I know I know, I have not been posting a lot lately but it is really hard to sit in front of a computer when I come home from work, since I work in front of a computer all day. I have also been trying to develop some pictures so I can post them online, but posting pictures on ablog takes a long time, so I have been lazy about that too. I guess I am lazy all around, but believe when there is 16 hours of sunlight out, you really do not want to be inside.
I hope everybody had a great 4th of July weekend. We went to
Valdez for the weekend and had tons of fun. Valdez is one of those towns that has the feeling of Scotland (according to Zion) during the summer and it is perpetually green. On the way to Valdez, we stopped at
Worthington Glacier, one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen in my life. This was the closest to I have ever been to a glacier. (Yes there are not that many glaciers in southern Turkey, somehow, I do not think they will survive the 100-125 F heat.) We actually climbed a trail, or mostly climbed bony spine of a ridge, glacier on the one side and a drop on the other, all in single file. I actually had to stop at some point due to height, wind and fear for my life and of course Zion continued on. I cannot wait to get the pictures to show you all.
For all interested we camped at a cute campsite, called
Glacier Campground. The campground was nice, it even had its own waterfall at the community picnic area. (I should say I am not a fan of outhouses, but I love camping and making smores and eating them till I die from sugar intake, so I loved it.)
While we were in Valdez, we hiked most of the time. The city is a cute fishing town, so you can probably spend a morning there but not more than that. People usually go there for fishing, for rafting, sea kayaking and hiking. There are some great trails in Valdez and of course, nosotros tried two of them in one day. We hiked the
Pack Trail and the first part of the
Shoup Bay Trail. Both of these trails have wild life, i.e. bears, so I was pretty nervous about going but the view from them was so gorgeous that we had to do it. Especially the
Bridal Veil Falls and the
Horse Tail Falls which you can see close up during the Pack Trail hike were mystical.
I am hoping to get these pictures up soon, but in time meantime check out these links and let me know what you guys think.
We were in Eklutna Lake in March. Eklutna Lake is 20 to 30 minutes south of Palmer. It is one of the best places for hiking, canoeing, and snowshoeing. On the day we hiked, we saw cross-country skiers on the lake but unfortunately our camera could not capture them. We hiked for 6 miles total, which was three miles to the first public use cabin on the lake. The view from the cabin is gorgeous as you can see from the pictures.
