Alaska

A few posts about our summer in Alaska; more are listed below.

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This photo says it all! Although, I don’t know why I’m using an exclamation mark, since this whole trip has …
We were in Fairbanks for almost a week, but, because it had been more than a month since we’d been …
Since writing this, I’ve learned more about the protection of the park through the Wilderness Act of 1964 and have …
What can I tell you about “the mountain” that you don’t already know? You know it’s the tallest mountain on …
Ever since a bear wandered through our campsite in British Columbia, we’ve kept Banjo on a short leash and almost …
I wrote my previous post from the Denali Highway this morning, and then the sun came out, and whammo—the Alaska …
I may not have any signal before my weekly email goes out, so I’m throwing up these photos and a …
“Chugach” is the name for the native peoples in this southeast region of Alaska, and it’s the name of a …
Here in southeast Alaska, we did two hikes in a week with big elevation gains—about 1,200 feet each—which for us …
It’s hard to try to wrap your head around how accessible the wilderness is here in Alaska. We’re only an …
We’re camped in Chugach National Forest, the second-largest in the country, I believe. What’s extra cool is that our campground …
The Chugach National Forest campground we stayed in called Williwaw—the one that’s right on the Trail of Blue Ice and …
Geez Louise, I just disembarked from a boat cruise of the Kenai Fjords National Park, and it was all about …
I had never been on a boat tour before, so you’ll have to skip over all this detail if you’re …
Here’s more about that boat tour we took from Seward, Alaska, along the Kenai Fjords National Park. It was such …
Melanie and Doug and Tracy and I have been playing musical camping locations the whole time we’ve been on our …
It’s been a while since we narrowly averted a tragedy, like the time we almost blew up the trailer because …