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About me: I live in Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, and I'm the special sections editor at the Anchorage Daily News. My wife and I have been Alaska residents since 2000 and never plan to leave.
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A whale of a time - 8/11/2008 4:49 pm
Wonderful wildflowers - 8/8/2008 10:47 am
Feeling summery - 8/7/2008 1:48 pm
More trouble for trains - 8/1/2008 1:21 pm
Rains impact Alaska Railroad - 7/30/2008 3:06 pm
Yellow orb appears - 7/29/2008 2:41 pm
Rainbow over Flattop - 7/22/2008 3:27 pm
A Williwaw weekend - 7/15/2008 4:20 pm
A trip to the Williwaws - 7/10/2008 4:22 pm
Finding a beach - 7/7/2008 4:31 pm
Boredom (for me) and bore tides - 7/3/2008 3:20 pm
Be cautious - 7/1/2008 4:37 pm
A normal day - 6/26/2008 5:20 pm
Riding along Turnagain Arm - 6/23/2008 2:49 pm
View from the trail - 6/20/2008 10:40 am
Summer is here - 6/17/2008 10:32 pm
The bear essentials - 6/15/2008 9:57 pm
Finding Falls Creek ... finally - 6/12/2008 3:08 pm
A couple visitors - 6/8/2008 8:21 pm
Who needs 'summer' for fun? - 6/5/2008 3:02 pm
Posted: April 23, 2008 - 5:55 am
I woke up early one August morning while camping in Hatcher Pass to this view. My tent is my ticket to backcountry adventure in Alaska.
Gina and I have been visiting family and friends in Indiana and Michigan for nearly a week. It seems like I'm missing some great spring weather in Alaska, but that's OK because I'm getting mid-summer weather here.
The sun has been shining and the temperature has been in the mid-70s. Whenever I visit the Lower 48 in the spring, I worry that the temperature will get too warm -- and anything above about 75 is too warm. My Alaskan body can't take anything more. (Early next week we're headed to Tennessee to see Gina's mom, so that could be the time we melt.)
The sunshine and warm temperatures made me long for summer in Alaska. So I'm posting this picture from last summer. We visited Hatcher Pass -- one of the best places in Alaska -- for a camping trip. It'll be a few weeks before we're ready to pull the tent out back home, but I can dream.
-- Steve
May 6, 2008 - 2:39am | Cherismoore
Do you know anything about camping in Katmai in the backcountry? My husband and I are not campers but it's hard to get a camping place in their camp and want to go in July but don't want to be the only ones camping. (you have to be 1 and 1/2 miles away from the campsite)
Not being a camper and the large bear population there I want to be safe since everyone else has an electric fence. Any info would be helpful. The only thing I have found is from the park service but they just tell us that alot of people camp there but I would love to talk to some of these people. I would definitely feel safer in numbers!
Thanks,
Cheri from Florida
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1 April 23, 2008 - 4:07pm | bender_23
Definitely melt
'Early next week we're headed to Tennessee to see Gina's mom, so that could be the time we melt.'
Oh, yeah, I'm seeing some melting in your future. LOL! After four years of school in the Deep South and six more years in Virginia, I'd be in shorts by mid-March and not wanting to set foot outside by the end of May. Heh! Hopefully, it won't be too bad for you.
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