By Arctic Annie on 7/10/2009 12:00 AM

Greetings from the Cripple River Gold Camp! The weather here has been unpredictable, hot and sunny, cold and drizzly, damp and sprinkley, then warm again. Then a storm blew in! For a day or so the mosquitoes and the beach miners both were put out. The Bering Sea turned the color of cold hot chocolate and each wave crest was topped with row after row of snorting, rearing, cavorting dazzlingly snow white wave-horses.

Read More »

By Arctic Annie on 7/3/2009 12:00 AM

Summer has come to the Cripple River Gold Camp again! The early crew has been out and about repairing the damages caused by the camp’s long and lonely winter vigil. We humans in the lower forty-eight wait for summer to arrive so we can again return to Nome Alaska. We come from all over and meet here, twelve miles from Nome, where the waters of the Cripple River and the Bering Sea come together to dance in delight and share secret kisses.

Read More »