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Homer Alaska is Awesome - Homer, Alaska, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Homer, Alaska, United States Dave and Val decided to take me on a fishing vacation to Homer, Alaska. It was just awesome. It took us two days to get there because we stopped overnight in Anchorage in order to take the truck to a Chevy dealership on a recall notice. Val did some shopping at Wal-Mart while Dave and I rested in the trailer waiting for the truck to be fixed. As soon as it was fixed we hooked up and headed south. The trip south out of Anchor read

Summer in Alaska - Juneau, Alaska, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Juneau, Alaska, United States Wow, these were some of the best memories! During my summer break in college my freshman year, I went to Juneau Alaska to work at Broken Arrow Bible Camp. I worked as a horsemanship wrangler and sometimes a camp counselor. What can I say, they were some of the most amazing times of my life. Living there day and night. Riding bareback along the ocean shore. Seeing wild bears off in the distance. Watching whales splash their read

Denali 5-Piece Utility Emergency Kit

Along with the extreme weather which has plagued much of the world population over the last few seasons comes extreme consequences. Many people are left without electricity or running water, which of course, leads to some pretty awful circumstances. More and more the word of disaster preparation and awareness is being spread. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, as has been proven from disasters from the past. The Denali 5-Piece  Outdoor Utility and Emergency Kit is a basic set of tools read

Lost

In three years of editing stories for the American Alpine Journal, no one I'd been working with had died in the mountains. That's remarkable, given the difficult and dangerous routes many of these authors attempt. But last month this happy streak ended. I had been working this spring with Tatsuro Yamada from Japan on a feature article for the AAJ about the three new routes he and two companions completed in the Ruth Gorge last year. We had mostly finished the story when Tatsuro went back to Alas read

700th Post and we are in Seward tonight...

This is my 700th post... Yesterday we left Tolsano and drove down the Glenn Highway finishing the big circle, stopping in Palmer to find Dave's old house, then on to the Seward Highway, Turnagain Arm, Portage Lake and Whittier... The glacier above was along the Glenn Highway, it was huge, the blue color is scene for miles... This picture was taken at Portage Lake, the ice builds up like a traffic jam at the mouth of the river leaving the lake, the water was the most amazing shade of turquoise an read