View from Alyeska Cable Car

Sharon Spurns a Ski Lift on Alyeska Summit

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June 5th 2017
We woke with a day of leisure on our hands. Our plans were to take the cable car up about half a mile and check out the surroundings. The area just finished hosting a three-day music festival with wonderful weather where you could see for miles; so, the pit-a-pat of rain drops outside our window was not a welcome sound, nor were the clouds that seemed to shroud the mountain outside our window. But ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more