This is the view from the outhouse. Much better than the back of a door, huh?
This bull moose served to welcome us to the park. We weren't even to the part of the road you need a pass for yet! He was "rutting" - chasing down some cows. If they moved, he moved. Priorities.
Meet the horde. We never saw this many people again, but whenever there was wildlife near the road, you could bet there were people who had already spotted it.
Burning off a little morning fog...
Doll sheep in a high mountain pass near the road. 
Fog rolled into the lower valleys in the late morning, creating a very mystical atmosphere.
This shot has two animals in it. Well, at least 3, but you can't see the squirrel. This momma bear proceeded to dig for about 15 minutes until she successfully dug a ground squirrel out of its hole! I got to witness the chomping through some binoculars. To the victor goes the spoils. I only wish I could have seen the size of the hole, she practically disappeared into it a few times.
Peaks no numerous as not to be named.
The infamous bridge to nowhere.
There ya go, a little taste of the park road.
Take those turns slowly now.
What state am I in? Sometimes those high tundra hills look a lot like desert.
This is the view from out front of the Chemistry Building. It is actually a place tour buses come to show off the view. The peaks in the distance are the Alaska Range. Denali is way off to the right, and wasn't visible at the time.
My front yard.
A little pond in the Goldstream Valley.
Goldstream Valley Road. I assume this is why they call it the Goldstream Valley. Those hills won't be yellow for long...
Trees in the tundra grow to stunted sizes from lack of sunlight and exposure to sub-zero temps for so long.
This is the Natural Sciences building (it houses Chemistry, Physics, and Geology). I teach my chemistry labs in here and take a class. 
This is IARC: the International Arctic Research Center. This is where my research lab is housed and where I have a desk. That satellite dish is about 3 stories tall. The big ball on the left is the radar for the National Weather Service, who has their office here, as well.
IARC at dusk.
Last weekend I was fully initiated into the Alaskan lifestyle with a packrafting trip in the Alaska Range. It was in the area south of Fairbanks, in between Fairbanks and Anchorage on the Denali Hwy. Packrafting is just that: pack - rafting. We packed in, something like 25 miles, over passes and through valleys, before putting our boats in at the foot of a glacier.
Here's the crew. From left to right: Heather, me, Ben, Ed, and Dea. I work with Dea in the lab, I'll be helping her with her field campaign this winter. They are all friends and were happy to bring me along on my first packraft.
Just like all the trees around here now, the tundra was turning. This made the hills an incredible gold and red. Apparently tundra is normally all green!
The big one was out, showing itself fully in a clear sky. That's Denali.
Those are some of the other headliners in the Alaska range: Hess, Deborah, and Hayes I believe.
There were many alpine glacier lakes, too. Good for dunking in the numbing cold water. I think my average dunk was about 8 seconds.
Caribou were everywhere! We probably saw about 25-30 on the whole trip. They are very curious animals, too, always interested in us. Then they'd snort, throw up their heads, and trot away.
The hills were literally covered with wild blueberries!
The final decent to the river...
This is the kitchen area. I have a fully functioning electric stove with an oven and fan. The sink drains into a bucket, which I forgot to dump this morning... Water is stored in the big orange jug there and used sparingly!
This is my "bedroom". The wall on the right is just a little divider between the main room and this back room, giving the illusion of having a bedroom. Works well! Warm so far.
