Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
If anyone has been out picking blueberries, the impact of a dry warm spring is evident as I have continued picking them for the past month. Blueberries in the Pass usually last a few weeks. But with no freeze yet, they just get better, much like fresh snow over one’s favorite skin-ski trip. I replaced my old camera with the same […]
Read moreLooming large above Thompson Pass and below Sapphire Peak, the 27 Mile Glacier pours out of a high basin, frozen in a desperate attempt to invade the valley below. Since the 1970’s and the advent of melting glaciers around the world due to our over-consumption of fossil fuels, Valdez stands as a witness to global warming and the dramatic […]
Read moreWhile we might buy our fish locally versus casting or dipping, berries are a different story. It’s a power food and there is plenty of evidence to back it up and plenty of high prices at the store to temper their enjoyment. One should be gobbling them up by the handfuls or pouring a cup into whole wheat pancake batter […]
Read moreWith the monsoon season drenching Valdez, Tabitha and I loaded up the rig and headed north to the Alaska Range again for some backpacking. Rainbow Ridge is a strikingly colorful feature above the highway to the east as it descends north from Isabel Pass. The guide book Outside In The Interior by Kyle Joly gives the basics about a number […]
Read moreKudo’s to local rock scrambler Nick Weicht and pals for opening the trail behind the airport runway. The trail was abandoned many years ago. It was used as a road from Old Town to the campground and Valdez Glacier. In the 80’s when I worked at the Campground, Chuck Comstock and I pioneered the rocks above the entrance and […]
Read moreThompson Pass to McCarthy as the crow flies? Valdezeans Chis Shumate and Kalin King are on the trail as of 1030am along with other’s from the area including Tory Dugan, Meg McKinney and Matt Kress. For Chris, Kalin and Tory, it’s their second attempt to complete the course though they ended up in….Cordova. This “race” series began in the 1980’s, created […]
Read moreFound this slot canyon filled with water (see 20 sec video below) near the terminus of the Worthington Glacier today and with Jordan Pond, hiked up the East Spine Trail for some summer views [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/102368899[/vimeo]
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