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2010 Fall season

Location: McHugh creek, 09/06/2010 Leaves are starting to fall down at McHugh Creek.

Although it's a precursor to the long dark winter ahead, Autumn in Alaska is a brief but brilliant explosion of color and crisp air. Post your photos to celebrate the season

2010 Alaska State Fair

Show off your photos from this year's state fair and see how others spent their time.

2010 Anchorage races

When the weather warms in Anchorage, the races begin. Spring - Autumn city races are a tradition in this town, share your photos of participating in them, or of your favorite runner.

RSVP: September

Reader photos from community projects around town in September.

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Ted Stevens and me

Honor former Sen. Ted Stevens, killed in a plane crash on Monday, with a photo you've taken of him at any time during his career.

Post your photos of Ted Stevens

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My favorite planes

From bush planes to C-17s and everything in between, Alaska has its own style and stamp on the aviation industry, Post your photos.

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Downhill

Competitors rode their mountain bikes down a steep and muddy trail through the fall colored foliage during the Arctic Valley Downhill race held on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.

Competitors rode their mountain bikes down a steep and muddy trail through the fall-colored foliage during the Arctic Valley Downhill race Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.

Kayak Packraft Whitewater Festival

A pack rafter makes his way down the Six Miler River as Gunner Cantwell floats behind after flipping his raft during the mass start event. The Six-Mile-Fest whitewater kayak and pack raft festival on Saturday August 21, 2010. The whitewater event featured Kayak and pack raft time trials, mass start races and and a rodeo at the Boston Bar with beer and food and camping at the bar.

The Six-Mile-Fest whitewater kayak and pack raft festival.

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Chugach State Park

Chugach State Park is the third largest state park in America and encompasses a half-million acres. Check out photos of hiking, skiing, moose watching, and sledding.

Black Bear Family

A mother black bear with three cubs visited the Faltz Nursery near the Seward Highway and Huffman on Friday August 13, 2010.

A mother black bear with three cubs visited the Faltz Nursery.

Black Bears

Stuckagain Heights bears.

Madeline Knowlton took pictures of a sow and three cubs as they explored her house Thursday and Saturday. Saturday morning they tried to get in through a door that they'd gotten in two days before. The sow did serious damage to the door before APD officers shot her and two of the cubs.

Capsized on the Six Mile

Nine people start a run on Six Mile Creek Sunday August 1, 2010. A commercial raft run by Chugach Outdoor Center, Inc pulled several people out of the water after the boat capsized.

A raft carrying nine people overturned in Six Mile Creek Sunday. Commercial rafters from Chugach Outdoor Center had boats on the river that helped rescue the swamped boaters.

Rendezvous Peak

Low clouds surround the mountains north of Eagle River valley. On Tuesday evening, July 28, 2010, the rain let up to allow for mostly dry hiking in the Rendezvous Ridge area. Clouds drifted and swirled in that portion of Chugach State Park. The Rendezvous Ridge Loop Trail takes hikers around the slopes of the Arctic Valley Ski Area and to the 4,101-foot Rendezvous Peak.

On Tuesday evening, July 28, the rain let up long enough to allow for mostly dry hiking in the Rendezvous Ridge area. Clouds drifted and swirled in that portion of Chugach State Park. The Rendezvous Ridge Loop Trail takes hikers around the slopes of the Arctic Valley Ski Area and to the 4,101-foot Rendezvous Peak.

Fish Creek

The muddy banks of Fish Creek off Knik-Goose Bay Road were flooded with personal use dipnetters around 9pm on Saturday, July 24, 2010, on the day the fishery was opened for the first time in several years by an ADF&G emergency order to harvest the returning sockeye salmon after a projected escapement goal of 70,000 fish was reached.

The muddy banks of Fish Creek off Knik-Goose Bay Road were flooded with personal use dipnetters on Saturday, July 24, 2010, that were opened for the first time in several years by an ADF&G emergency order to harvest the returning sockeye salmon after a projected escapement goal of 70,000 fish was reached.