Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Alaska”
Cordova Alaska boat harbor during a stormy, rainy night last night.
Yesterday we took the Alaska State Ferry from Whittier to Cordova, one of may favorite Alaska towns, to see the amazing shorebird migration. I have always wanted to see this amazing event, and it currently is a big hole in our Chugach National Forest coverage. Unfortunately, we have seen lots of rain, and very few birds, but that should change during the next few days… hopefully!
Look at how deep the snow is along Exit Glacier Road! Hard to believe it is May 3rd. This is near the Resurrection River bridge and is as far as you can drive right now. Judging from the snow depth, it may be awhile before you can drive the rest of the way to the glacier. Now this really isn’t the photo I was going after this morning – I better explain.Read More
Resurrection River in the Chugach National Forest, near Seward, Alaska.
Wading across this knee deep river in my ski boots was a chilling reminder that I was no longer in the desert! But it was so worth it.Read More
Well I haven’t subjected you to my shameless self promotion in awhile, but this one is too excited to pass up. For the second year in a row I have a photo on the cover of The Milepost!
As I wrote last year, this is a special cover for me, as I remember growing up, every traveler through Glennallen carried a copy of this extremely valuable travel guide. To this day, I still make sure I have the current Milepost with me as I travel around Alaska and Canada as it has detailed mile by mile descriptions of anything you may encounter – not only the mountains and rivers, but the restaurants and campgrounds as well. If you are driving to Alaska, you must have the latest copy of The Milepost!
The photo was taken in late September at Tern Lake, part of the Chugach National Forest, about 35 miles out the Seward Highway from Seward. Wait a second, a quick peak at The Milepost tells me this lake is 37.2 miles from Seward. 🙂
Aerial of Seward, Alaska.
Well aside from the one to two feet of snow South-central Alaska received last Saturday, it is great to be home! I love that drive down the Seward Highway, through the mountains and along the coast – I think I counted five moose on the way home. I also love the fresh air, it hits you as soon as you step out of the airport terminal.
This photo was captured during summer a couple of years ago. Here are more Alaska photos.
This photo was on the card in my back-up camera, a camera I didn’t need on this trip. I do remember taking this photo before leaving on this trip. This is a snow storm raging outside our front door; you can see the door frame on the edges. Normally I keep a path shoveled down to the street out front, but the snow was filling it in so fast that I said forget it and took a picture instead.
Finding this photo kind of reminded me of my film days when a partial roll would get left in a camera after a trip, only to be developed weeks or months later. It would often be a nice surprise.
I must admit, after a couple months in the warm desert, this scene looks completely foreign to me right now. I have often said that during the summer in Alaska, I have trouble even remembering what winter is like, and in the winter, summer seems equally inconceivable. I remember enough to know I am very excited to be heading back to Alaska for summer! Here are more Alaska photos.
Looking into the Chugach National Forest near Seward, Alaska.
We are hitting the road today with mixed feelings. I must admit, it is kinda tough to leave Alaska this winter because it has been such a beautiful one. I don’t know how many feet of snow we have received, but it is many, and now the days are getting longer, it is really nice here right now!
But, it is really nice in the desert right now as well. It sounds like it is going to be a good year for desert wildflowers, and we are going to enjoy the warm weather!
We break our travel up over two days, and then have a couple of days visiting family and getting everything together, so we should be arriving in Anza-Borrego State Park south of Palm Springs, California by Friday. Many people have asked, and yes I will definitely be providing plenty of desert wildflower updates, including the locations of the best blooms here on the blog.
We plan to spend a month in the Borrego area – the lower Sonoran Desert blooms first, and then we will move to Arizona to a place outside of Phoenix for another month – hopefully hitting that bloom at the perfect time as well.
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