Yesterday, Sunday Sept. 13th, we had decided to meet Hans at Hoodsport Coffee Company (https://hoodsportcoffee.com/) and then hike up to Mount Ellinor (https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/mount-ellinor). Before we left the house we hoped to see the final stage of La Vuelta Ciclista a España. Unfortunately, and traditionally, the final stage of a grand tour begins more as a…
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The First Few Days in Anchorage
Tides Tides in Anchorage vary my more than 30 feet. There is an island southwest of Anchorage in the north end of Cook Inlet that is not an island during low tide. When the tide out the mud flats stretch to the horizon. We ought to go back to that place (Kincaid Park) during high…
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…
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
Posted on Author GregoryPosted in Alaska, Alaska Trip, Birds, Flowers, Lakes, Moutains, Other wildlife, Waterfalls
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…
Hiking to Primrose Ridge
Preparation We started the day with a bowls of cereal. I had drip coffee and Arlene had espresso made with her Nespresso machine. Then we followed the end of stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse which was an individual time trial. (There is a website, https://www.procyclingstats.com/, which has pretty good webby-coverage of all of…
Driving down an Alaskan highway listening to ABBA
Taking An Easy Day Saturday after multiple days of hiking on tired and sore legs, Arlene and I decided to take an easy day. Arlene had found what was supposed to be a good place to see Denali. So in the morning we set off on a drive to the South Viewpoint of Denali State…
We Have Seen the Mountain
Buses In Denali National Park and Preserve there is a single main road that is roughly 92 miles long going from the entrance of the park on Highway 3 to Kantishna. The first 15 miles is paved and goes out to Savage River which is as far into the park as private vehicles are allowed…
In the Yukon
Smithers After Prince George we drove to Smithers, a cool little town in the shadow of Hudson Bay Moutain. We walked the neat downtown area in about 20 minutes. Two places of interest were Smithers Brewing Company and Bugwood Coffee. We stopped at the brewery and bought their attempts at an American Wheat and a…