James: "Fall time family adventure to Portage Valley and Lake. Weather was better than Anchorage"
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Portage - October 8, 2017
James: "Fall time family adventure to Portage Valley and Lake. Weather was better than Anchorage"
Hatcher's Pass - September 4, 2017
We visited The Independence Mine Historical Site on the last day of summer operation. Beautiful day up in Hatcher's Pass to explore an old mining operation. There is evidence in the area of current mining, but not in this mining area.
Yurt life and Tutka Lake hike - August 21, 2017
The surprise Treehouse (airbnb)
Vacation = exercise: First (on Sunday) we had to haul all our stuff down two flights of stairs from our apartment. It was raining, so we left the truck behind the apartment building in covered parking and James hauled everything from the front steps around to the truck and loaded it.
Vacation = exercise: First (on Sunday) we had to haul all our stuff down two flights of stairs from our apartment. It was raining, so we left the truck behind the apartment building in covered parking and James hauled everything from the front steps around to the truck and loaded it.
Then we spent the night in a treehouse, so we hauled stuff up a flight of stairs and down again this morning.
At the harbor, it was low tide, so we hauled all the stuff down a very steep ramp to the boat.
Then we got to our beach. Low tide, remember? So we had to haul everything up the rocky beach to get to the trail. Our yurt was still another hundred yards or so along the muddy trail across a log bridge and lots of tree roots.
Who packed so much stuff? Oh yeah, me.
Blueberry bushes and Tutka Lake. Further along, there is a waterfall and Lincoln was determined to get there. We finally got around the lake and into terrain that looked and sounded promising for being close to the falls.
James said, "I hear people." But it wasn't people. It was a small black bear cub and it climbed a tree and started hollering for it's mom. We went back down the trail a ways and that little bear didn't climb down and it didn't stop crying. So we gave up on the falls. James thought he heard the mama calling to her cub, but for sure we listened to the cub making noise from it's tree for a long time.
Lincoln and Meta were both disappointed about missing the falls. They weren't as impressed with setting and hearing the bear. Then Meta fell asleep and it started raining again. So our hike back was more of a march through the rain. Lincoln is a trooper!
When Meta woke up, she ended up in James's backpack. All that gear and we didn't bring the kid-pack our the camp chairs
The Bruin Bay - August 20, 2017
We missed our water taxi on tonight (Sunday), because of the need for a new alternator. But when we got into Homer, we took the opportunity to find the harbor out on the spit where we would be meeting the water taxi in the morning. And we saw the Bruin Bay. This fishing vessel used to be based out of Cordova. James was a hand on the ship for a couple weeks sometime before we met.
Father's Day glider - August 7, 2017
poor glider
fireweed
fireweed
Seward Adventure - August 1, 2017
Eagle River Nature Center - July 31, 2017
Eagle River Nature Center. Albert Loop Trail - 3 miles.
Deadhorse - July 12-19, 2017
James is working "off site" for a week. From Wednesday July 12 - Wednesday July 19th. He is filling in for the mechanic who normally works a 2 weeks on/2 weeks off schedule at Deadhorse, but is currently on vacation. The first week was covered by another mechanic and the second week by James. It may not come up again for James to be based away from Anchorage, but it has been an interesting trip!
James is staying in a tiny room for the week and watching over his company's planes that land and take off there. He's been able to visit the "town" of Deadhorse - where there is a general store and other businesses. You can actually drive to Deadhorse at the end of the Dalton Highway - which is basically a big dirt road that follows the Alaska pipeline. They also drove out to Kuparuk (about 30 miles away) - which is the other airbase that James occasionally flies to with his job. He didn't get to visit Prudhoe Bay, but he took a picture of a t-shirt. He has seen caribou, musk oxen and birds.
❤️ that smile (7.17.17)
Souvenir T-shirts from Deadhorse (7.19.17)
James is staying in a tiny room for the week and watching over his company's planes that land and take off there. He's been able to visit the "town" of Deadhorse - where there is a general store and other businesses. You can actually drive to Deadhorse at the end of the Dalton Highway - which is basically a big dirt road that follows the Alaska pipeline. They also drove out to Kuparuk (about 30 miles away) - which is the other airbase that James occasionally flies to with his job. He didn't get to visit Prudhoe Bay, but he took a picture of a t-shirt. He has seen caribou, musk oxen and birds.
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