Alaska: it's not all the same

On the theme of the amazing difference between hills and valleys in Interior Alaska, here is a blast from the past. This composite photo is from September 2009. The bottom photo when I left home to go to work. The top photo when I got to UAF 30 minutes later. It isn't just that it was snow in the hills and rain in the valley. In fact, there had been very little precipitation at valley level.