PHOTO OF THE DAY February 15, 2006  

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Where Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
When 1987
Photographer George F. Mobley

"Hikers tarry in a patch of cotton grass in glacier-carved Okpilak valley. Snow on the ridge recalls a long dark winter past."

—From the National Geographic book America’s Hidden Wilderness: Lands of Seclusion, 1988


Photo gallery: Alaska's Kodiak Island
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