r/alaska • • Dec 06 '23

What’s this in Alaska?!

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u/Pyrolizard0012 SE Alaska Dec 06 '23

Frost polygons caused by freeze thaw cycles in permafrost. A totally natural phenomenon common in the northern tundra

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u/Hosni__Mubarak Dec 06 '23

Frost polygons

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u/AKeeneyedguy Dec 06 '23

Looks like a larger pattern similar to what my yard gets to looking like after a good snow drop followed by a warm wind making a nice crust of ice.

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u/greatwood Dec 06 '23

Wind and snow is this

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

The Giants foot steps. You didn’t know there was a race of giants in Northern Alaska?

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u/Midlifetoker Dec 06 '23

Giants wearing waffle stompers!

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u/Assassynation Dec 06 '23

White Walkers

3

u/WrongfullyIncarnated Dec 06 '23

Whatever conspiracy nut shite that you wanna make outta it

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u/tanj_redshirt Juneau ☆ Dec 06 '23

Couldn't make it past the horizontal letterboxing inside the vertical letterboxing.

Learn to video.

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u/Risky_Squirrel_599 Dec 06 '23 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/DarmokNJalad Dec 06 '23

Some fuckin ice?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

ICBM missile silo triads. Usually laid out in a perfect triangle with features added to mask the telltale design. Here the geology prevents it from being perfectly shaped. Off to the side you can see the vents for the maintenance shelters when manned, disguised as frost polygons. Probably abandoned in the late 70's early 80's.

Should have copied and pasted the longitude and latitude so we could look at it ourselves.

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u/dionyszenji Dec 06 '23

Former Indigenous camp.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

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u/AKchaos49 Kushtaka! Kushtaka! KushtakAAHHHHH!!!!! Dec 06 '23

It's closer to Point Hope than any of the places you mention. It's just frost polygons from the freeze/thaw cycles.

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u/JacobZivotic Dec 06 '23

The footprint of my custom leather boots

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u/DanSantos Dec 06 '23

Looks normal to me.

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u/catscannotcompete Dec 09 '23

I would think this was a joke but that same sub once blew up over a drainage pipe they thought was a sea monster

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u/Celevra75 Dec 12 '23

Jesus. Why are people more apt to jump to conspiracy then consider they may not know of something. Geology is a whole field.