. Full resolution.

03 August 2007. Our base camp at McCall Glacier on a nice day. Full resolution.

04 August 2007. Our base camp at McCall Glacier, on a nice evening. Full resolution.

05 August 2007 08:58.

Link to HDView Okpilak Glacier panorama

05 August 2007 14:24. First GPS measurements of the trip on McCall Glacier. Full resolution.

05 August 2007 15:00.

05 August 2007 16:37.

06 August 2007 08:09. Our base camp at McCall Glacier, on a snowy morning.

07 August 2007 16:02.

08 August 2007 10:11.

08 August 2007 10:28.

08 August 07 15:56. The tippity-top of Mt Suki, using the Seitz motor drive.

09 August 2007 14:35.

11 August 2007 13:34.

11 August 07 14:04. Water rushing through a medial supraglacial stream.

16 August 2007 10:34.

16 August 2007 12:42.

17 August 2007. The effect of ptarmigan browsing on willows. Many willows here show a bimodal branching pattern, the low height caused by ptarmigan browsing while standing on the snow and the higher branches and leaves having escaped somehow. Full resolution.