Today is the 19th of October and the second snow of the season is drifting down. It’s been about three weeks since we said goodbye to the family of Sandhill Cranes that have for years nested just across our runway from our hangar. We won’t see them again until sometime in May, next spring. In Alaska, as with all extreme northern latitude locations, summer is a very short, intense period of time in which we northern tribes celebrate the long, sunny days with a myriad of outdoor activities, such as camping, hiking, floating the beautiful rivers, all the while knowing that winter is coming with its own set of limitations of extreme…
