Blogs from Trapper Creek, Alaska, United States, North America

Today the Ancell's and the Osborn's were supposed to take a plane ride to see glaciers and Mt McKinley, but the weather did not cooperate. Their flight was cancelled and since the weather is supposed to be worse tomorrow, we cancelled our flight. Instead of flaying around today we went shopping in Talkeetna and had a great lunch at a local Brewery. Since my goal is to eat my weight in salmon I, of course, ate the salmon sandwich.. Yum.... Tonight we had a wonderful BBQ and the weather was very cooperative (cool, but no rain). Tomorrow we are off to Anchorage.... read more

We left Seward driving north on the Seward Highway with overcast skies and clouds making haloes around the taller mountains. We stopped at a salmon hatchery for a few minutes and saw lots of baby salmon, some about to be released into nearby creeks. We drove over Moose Pass and past the Sterling Hwy to the Portage Hwy. We stopped at the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center on Portage Lake. There we saw our first icebergs, which had calved off of Portage Glacier. They were the most amazing shade of blue. After the visitor center we drove through a tunnel to a scenic viewpoint where we could see a corner of Portage Glacier and got pretty good views of Shakespeare, Burns, and Byron Glaciers. They were all so beautiful. We then drove back to the Seward Hwy ... read more