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Landscape Photography: Alaska

1. Matanuska Valley and Vicinity

	Chugach Mountain Range Looking at the Chugach Range from a position in the Talkeetnas, northeasterly across Seventeen Mile Lake. Between the ridge of trees in the foreground and the distant mountains, runs the mighty Matanuska River, blocked from view by forest and hills.
	Upper Cook Inlet In upper Cook Inlet, the sea slices into the land in two arms, which makes a small peninsula or headland between them. Anchorage, Alaska's largest city sprawls across that headland. The northerly arm of Cook Inlet is fed by the Matanuska and Knik Glaciers, via their respective rivers of the same names. This arm is known as Knik Arm. Knik is pronounced kuh-nik, emphasis on the last syllable.
	Winter Afternoon on Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet Turnagain Arm, the other, easterly arm of Cook Inlet, is fed by Portage glacier and it's stream, Portage Creek.
	Pioneer Peak At 6,398 feet above the valley floor, Pioneer Peak dominates the Matanuska Valley in southcentral Alaska.
	Granite Peak In the Talkeetna Mountain Range, 5 miles south of Sutton. Granite Peak overlooks Wishbone Ridge, which is that long low solid looking basalt mass in center left, just above the treeline. The 'real' Gypsy Hollow is nestled at the base of Wishbone.
	The Mighty Matanuska River carves it's way through granite mountains of several ranges in its journey from the Matanuska Glacier to Cook Inlet. The Chugach Range is shown in this photo with Red Mountain in the background Completely wild, this glacial stream provides subsistence fishing and exciting rafting.

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Talkeetna River Valley and Vicinity

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