AuroraHunter

Name: AuroraHunter
Address: Anchorage, AK, US
Telephone: +19072504711
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Todd Salat is one of Alaska's premier Aurora Borealis photographers. AuroraHunter.com They reside in Anchorage and enjoy a cabin retreat in Hatcher Pass.
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About Todd Salat - The Aurora Hunter
Todd Salat was born an Iowa country boy, making his way to the mountains as often as possible. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in geology at the University of South Dakota in 1986 and a Masters in geology from the University of Wyoming in 1989. With that, he scored a job as an exploration geologist and made that big right-hand turn to Alaska. As a geol

ogist, he enjoyed exploring and unraveling the earth history of the Brooks Range of Alaska and the Andes of Venezuela. However, the seven-year-itch came upon him and he resigned from his corporate day job. The first dream he chased was a year-long walkabout in the "Land Down Under," Australia & New Zealand. Todd returned to Alaska in 1997 to follow through on his dream of becoming a full-time freelance photographer. The next big chapter in life began with a blind date, and in 2001 he married the love-of-his-life, Shay. With a heated camper on their truck, they eagerly follow their mission statement:

Be There ~ Preserve the Moment ~ Share It!

09/06/2026

DENALI LYNX YOWL-OFF (Audio On!)
Came across this feline conversation the other night along Alaska’s Denali Park Road. Anyone speak Caterwauling? 🐈

09/04/2026

DENALI FIX
The Alaska weather forecast had two sunny September days in a row for the Denali area earlier this week. Shay saw the look in my eyes and in no time flat helped me stock the camper and I soon beat cheeks northward from Anchorage. Miles later I rounded a bend and saw the peak of The Mountain standing out and my heart soared. Oh, how I appreciated and quite frankly needed that Denali injection. I didn’t get lucky with the aurora (yet;) but here’s some recent photos that’s helping me get into the September groove.

08/30/2026

Time to play FREEBIRD! 🎶
Thanks to all who supported us during this wonderful summer. Today is our last day at the Anchorage Weekend Downtown Market for Shay & I. We are ready to head out camping and enjoy Alaska’s change of the seasons.

08/21/2026

“BLONDIE” flashback
A handful of summers ago in Alaska’s Denali National Park, I rounded a bend and found a “Toklat” blond grizzly filling the side of the park road ahead. With a Professional Photographer “ProPho” permit in hand, I was driving my own truck instead of riding the park bus and, as I eased past the bear on the far side of the road, it lifted its massive head and locked eyes with me. One pulse-stopping glance and one quick shot through the window. Then I kept rolling. When I looked back, Blondie had already returned to feeding. For 19 years, that permit gave me rare access to Denali’s wildest surprises—raw, sudden moments that still thrill me to the bone!

For the past five years, the park road has been closed at Mile 43 in Polychrome Pass. The west end of Denali must be getting wilder by the minute—quieter, emptier, and more fully claimed by bears, wolves, and weather. NPS sources (linked in comments) indicate the new bridge over the Pretty Rocks Landslide is expected to be completed and open for summer 2027.

P.S. for Promo Spot ~ I’m printing up a few Matted 8x10 of “Blondie” for this weekend’s Anchorage Weekend Downtown Market , our second-to-last before we hit the trail for AK parts unknown.

08/19/2026

HEY, WHAT’S THAT?!
Anchorage, Alaska, August 19, 2026 at 12:45 am.

08/16/2026

Cheers to some of our recent Alaska summer fun! Working hard or hardly working…

08/14/2026

JUST A TASTE
Was teased by a few hours of faint-to-fair aurora activity from midnight-to-3 am this morning, August 14, 2026, in Southcentral Alaska. Shay & I blasted out of Anchorage for a campfire last night and the auroras were a light dessert.

08/07/2026

AURORA KICKOFF
And so it begins... While photographing Noctilucent Clouds around Glennallen, Alaska at 2:40 am on August 7, 2026, a cute green aurora band photobombed the twilight scene. Love it when that happens! Especially since these are the first “lights” I've spotted this season as darkness slowly falls across the northland. And after eight straight hours of negative/southward Bz Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF), I’m glad Earth’s magnetic field finally coupled with the solar wind for this brief cameo appearance. Aurora game on.

07/31/2026

SEWARD SUNSHINE
Make hay while the sun shines! With a break in the weather I road-tripped from Anchorage-to-Seward then embarked on a relaxing 4-hour afternoon tour into Alaska’s Kenai Fjords on July 29, 2026. Resurrection Bay (Rez Bay as the captain called it) was so fine it blew my mind. Thanks again Major Marine Tours for yet another awesome seaworthy experience.

07/29/2026

TWILIGHT TREATS
A full moonrise and some very cool Noctilucent Clouds (NLCs) were on the early a.m. dessert menu for July 29, 2026, on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. It’s been months since I’ve seen semi-darkness of this nature in the Land of the Midnight Sun so I’d almost forgotten how much fun “nighttime photography” can be!

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