2007年07月17日

Good Morning, Sapporo


From Silver Lodge.
  

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2007年05月02日

I found Paul Claus!

See "Winging it" in the site below.
http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wallpaper.tmpl?issue_id=20030301
It was linked on Featured Content layer at google earth.

I found the airplane that I used to see.


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personal comunication:
Dan,congratulations for your success and safe return!
http://www.barrenlands.org/MainPage.html  

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2007年03月01日

Hinamatsuri

March third is Hinamatsuri, traditional girl's day in Japan.
For that, we display Hina-dolls in our house.



These small dolls are my favorite.
#but not mine. Hina-dolls are belong to girls.

About Hinamatsuri,
See wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri  

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2007年03月01日

Kanreki party

Head of our group become 60 years old very soon.
So we celebrated his 60 year anniversary, Kanreki.
It has special meaning in Japan.
#See wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle


#The cake was made by Kinotoya.
http://www.kinotoya.com/
The president of Kinotoya graduated same ski climbing club with me.
They produce excellent cakes!
The ski climbing club, HUSV
http://www.husv.net/


To wear red cloths is tradition at Kanreki party.  

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2007年03月01日

Arctic traverses

Two of my friends are going to traverse Arctic respectively.

One is Avangnaq arctic Expedition by Tetsuhide Yamasaki.
http://avangnaq.sakura.ne.jp/
He is going to traverse along north coast of North America
from Greenland to Alaska by a dog sled.
He lost his dog sled team by a blizzard.
The team on sea ice was quickly drifted.
But he didn' give up.
Now, he train a new team for the traverse at Siorapaluk, Greenland
#Here is the route map of his expedition.
http://avangnaq.sakura.ne.jp/route/index.html

The other is Snow Star 2007 Barrenlands traverse.
http://www.barrenlands.org/MainPage.html
A friend of mine, Dan Solie join the expedition.
They leave from Fairbanks Alaska on March 15, 2007.


One more!
Kenji Yoshikawa, the most powerful field scientist I know is going to travel
along Yukon river villages using snow machine for monitoring permafrost and outreach.
#Blog
http://uafpermafrost.blogspot.com/
#Website
http://denali.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~saito/ts_iarc/permafrost.html
  

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