We had a lovely drive through Hatcher's Pass and spent the first night on the gravel bar of the river bed near the Dave Churchill's memorial trail head. Had a nice camp fire and read books relaxing. Hardly a car passed by as we were almost midway down the 49 mile gravel road.
We worked our way east and stopped at several spots to take photos. It is one of the most scenic areas we have been on our entire trip. At Summit Lake I got a lovely photo of a Hairy Marmot. He even posed for me.
We hiked up April Bowl trail and became totally engulfed in the clouds. My camera battery exhausted there. Darn! We made our way over the top and down the east side to the base of the gravel road and linked the pavement. Here is where we turned left and into the Independent Mine Co. Historic Site (state park managed). We spent over 4 hours walking the self guided tour and seeing the displays and remains of the mining community. Just after we ate our lunch in the parking lot my battery was fully charged so we headed back out on those pathways again to get some photos to remember then by.
We spent a night at the Gold Mint Trail parking lot and walked up part of the trail after our supper. The next morning (and most of the night) it rained so we headed down to Wasilla and picked up our needed supplies at Walmart and Fred Meyers. We had done our laundry chores and relished long hot showers so we decided it was a good night to eat out. We had a coupon for Hacienda Mexican restaurant and had eaten there before. Buy one get one dinner free can't be beat! And there was a lovely double rainbow outside the window to boot! Rain socked in again and we slept (sort of) in Meyer's parking lot but it was quite noisy tonight. We had breakfast at Carl JR's (won't do that again) and drove off to my meeting at the Kingdom Hall.
After that we came down to Newcomb Park on Wasilla Lake and watched the regatta races. Four teams in the district put on quite a show. We walked along the shore and saw a paddle boarding vendor. He gave us a "lesson on dry land" and we were tempted to try it out. However with the water at 60 degrees and the air 59-64 I though better of it but may try it in Florida's warmer temps. However the sun is coming out again and tomorrow is looking great so we are heading back up the pass to tackle that hike we missed at Gold Mint trail head.
We hiked up April Bowl trail and became totally engulfed in the clouds. My camera battery exhausted there. Darn! We made our way over the top and down the east side to the base of the gravel road and linked the pavement. Here is where we turned left and into the Independent Mine Co. Historic Site (state park managed). We spent over 4 hours walking the self guided tour and seeing the displays and remains of the mining community. Just after we ate our lunch in the parking lot my battery was fully charged so we headed back out on those pathways again to get some photos to remember then by. 
We spent a night at the Gold Mint Trail parking lot and walked up part of the trail after our supper. The next morning (and most of the night) it rained so we headed down to Wasilla and picked up our needed supplies at Walmart and Fred Meyers. We had done our laundry chores and relished long hot showers so we decided it was a good night to eat out. We had a coupon for Hacienda Mexican restaurant and had eaten there before. Buy one get one dinner free can't be beat! And there was a lovely double rainbow outside the window to boot! Rain socked in again and we slept (sort of) in Meyer's parking lot but it was quite noisy tonight. We had breakfast at Carl JR's (won't do that again) and drove off to my meeting at the Kingdom Hall. 
I remember seeing a regatta in Alaska, but for the life of me I can't recall where it was. We are back in New Hampshire from our tour of Newfoundland and Labrador. I've got a bunch of blogs to post. I don't remember if I told you guys that I was having a terrible time accessing my blog in Canada. Every time I typed in .com the Canadian Govt changed it to .CA and I couldn't access my own blog page.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are both back safe and sound. I read you were having difficulties with your posting in CA, I was amazed you could get my blog posts. I won't go online or cell phones in CA due to AT&T now calling that International (higher rates apply and Data is even more $$$) I will be checking in more frequently on yours. (I had been looking and couldn't find any new posts) I know how much harder and time consuming catching up on posts can be.
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