"Think of journaling as baltering with pen in hand." ~ Terry Hershey

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Alaska II

Skagway

Morning: beer and music
















Then, rock climbing, a rock face! Amazing!!


More amazing? Rappelling!
The step off the ledge: the scariest thing I've ever done!!

















Icy Strait

History













and a hike 
















Hubbard Glacier

The glacier, one mile, nearer and half-mile
And the joke: See the bear? That black dot!



Denali

We're not in Kansas anymore.
86 miles away!


Elk in snow, Denali from the park, we of the 33%
Flowers and elk stalking




From the wild, going home



Ps.   From Northern Exposure, a tv series we watched back in the day that was set in Alaska, "It's not the thing you fling; the fling's the thing," I say, it's not the scenery we saw but the people we saw it with. That's the thing. But of this blog of a lone woman  there are no photos of others, even though those are the best photos I have.