October 2nd I went on another hike through the school. We drove up to the top of Ester Dome and hiked down into the village of Ester. The entire time I thought we were going to hike back up after, which would have been awful, there was a section that was about 30 degrees down for half a mile and going down. But had I read a copy of the itinerary, there was another vehicle waiting for us at the bottom so we kind of cheated. Anyways, here's some pictures. This is looking over Fairbanks in the morning. 
Ester Dome was a big gold mining area and still has a few active mines. We came across plenty of holes that people would dig, sift through, then move on. There's also a lot of places people would just dump stuff before there were any roads out there.
Not sure what kind of car this was but it had a straight-6 under the hood
The bus had an old mattress in it, looked like someone made it a home for a while
The saloon we were supposed to stop in for hot chocolate but they didn't open until noon so we left
On the way back there was literally an entire house on the opposite side of the highway going against traffic. Cars were coming onto the on-ramp up ahead then immediately pulling over so I'm not sure what the plan was or who came up with it.
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