Sunny Saturday

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Posted: November 5, 2008 - 5:35 pm

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Redoubt Volcano rises in the distance across Cook Inlet from the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. Ice is layered along the edges of Rabbit Creek.

Gina and I headed down to the Turnagain Arm Trail on Saturday afternoon for the last glimpse of before-“fall-back” fun.

(Since daylight saving time ended, the sunsets have been before 5 p.m. Of course, that’s nothing. Come the end of December, sunset will be around 3:45 in the afternoon.)

So we grabbed a chance to enjoy a late sunset – around 6 p.m.

Saturday afternoon's sunshine shimmers off the mud flats in Turnagain Arm.

Turnagain Arm Trail is one of our favorite all-season hiking trails. You can start any number of places and the view is always great across Turnagain Arm to the Kenai Mountains. On Saturday, we ventured off trail – aided by the late fall day with almost no snow cover. We could tromp around in places that are often challenging to reach in the summer.

On the way home, we couldn’t resist one more look at the sunset, so we pulled the car off the road near Potter Marsh. We tromped over the railroad tracks, and were stunned by a moonlike setting: cakes of ice layered along the edges of Rabbit Creek as it snaked through the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge toward Cook Inlet. It was fabulous.

Enjoy; we certainly did.

-- Steve

The sun dips toward the horizon across Cook Inlet.

Beezil checks out Turnagain Arm from a perch above the Seward Highway.

Birch trees stripped of their yellow leaves reach toward a blue sky on Saturday.

Ice reflects sunset light along Rabbit Creek as the creek snakes its way toward Cook Inlet.

Red rosehips along the Turnagain Arm Trail.

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