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The journey begins

Lunch before heading off to Atlanta bound for Anchorage.
The Chugach mountains

Flying out of Anchorage bound for the Kenai peninsula. Tonight I will hopefully be situated in the cabin in Ninilchik. On side note stay away from el Jalisco in Havana food poisoning for airplane rideLæs mere
Ninilchik arrival at cabin

Arrived at cabin , seems almost same as 15 years ago, two moose on road , raining now , insulation on outhouse seat makes it comfy even in 20 below, so quiet here , saw super cub go over and fewLæs mere
Thursday May 10 excellent night

Was a nice night awoke to a crisp and refreshing 38 degrees, it is so quiet , I have to wind the clock or keep the fire crackling to sleep, I will adjust . The first pic is we’re a young bull mooseLæs mere
Friday May 11 Steelhead fishing

Woke at 6:30 to rain, I got rain gear out and headed for river , fished for four hours and nothing , but guy next to me had caught six, when he asked me to take a pic of his fish I looked at the flyLæs mere
Homer Alaska

Awoke at 5:30 and headed off to homer , tourist day and hardware store visit, homer is the end of road to go farther it must float, homer is also were I went on my long cross country solo for pilotsLæs mere
Moose

The moose are everywhere I go right now so I thought I better get some pics before they disappear, they will drop into thickets soon to have this years little ones. There is also a picture of wolfLæs mere
Volcanos rivers and lakes

What was supposed to be a rainy day turned into a clear and sunshine day views across inlet that a picture can never do justice. Mt illiamna , Mt redoubt across Cook Inlet , makes ya wanna take aLæs mere
Work a dirty word

Spent the last 4 days helping my mother in law finish up some construction projects hanging doors running casing and base my old vocation before I started fixing planes , hopefully I will finishLæs mere
On the move

Left Ninilchik village at 5 am headed north, gonna stop in birch wood and help a friend with putting his new cub crafters cub together and then I will continue north for a total of about 400 miles, ILæs mere
Wildcat cub

Started assembling Stewart’s cub today , gonna b a nice cub.
Lake hood strip and sea plane base

Were I learned to fly, busiest seaplane base in the world . Stewart’s 180 and plane pics , there are planes from horizon to horizon.
Our last house and planes crossing road

A picture of our old house, now valued at over 350,000 amazing what ten years has done to housing prices here , that’s over 1000 dollars a month appreciation, if u could see what tomorrow has inLæs mere
Summit windows and doors

Summit windows and doors only place I worked in Alaska , Brenda , Greg , and Steve in pictures, helped me learn to be an Alaskan and we all looked out for each other it was a great place to work .
Scenery is changing

Sleeping lady west of Cook Inlet viewed from parks highway, 184 miles to go today, temperatures are falling fast
Mt Mckinely, Denali

Here is a view from 43 miles of south peak of Denali and on left is Mt Fouraker, Mt hunter , Denali , moose’s tooth . It’s a rare thing to see it like this
Denali campground site 3A and pics w

Winter still has a grip up here , a few lakes I had planned to fish are still frozen solid, saw to swans in a beaver pond resting in the only open water I had seen, I’m sure they are bound for theLæs mere
Horseshoe lake trail

I took a warm up hike tonight on the horse shoe lake trail, I was thinking of walking into the park which is about 12 miles to were I had planned to spend most of tomorrow, needless to say 5 mile warmLæs mere
Animals of today

Today I saw 5 grizzly bears, 2 lone bears and sow with 2 2nd year cubs, 40 plus caribou, 3 moose , 8 Dall sheep 3 rams on that knob and 4 yews and lambs on hillside , hundreds of snowshoe hares andLæs mere
Scenery of today

I don’t think a visit to park could be much better, 3 out of 10 see Denali and she was out all 20, 000 feet and both peaks were clear, I walked down Toklat River until I thought I had gone fartherLæs mere
The sled dogs of Denali

A couple of videos of sled dogs used in park, average dog runs 1700 miles per year , the kennel takes on average 120 trips per year supporting winter operations in the park, being designated aLæs mere
Additional videos

Additional videos and pics from travel
Moved to Talkeetna Alaska

Talkeetna is refered to as a drinking village with a climbing problem , if u wanna climb Denali this is were it all begins . I’m staying at Talkeetna roadhouse were most all of legendary bush pilotsLæs mere
Talkeetna airport pics

You used to have to walk thirty days to get to mountain to start climb , now theses souped up otters do all the heavy lifting. Couple old snow machines as well,it’s 5:14 and they have closed up giftLæs mere