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Wainwright Street
As I’m away from the North Slope at the moment, I find myself looking at photos and such. This afternoon, I am looking at pictures of pictures of the village of Wainwright. I have been there a couple times, in the late summers of 2011 and 2012.
Wainwright is located on the coast (of course). It has a population of a little over 500, but the first time I visited the place I could have sworn it was a ghost town. I literally couldn’t see anyone on the streets. I learned later that folks were probably out hunting, and in any event people began to show up on the streets that afternoon.
I always think it’s fun to just zoom out from these little maps one click at a time. If it doesn’t show, then hit refresh.
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You may of course click on a pic to embiggen it.
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- Bush planes, you never know who or what will be in the next seat.
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- Wainwright from above.
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- Wainwright Street
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- Another Street Scne
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- Church
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- Old Boat
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- Driftwood in the rain.
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- I was looking for walruses, worried about bears, and this is what I actually found
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- Another Old Boat
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- Boats eye view
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- Old House
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- A Dew Liine defense station
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- Yep, that was my ride home.
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- Apparently, the school is a rug free zone.
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- Patriotic Dumpster
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- Edited Sign
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- Serpentine Dumpster
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- Dumpster Gotsa Tude!
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- Coast
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- Looking the other way up the coast.
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- Tundra from the flight in.
…and of course the flight out (not the best video, but it’s kinda neat to see the tundra from above).
northierthanthou 
Looks like a nice visit..I always wanted to go to Alaska..so much space and clean air :~)
It’s a nice place to visit. You see pretty much everything in less than a day, then it’s just a question of getting into the pace of the community.
Thanks for the pictures and video. We are hoping to visit Alaska post transplant. It’s definitely on the list! Thanks again. We like when you do these kinds of posts. Hope all is well. Cheryl
Thank you Cheryl. I hope all is well for you and that you get to do that visit.
Nice article, Dan! Really so interesting! At my mediterranean latitude Wainwright looks like the extreme border of the earth…
Heh, …I think that’s cause it is at that extreme border. Mediterranean sounds good to me these days.
Love the dumpster art!
It does seem to be a North Slope specialty.
Almost made it to Alaska, but Montana stole my heart before I could get there 🙂 Thank you for sharing.
Lucky Montana. 😉
That prairie dog looks very intimidating.
He was quite annoyed with me.
Thanks for the ‘like’.
Your blog is fascinating. Never been to Alaska although travelled around Canada a lot some years ago.
Such a contrast of scenery to the wooded hills of our secret valley!
I expect you probably have the same contrasts. Alaska has so many different types of nature.
Hello Dan, I also live in Alaska. I love your website’s name, very creative! You are indeed Northier Than Thou …. or at least me, as I reside in Southcentral Alaska 🙂 Though I can say I was born and raised here 😉 I wanted to thank you for following my blog, I really appreciate it! I hope you find many recipes to help keep you happy and healthy. Cheers!
Hi Katie,
I like your blog. Glad you came buy and said hi.
OK, I have always wanted to visit Alaska, it is on my bucket list (which is getting longer by the day) but this may be a little too far North! I will have to be satisfied with reading your blog.
Heh, …most people want to see the Alaska a ways south of here. Makes sense to me; that part is beautiful too.
Great shots, really offers a feel for the place.
Thank you, Maria.
Great to see your work and discover a little known part of Alaska. I can relate to looking out for bears as I spent several days recently hiking alone. A walrus sighting would have been way cool.
I always just miss the cool critters.
Great tour of the village!
Thank you.
Looks like the cutest place! Nice ride home, btw.
Thank you. It was a cool ride.
It’s been a dream of mine to go to Alaska for years, it’s nice to see some of the real parts.
Hope you get to follow-up on that dream.
The village of Wainwright seems to be such an amazing place, so quiet and peaceful. Hope to make it there one day! Great gallery!
We have a few small villages on the North Slope. Hope you make it up some day.
Thx so much for the comprehensive visit to Wainwright, it is indicative of much of Alaska…a truly unique place on earth.
It’s the North Slope, …all tundra. South of that, they actually have trees. …Trees!
This made me homesick for Alaska. I lived there back in the early 90’s. I think it’s the most beautiful place on earth. These pictures of Wainwright remind me of some of the small fishing villages we’d see when we ventured out away from Juneau. I need to go back.
Hope you make it back. I haven’t been to Juneau myself; hope to make it soon.
I love the painted dumpsters! I really want to make it to the north slope – at least I made it above the arctic circle the last time I was in Alaska, so I’m edging gradually closer.
Into the arctic circle is pretty close. Maybe next time. 😉
I’m from Chicago. Just looking at the sparseness of everything on your pictures makes me want to hug a skyscraper.
Heh, …I still remember the wind blowing between those damned buildings. …Your cold is colder than our cold. …but at least you have good restaurants.
I’ve been there many years ago, but why are you there? Even Barrow looks up-town in comparison. Enjoy!.
We visit the villages to make contact with the community. Hard to specify tangible benefits, but its part of area my college serves. Have to keep in touch with the different communities.
Hi Daniel. You have a fascinating blog. You give a good feel for the village of Wainright. Thanks for following my blog.