UPSTREAM RIVER ADVENTURE
So mom saw a commercial on TV about a jet boat that goes upstream and gets very close to some class VI white water rapids in a narrow canyon with a 90 degree turn. The rest is history. This was[…]
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Tag: Mountains
RAFTING ON THE MATANUSKA
After our exhilarating glacier hike, we found ourselves driving an hour to the NOVA office the next day to ride a raft down the river. You can read about the hike here if you missed it. They issued us rain[…]
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THE EMERALD ISLE OF ALASKA
Although we have driven for most of this road trip, we hopped on an Alaskan Airlines flight out of Anchorage to head to Kodiak Island, the “emerald isle” and second largest island in the United States. This post with pictures[…]
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DRIVING PAST BIRD TO GIRD
We took another day trip from Anchorage down the Seward Highway to Girdwood. On the way, we passed the Bird Ridge Trailhead and Bird Creek. There is a bike path called the Bird to Gird that is 12 miles long[…]
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WHY WHITTIER?
We set out from Anchorage to ride the tram at the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood and ended up going to Whittier instead. Why? There were too many clouds and we definitely would not have a view from the top of[…]
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WE TOOK AN EXIT
Not an exit, but a road. We decided to drive down Exit Glacier Road to see a couple attractions. At the end of the road, we parked with all the other cars and took a hike. The Park Rangers were[…]
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SCENIC SEWARD
The 120 mile drive from Ninilchik to Seward was breathtaking. The two lane road snaked through the turns in the valley and we could see mountains on both sides of the road. The different colors of vegetation represent how long[…]
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COLUMBIA GLACIER
I want to first apologize for being so late with this post. Three of us got sick and slept an entire day and then we had no 3G or LTE coverage until we arrived in Anchorage yesterday. Like I have[…]
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GOODBYE SKAGWAY
Our 5 days in Skagway were great and gave us our first glimpse of Alaska. We were ready to head farther west and get away from the cruise ship crowd by the fifth day. I mean no offense to cruisers,[…]
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GOLD RUSH TRAIN
One of the top tourist attractions in Skagway is the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad adventure. This train and track were built soon after the Klondike gold rush was over. We heard from several people that we should make[…]
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