The morning before the wedding and the day we drove out of town we skiing up on Thompson Pass. The first day was only my girlfriend’s second day backcountry skiing ever, so we did a pretty mild and short run on the East side the road, on the shoulder of Odyssey. The second day was [...]
At last we arrived in Valdez. When we got there it was - as it often is - cloudy and rainy but it was exciting to see our friends and catch up and drink and generally have a good time. We were to stay at a neighbors house just across the green space from the [...]
The old mining town of Hope on the Turnigan Arm is no longer a town. It is, however, an interesting collection of classic Alaskan “compounds” tucked in the trees and surrounded by junk. It’s also has a nice campground. We drove past Hope up to the Resurrection trailhead and camped beside the road. We picked [...]
The Glenn Highway comes down the Matanuska Valley - famous for it’s gigantic vegetables - through Palmer and into Anchorage. We turned off the road before Anchorage to spend the night up in Chugach State Park by Eklutna Lake. It’s a reservoir, but a very scenic one. It was unspeakably nice to be finished with [...]
