Position: 60°10’56.7″N 149°38’25.5″W After learning that the US Fish and Wildlife Service maintains Deadman Lake, a free campsite just over the border in Alaska, we headed there with all possible haste. Despite the incongruity of his Mohawk hairstyle, the US …
Position: 58°46’49.9″N 130°06’00.3″W The last time I visited Alaska was 12 years ago. That’s when I rode there on my motorcycle with my buddy Sledge (see photo). I learned a lot on that trip and looked forward to revisiting many …
Position: 63°40’16.3″N 149°34’45.1″W Today President William McKinley is mostly famous for getting assassinated and having a mountain named (and renamed) after him. He was a noted booster of protective tariffs and believed protectionism would bring prosperity. Thus, he was as …
Position: 58°33’17.7″N 155°47’28.0″W The morning of our big bear adventure rose sunny, cool and calm. Carol, on a mission to experience as much of Alaska as money would allow, had booked us a couple of seats on a Bald Mountain …
Position: 48°54’09.4″N 121°54’43.0″W Car camping is distinct among other styles of camping. Backpacking, rightly, has shifted from a 1970s question of how much weight can I carry, to, how much money can I afford to spend on ultralightweight gear? Car …
Position: 48°34’04.8″N 123°28’11.3″W There were two last stops on our Alaska inside passage itinerary. The first stop was Wrangell. Founded by the Russians in 1811 and later named for Ferdinand von Wrangel, chief manager and governor of the Russian-American Company …
Position: 57°03’09.4″N 135°20’13.8″W Icy Strait Point survives on cruise ships. The little hamlet sits at the crossroads of salmon migration in and out of Icy Strait. For years its economy was built around a salmon cannery. When that finally closed, …
Position: 60°00’22.3″N 139°31’32.6″W From Juneau Captain Ward turned the ship back towards the ocean for a couple of “days at sea”. Days at sea is cruise-speak for periods that do not include tying up and allowing the punters time on …
Position: 58°25’37.8″N 134°32’14.8″W Our feet had fully dried out, and an excess of lubberliness filled in around our waistlines. Our respective conditions had grown serious enough that only a spell at sea would ameliorate our symptoms, if not the underlying …
