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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 11/08/2026

The video team at KTOO has spent literally 363 days preparing for this broadcast. We have 9 of KTOO cameras across 5 remote sites, + access to many more sources of images & data to cover this event live with the KTOO news team; alongside many local journalists across Juneau. Support local media.

A split-screen view of 9 remote cameras monitoring the Mendenhall River.

A robotic camera watches the Mendenhall River downstream of the Brotherhood Bridge in Juneau, Alaska.

A robotic camera on a tripod by the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 25/04/2026

My home Internet connection on Snowcloud (65/20) beats GCI cellular data (27/19) at home. Juneau. VPN off. (This is a really interesting thread @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, I hope you publish all your raw data, not just what you get from us here on BlueSky.)

A screenshot of a speed test result on Snowcloud home internet in Juneau, Alaska.
65.3 Mbps download / 19.9 Mbps upload

A screenshot of a speed test result on GCI cellular data in Juneau, Alaska.
26.8 Mbps download / 19.0 Mbps upload

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 20/04/2026

Bonus video of spring bears on the snow. (Recorded handheld through binoculars & heavily stabilized.)

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 20/04/2026

Went for a walk up Basin Road above #Juneau #Alaska today to watch spring avalanches. Also spotted some bears playing & relaxing on the snow, waiting for spring greens to start growing. (Turns out my phone can take semi-decent photos through binoculars.)

Slopes of Mt. Juneau above the Gold Creek flume. Piles of snow from avalanches snake out from deep gullies between the trees out onto the brown pre-spring slopes above the river below.

2 bears on a snow pile in the distance, photographed through binoculars causing a black ring around the photo.

2 bears walk across a snow pile, photographed through binoculars.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 14/04/2026

Alaska / Hawaiian Airlines is rolling out MFA in their app, which regularly logs you out requiring re-authentication. At least they are using an offline MFA system that works when traveling off your cell network or are in airplane mode; & not depending on the ability to receive texts, right? Oh.

A multifactor authentication setup screen on an airline's app that won't work internationally or in airplane mode.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 13/04/2026

#akwx #Juneau #Alaska Last day of the ski season and it's still dumping snow at Eaglecrest. There is still loads snow here for weeks longer, but the plan is to close today, so they are done. Human calendars are dumb.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 05/04/2026

If you aren't at Eaglecrest today, you are missing out! Great snow, good weather, and no lift lines!

The lower mountain of Eaglecrest ski area with the Hooter chair.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 24/03/2026

Beautiful morning in #Juneau, #Alaska. But very windy on the mountain tops. #akwx

Snowy mountains on Douglas Island in the morning sun.

Wind blows snow, backlit by the rising sun, from the top of Mt. Roberts.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 19/02/2026

The Guardian wins the headline, but that image in the NPR story is 🤌🏻 www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f... www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

A screenshot of a Guardian story with the headline "Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics". There is a photograph of the dog above the headline.

A screenshot of a NPR online news story with the headline "Surprise 4-legged Olympic competitor wows cross-country fans". The image is a slightly distorted image of the dog taken by a finish-line camera system, with the caption "Nazgul, a two-year-old Czechoslovakian wolfdog that wandered onto the cross-country race course in Tesero, Italy during Olympic competition Feb. 18, in an image captured by the official finish line camera for the event. Courtesy of Omega"

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 10/01/2026

An important process to keep us safe.

A worker sprays a de-icing solution on an aircraft wing on an overcast day.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 09/01/2026

Today's WEA was geo-targeted at downtown Juneau. warn.pbs.org

A screenshot from warn.pbs.org showing an Avalanche Alert for downtown Juneau Alaska.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 31/12/2025

... Compared with the Wireless Emergency Alerts, which make a sound even if your phone is in DND if you have it enabled [see screenshot]. WEA is functionally like a city-wide "fire alarm", designed to get everyone's attention when lives are at stake. So the CBJ uses that one very very sparingly.)

A screenshot of the first half of the Wireless Emergency Alerts settings menu on an Android phone.

A screenshot of the second half of the Wireless Emergency Alerts settings menu on an Android phone.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 30/12/2025

A snowmuncher 2000 ... and 9000. (Aka a medium and large berm-be-gone.) Thank you to CBJ road crews for working so hard! ❤️ #AlaskaProblems #AkWx #Juneau

A sidewalk sized snowblower vehicle clearing snow on a street in front of a house.

A sidewalk sized snowblower vehicle clearing snow on a street.

A road sized snowblower vehicle navigates a narrow snowy street between parked vehicles and snow laden trees.

The front rotary blade of a road sized snowblower vehicle navigating a narrow snowy street past a parked car.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 30/12/2025

+ 22 inches would get us really close.

Screenshot of a winter storm warning for Juneau, Alaska:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Juneau AK
548 PM AKST Mon Dec 29 2025

... SNOW CONTINUES FOR THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE INTO MID WEEK...

.Snowfall and periods of freezing rain continue for much of the northern half of the panhandle from Juneau and Icy Strait corridor area northward. The rain/snow line has moved southward today sitting just south of Tenakee Springs and Elfin Cove Monday evening. Snow totals have so far been around 15 to 47 inches across the northern panhandle. A low in the gulf is continuing to send surges of moisture into the panhandle with another surge expected to arrive for the northern inner channels late Monday night, bringing more renewed snowfall rates with it. Following this will be a slight decrease in snow rates Tuesday before a second wave of moisture is expected for late Tuesday night. Into Wednesday precip rates should then start to diminish. The rain/snow line will be wavering south of the Icy Strait area through this entire time period. Please stay tuned to future updates on this impactful storm.

AKZ320-325-301500-
/O.EXT.PAJK.WS.W.0021.000000T0000Z-251231T2100Z/
Glacier Bay-City and Borough of Juneau-
Including the cities of Gustavus and Juneau
548 PM AKST Mon Dec 29 2025

... WINTER STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKST WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT... Heavy snow. Additional snow accumulations of 17 to 22 inches.

* WHERE... Glacier Bay and City and Borough of Juneau.

* WHEN... Until noon AKST Wednesday.

* IMPACTS... Travel will be very difficult. The hazardous conditions could impact the evening commute.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 26/12/2025

This post has led to a discussion in our house about how you track all this stuff?!? My theory is that you use IFTTT to log each sighting to a spreadsheet with a "Moose" button on your homescreen.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 07/12/2025

So many notifications from the National Tsunami Warning Center. Every notable aftershock requires another evaluation & "No threat" message. Ping. Ping. Ping... (I really appreciate the teams at NTWC & PTWC for their tireless critical work.) #akwx #Alaska #Tsunami #earthquake @nws.noaa.gov

A screenshot of the US National Tsunami Warning Center Slack feed on 12/7/25 showing a long string of Tsunami Information Statements following a 7.0 earthquake near Yakutat Alaska and a long series of aftershocks.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 06/12/2025

Wild. At 9 am in downtown #Juneau it's 34°F & raining up to the clouds around 1000ft. 3 miles away at Salmon Creek it's snowing at sea-level. #akwx

A Snowcloud Communications webcam view of downtown Juneau Alaska at 9:10am 12/6/2025 showing rain & clouds up the mountains.

A Snowcloud Communications webcam view of channel drive in Juneau Alaska at 9:10am 12/6/2025 showing snow on the roads at sealevel.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 11/10/2025

The condensed version of this thread is prefect. 👌🏻

A screenshot of the the first & last posts describing another terrible TV show with a colonialist name set, but not filmed, in Alaska.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 07/10/2025

If this isn't the thumbnail for your next video @techconnectify.bsky.social, I'll be disappointed.

A YouTuber in a brown jacket behind a desk points next to a 3-CRT video projector on the desk that matches the look of his t-shirt (with the colors in a different order).
The background is a bookshelf of square cubbies with 3 lava lamps (1 red, 1 green, 1 blue) amongst various other items in front of a block of solid color, different in each cubbie.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 11/09/2025

... And relocated to a less urban environment. #AlaskaProblems

A porcupine sitting in the bottom of an empty garbage can.

A porcupine warily creeping out of a garbage can on it's side next to a road in the forest at night.

A porcupine running into the forest out of a garbage can on it's side next to a road in the forest at night.

A porcupine walking into a forest at night.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 11/09/2025

Update: Busted! ##AlaskaProblems

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 30/08/2025

The ravens were super social up there last weekend.

2 ravens on Mt. Juneau overlooking the Juneau airport & Auke Bay in the distance.

A raven basks in the sun in the heather.

2 ravens talk to a hiker along a trail in Granite Creek Basin

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 12/08/2025

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology; I have access to live cameras across miles of rugged Alaskan terrain from glaciers to rivers in the palm of my hand (& you do too! youtube.com/watch?adw9frm-YRQ) and can use them to confirm that it is, in fact, still raining in Juneau, Alaska. #akwx

A screenshot of a split screen of multiple night-vision webcams from Juneau, Alaska. All showing rain.
A lake level gauge on the right displays 8.72ft, almost at flood stage.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 12/08/2025

... 16 minutes later, and about 1.6 miles downstream. That's 6 mph. It's like Pooh-Sticks, but using the whole tree.

A screenshot of a tree floating down the Mendenhall River during high water as seen on a KTOO live webstream.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 12/08/2025

The #MendenhallFlood glacial basin release hasn't even started yet, this is just high water due to rain; and there are already entire trees floating down the Mendenhall River, as seen by our live cameras at ktoo.org/flood

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 04/08/2025

🌈 Eagle River - Juneau, Alaska

A rainbow over Eagle River in Juneau Alaska, with forest & snow-capped mountains in the background, and grassland & the silhouette of trees in the foreground.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 03/08/2025

... Big day, small crew. My afternoon office has moved to covering press conferences in the Alaska State Capitol for @gavelalaska.bsky.social. First was #akleg, 2nd is #akgov

Alaska legislators hold a press conference, as seen from behind a TV camera.

A TV camera operator takes a selfie while waiting for a press conference to begin.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 02/08/2025

My office today. Operating @gavelalaska.bsky.social coverage of the #akleg State Senate solo. Normally this is a 2-person job. I'm running the cameras, but titles & at-ease music are missing without funding for that position.

A person in a black t-shirt sitting in a TV control room. There are monitors on the left and control panels on the table in the middle.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 30/07/2025

A peek behind the scenes of the @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social TV control room tonight where we just competed 3 hours of non-stop live tsunami warning emergency broadcasting on Public TV across Alaska. #Alaska #PublicBroadcasting #PublicMedia #Tsunami #Earthquake

A TV control room monitor wall. A clock at the top shows 18:10:04.
A larger "Preview" screen on the lower left shows a lost of forecasts of tsunami activity around Alaska on a red background. A matching "Program" screen to the right shows a map is tsunami warnings across Alaska and the west coast of Canada & the west coast US states.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 24/07/2025

... The WEA settings look like this on Android.

The "Wireless Emergency Alerts" setting screen on an Android cellphone.
Options are listed for turning on alerts overall, as well as by severity of alerts, including the options for receiving tests.
There is also a menu item to review alert history.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

... Landing in small planes on long runways is always fun. Our approach into Juneau today was perpendicular to the runway threshold, with a 90° turn on short final to a smooth landing. #Alaska #Aviation #Juneau #AlaskaSky 🧵7/7

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

Gondola work is progressing, slowly... #Eaglecrest #Alaska 🧵6/7

A view from a floatplane of the west side of Eaglecrest Ski Area.
"Lower Hillary's" is visible on the left, "Raven" leads down to "Log Jam" just left of center. The top of the "Porcupine" beginner area is visible in the lower right.
In the center of the frame, some forest clearing can be seen in preparation for the construction of a gondola ski lift.

An annotated view from a floatplane of the west side of Eaglecrest Ski Area.
"Lower Hillary's" is visible on the left, "Raven" leads down to "Log Jam" just left of center. The top of the "Porcupine" beginner area is visible in the lower right.
In the center of the frame, red circles indicate forest clearing can be seen in preparation for the construction of a gondola ski lift which will lead up to the ridge in the background to the location marked with a purple arrow.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

... No skiing at Eaglecrest today! #akwx 🧵5/7

The view from the cockpit of a floatplane looking through the Eaglecrest valley with Juneau Airport & Áak'w Mountain visible in the distance.

A summertime Arial view of the east side of the Eaglecrest Ski Area.
East Bowl Chutes are in the upper left. The east side gravel road winds down the mountain.

A summertime Arial view of the middle of the Eaglecrest Ski Area.
"Mother Load" comes in from the left. The gravel road from Black Bear (lower left) to the top of Hooter (center) wraps around to the lower west side in the distance.

A summertime Arial view of the east side & mid-mountain of the Eaglecrest Ski Area under the wing of a floatplane.
East Bowl Chutes are in the upper left. The east side gravel road is in the lower left. "Mother Load" is left of center, and "The Face" is visible right of center, with "Hillary's" to the right.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

More Xootsnoowú and crossing over to "the back side" of Douglas. #Alaska 🧵4/7

Snowcapped mountains of Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska) in the sun.

A rugged mountain peak of Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska) with Young Bay & Douglas Island in the background.

An aerial photo with Young Bay to the upper left and Douglas Island to the right.

An aerial photo of Douglas Island, Alaska. Hilda bay & Point are to the left, and the peak of Eaglecrest Ski Area is in the upper right.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

Your moment of zen for today. #Alaska 🧵3/7

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

Views of southern Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska) today. #Alaska #akwx 🧵 2/7

An aerial photo of the southern coastline of Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska) in the sun, water on the left and forest & meadows on the right.

Snowy mountains in the sun on southern Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska) from the air.

An arial photo of lakes amongst the forests of Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska.)

Lakes & inlets of Xootsnoowú (Admiralty Island, Alaska), with Aangóon (Angoon) covered by a marine layer of fog in the distance.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 23/06/2025

A beautiful day for a flight from Ḵéex̱ʼ (Kake, Alaska) to Juneau. Takeoff in small planes is always fun... #Alaska #Aviation #AlaskaSky 🧵 1/7

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 06/06/2025

Finally a nice break in the depressing weather, tonight things are looking a little brighter. Even if it's just a little moment of sunshine, it's very welcomed. #Juneau #Akwx

A boardwalk with handrails winds through the rainforest in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska. The ground is damp, but the clouds are breaking up to reveal blue sky after months of non-stop rain.

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Mikko Wilson @mikkowilson.com · 12/05/2025

The International Space Station just flew over the full moon over Juneau, Alaska. #iss #akwx #Juneau #Alaska

The International Space Station, a bright spot in the upper right, flies over the full moon, lower left, over Juneau, Alaska on a clear night.

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