Two days ago, we went on a long dayhike, with the intention of going up the Sanctuary River, over a pass below Double Mountain, then down the Teklanika River to the park road. While walking through the tundra (not easy -- imagine a wierd, lumpy waterbed, with shrubs planted on it, and your walking on it with nerf balls tied to your feet), Ross made the comment that it was like we were walking through a watercolor. ... he was right -- in front of us, tall, snow-covered peaks. To our left, a deep, gurgling river. The aspen in the stream beds and along the river were turning gold and all around us blueberries and other tundra shrubs and fireweed were turning crimson red (it is FALL here).
Everything closes down for the season around here on September 19. The colors have changed quite dramatically in the week and a half we've been here, and there is a new chill in the air.
Off to Seward...
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We stayed in Anchorage and made trips to Wasilla on three different days. Ray accomplished what he set out to do and had a half dozen interviews. I read and found other ways to enjoy the trip. On Sunday I met up with persons who share mutual friends with me and enjoyed my visit with them.
We were thinking of you yesterday. I saw some bikers and wondered if you were going to get a chance to bike. The weather was better yesterday around Anchorage, not so cloudy, and there were better views of the mountain range. After completing interviews yesterday we were visiting the Earth Quake Park in Anchorage, which comemorates the 1964 earthquake that Alaska experienced. That is where we saw the bikers and hikers. We hiked the trail there and it was not anything like hiking you did. The wildlife we saw were trophy cases. The coastal bear are huge. They have more salmon to feed on, which contributes to their growth. There were no moose crossing the highways though there was a sign that about a dozen had been seen near the highway since the beginning of July.
Enjoy the rest of your trip. Georgine
I agree that fall is in the air and it was certainly more true for you and Ross given you were a couple of hundred miles north of us.
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