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High Alpine Summer at Anchorage’s Arctic Valley
A mere 10 miles from the heart of downtown Anchorage brings one to a location so beautiful even the locals describe it as a “favorite”. All we need is Julie Andrews and her guitar. Arctic Valley is the pristine gateway to much of the Chugach Range’s high alpine hiking, with narrow trails winding among the […]
Eklutna is More Than Just a Lake
Hey everybody, the rain has finally stopped and the sun is back out (sort of). Time to head outside this weekend and see some more of the best in Native Alaskan history. While many visitors to Alaska make a trip to see the Alaska Native Heritage Center at the end of Muldoon road in East […]
Homer Wrap-Up
AK Fam has returned from our ten-day excuse for sleeping in and eating too much, and while the sand still clings to everything we own, we have settled back into the daily grind once more. Our last two days in Homer-Land were full with the arrival of friends from Anchorage, severely curtailing any blogging ability […]
All Clammed Up
At least it wasn’t raining. That’s how we characterized our early a.m. start for a morning of digging bivalves at little hidey-hole Whiskey Gulch. Really, the place should be be called “Whiskey Gulp”, for the dirt road leading down to the beach some 20 miles north of Homer, is steep, deep, and on a bad […]
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