There are three seasons while I am here. Snow season, mud season and dust season. We are currently at the end of mud season and mostly into dust season. When I first got here in October, there was quite a bit of snow on the ground and it was pretty cold. It is not slippery because the snow is dry and powdery and gets pretty firm because it is around 10 below. Once the snow begins melting and the temperatures rise, we enter mud season. This is my least favorite season because it tracks everywhere and can be very slippery. Also, at night when the temperatures drop, it freezes into a huge sheet of ice and becomes quite treacherous. As the temps get up into the 20's and 30's and the sun is high up in the sky 24 hours per day, the snow melts away. There is lots of snow to melt so it creates streams flowing down the hills. They dig trenches so the water channels out of town. The dust season is easiest to walk, except for the large rocks in the roads. The dust gets everywhere and makes the town look rather drab. All I have to do is go for a hike or simply look out over the sea ice and see the pristine white snow capped mountains, they are always beautiful.
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| Snow season |
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When the water melts and freezes into a treacherous
ice sheet |
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| Mud season |
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| The snow melts makes neat structures when it refreezes |
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| Melting snow makes streams |
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| Dust season. Very dry volcanic rock |
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| Beautiful mountains |
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| The town at the beginning of the season |
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| The town now. |
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