10/22/09 We flew southwest down the Inlet, over Fire Island, past the Susitna Flats, still mostly August green, Denali far upriver to the north, a heap of white against the blue sky. Derricked gas platforms went under the plane, flames jetting from vent pipes, shadows of cranes leaning over the muddy water, and then we flew into the mountains of the Alaska Peninsula. The season was farther along there ...

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