Category: Photos

The weather of late has been sort of crappy, overcast with bit of light rain here and there. Summer started out really nice, highs in the 70’s and at times in the 80’s with lots of sunny skies. All that has changed. For the past couple weeks cloudy with light rain as been the norm.

The funny thing about all this is what they call rain up here. Yesterday it rained a good part of the day, steady but light rain, nothing very hard at all. Now on the weather forecast last night they were calling it heavy rain with receiving 1/2 inch for the day. That is not what I would call heavy rain, not in the least. Heavy rain is getting 1 -2 inches in an hour, not 1/2 inch all day. The weather here, at least in the two years I’ve been here, has been quite uneventful, summer and winter, not what I’m use to anyway.

Yesterday I headed out to do some shopping, but on the way I headed out to Reflections Lake for a short walk.

Some photos from yesterday.

Fireweed

Pioneer Peak

View over the lake

Ducks

’til next time
Laters
Ed

No not that beaver ya perv.

Shots of the beavers from yesterday.

Just some views from yesterday.

Not sure yet what this is.

The day wasn’t the greatest weather wise, but I grabbed the dogs and headed out anyway. The weather report called for clearing this afternoon, so I thought I might try to hike up to Lane and Snowbird Glaciers. Both of these are a few miles hike past the end of Archangel Rd. We made it as far as Lane Hut, groups maintain these old mining huts for climbers to hunker down in incase of bad weather. I was just about cloud height. The skies never did clear, in fact, I got sort of cold and had to dig out the coat out of my backpack. Sure am glad I’ve started carrying my pack.

I hung out at Lane Hut for a while, eat lunch, hoping the skies would clear, then headed back.

On the way back I heard a splash in one of the many beaver ponds. Stopped, looked around, and sure enough, there were two beavers swimming around and diving at something, fish maybe.

Jan was going to be around the house today so I wanted to be sure to be out to give her some peace while she was here.

Photos.

One of the beavers. I shot lots of photos of this guy swimming around and diving.

Lane Hut. As you can see the clouds are hanging low up here.

Waterfall on the way up. It doesn’t really show, but this fall is at least 20 tall.

A ground squirrel watching me up near the Hut.

A view on the drive out.

The road on the way back down.

Holboells Rockcress

’til next time
Laters
Ed

D-Day, as in Divorce Day.Yep, today is/was the day that we, Jan and I, went to the courthouse in Palmer to finalize our divorce. This was the final step in the process, although we are still legally married until the letter from the court arrives in the mail, our marriage has ended. Alaska has a pretty quick process in regards to this, it goes back a good number of years when women would come up here to marry some guy and find out later that, well, for one, he may not bathe but once a month or for some other reason he’s just not right for her, and then she, or he, can get a divorce quite quickly and get the hell out. This isn’t the case with us, it’s just, um, not working out.

I do feel that Jan and I will still be good friends, but it will take a bit of time for both of us, but I’m sure we will. Afterwards, after being in the courthouse that is, we talked for a few minutes, hugged, cried, and went on our way, me home and Jan back to work.

I’ll always be there for Jan, what ever it may be, I’ll be there, and I feel she’ll be the same for me. We are both going through some shit, but I wont go into that.

One more thing, I need a new damn keyboard! I spilt something on it quite some time ago and just can’t get the keys from sticking. Dammit!

Couple photos from last week in Archangel Valley that I haven’t taken the time to process.

’til next time
Laters
Ed

Woke up this morning thinking I’d do a bit a grocery shopping then just stick around the house. That just didn’t happen. I headed out to do the shopping, but the weather was so nice I thought I’d take a “quick” trip down to the Palmer Hay Flats. Well after walking a path along Cottonwood Creek, I’ve never walked this trail before, for about an hour I realized I needed to head back and get the shopping done. So much for doing nothing, a 2 hour walk along a creek of nothing. I’ll be back to walk this further another time with the dogs.

After shopping I cleaned out the Jeep a bit, mostly just trash that needed to be tossed. I also sized up a mounting place on the roof for my Gerrycan, found a perfect tight spot next to the spare tire. I wanted to see if the Gerrycan could be mounted on the roof for my up coming trip of 5 days down to the Kenai Peninsula. I headed down there for a bit of a get-away July 28 – August 1. Really looking forward to this, I just hope I’ll have enough money, if not, I’ll have to cut it short by a couple days.

Some photos from the Hay Flats today.

Looking across the Flats with some Lenticular clouds.

Looks like it might be stormy Anchorage way.

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Fireweed and Northern Yarrow

Squirreltail Grass

’til next time
Laters
Ed

I had no plans for today, didn’t even know if I was going out or not. But, when I woke up, looked out the window, I knew I had to get out in the warm sun. Although the sun slowly faded behind the clouds as the day went on, it was still a great day to be outdoors. Aren’t they all?

We, the dogs and I, headed up the Archangel again, only this time I found a spot that looked nice and stopped, walked up a small hill and onto the tundra. No trails, no tracks, nothing but beauty surrounding me.

Weeeeee, just as I’m posting this we had a really nice earth quake. 🙂
A nice 5.25 Magnitude.

Some of the photos I took today.

Broken Peak.

Looking down Archangle Valley

Looking up.

A lone tree. There are no other trees of any size anywhere in sight.

Lupine View

Small creek that the dogs enjoyed seeing.they needed a drink.

Some wild flowers

Spring Beauty

Berry Blossoms

Not sure what this is.

Dandelion and Lupine

’til next time
Laters
Ed

Where I started from. You can just see my Jeep as a little speck.

Closer.

Bullion Mountain Ridge.

Just a few more photos from yesterday.

Couple views from the top.

Craigie Creek Valley is to the left side of the ridge and Willow Creek Valley to the Right.

Looking down to cloudy Craigie.

Willow Creek Valley. Hatcher Pass is over on the left.