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{ Monthly Archives } October 2007

‘Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts’

New York Times article:
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
Arctic Study A Coast Guard work party in August deploying a buoy that helps scientists track the age of sea ice.
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2007: My First Snow of the Year

On my drive over Carson Pass this weekend I encountered my first snow of the season - it was only an inch deep but it was snow!
>First Snow - Highway 88 Looking North. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
(I’m also experimenting with new border designs for uploaded photographs…)