Note We’ve been having trouble completing blog entries because the internet in our currrent AirBnB is spotty. Hopefully we’ll get this one done today. We’ll be moving from Seward to Homer on Friday. Rainy Sunday The weather was predicted to be a bit more rainy and cloudy on Sunday that it had been the the…
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Ptarmigan Lake
Hiking We drove to the trailhead and walked up Ptarmigan Creek. In many places the path was nearly overgrown. We’re supposed to make noise so any bears around know that we’re there. Today the noise was me complaining about the overgrown path. Eventually we arrived at this lake: Then we took our own picture in…
Alice Mountain
Hiking After a long hike yesterday we decided on the shorter hike up to Alice Mountain today. It was only 5 miles round trip to the top, but it gained about 2500 feet. Ultimately we failed to reach the peak because of snow but we stopped only 300 feet below the summit and the views…
Lost Lake
The Decision We hadn’t decided what to do today but we had driven past a sign on the highway into Seward that pointed to the trailhead for Lost Lake. This was a hike that Arlene had noticed months ago when we were planning how long we would stay in Seward and what we might do…
Seward
The Arrival After our flight back from the Arctic Circle we drove from Anchorage to our new AirBnB just outside of Seward. The drive was a bit over two hours and we found the AirBnb at about 9:45pm local time which is about 10:45 PDT which is 45 minutes past bedtime. And that’s how it…
Utqiaġvik
The Flight Arlene and I had mostly packed on Friday night and on Saturday morning we finished that process and left the dry cabin near Denali at about 6:40am. The first 90 minutes of the drive were the same route that we had taken the previous Saturday to see spectacular views of moutains all the…
