Sunday Racing season ended yesterday with Arlene securing the win in the 60-64 Lightweight 5K World Championship. We decided to take off for a few days. We started by driving up to Port Townsend to catch the ferry to Whidbey Island. We left about 10am and arrived at the ferry terminal at about 11:15. On…
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The Day We Started the Trip Home
Packing We have a set of cardboard boxes each of which fits in a specific place in the car. We packed up all of our boxes. Our cooler goes near the rear. This packing was a bit different thought because we were planning on taking our suitcase, one of the coolers, both of our computer…
Thursday and Friday
Whittier On Thursday we went to Whittier. There is only one road from Anchorage to Whittier and it involves a single lane tunnel that runs under Maynard Mountain and is 2.5 miles long. The single lane contains a set of railtracks as well and, in fact, from when the tunnel was constructed in the early…
Grewingk Lake and the Alpine Trail
The Entire Day Arlene and I left the AirBnB at 6:20am to catch a 7am water taxi across Kachimak Bay. We reached the beach on the other side at about 7:30am with 6 hours before another water taxi would pick us up on a different beach. We were the only ones on the boat and…
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…
Lost Lake
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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…
Lakes and Clouds and Bears, Oh My
Last night as we were settling down the evening, a large plume of smoke from a fire north of Healy engulfed our little home away from home. Fortunately, we woke up this morning to clear air. The sky was overcast and we were a little tired from our off trail excursion so we spent a…