Closeup of one of the towers.

The Polaris Hotel in Nome.  Their slogan:  “Don’t believe everything you hear.”

Amato outside the Anchor Tavern.  The temperature this day was nearly 80 degrees in Nome.

 The finish line of the Iditarod race.  This is a new structure, as the old one fell apart a few years ago.

 Amato and a Nome kid under the old Iditarod arch in 1991.

Aerial view of the central Kigluaik Mountains, looking north up Grand Central Valley.  Mount Osborne (4,714 ft) is the highest peak in the range and the high point of Seward Peninsula.  This was taken on the flight from Nome to Kotzebue on June 14.