Road Trip To Canada

You can see the sun is starting to go down... but it takes a lot longer to set in the North than it does back home.



We ended up changing a ladies flat tire...



Here are all the animals we saw on our trip.



Lynx.



The moose we saw was too fast to get a shot of him. So sorry this is a stolen pic.



An excellent way to finish off the day. This was our first sunset in Alaska. In Skagway we are surrounded by mountains and never get to see the sun actually set.

Transportation in Skagway

Most people that get off their outrageously humungous ships, full of all you can eat bars and entertainment 24/7, opt to take the White Pass Train. One of the last narrow gauge RR's built in America. This is a historic engine that they run on fridays only, the rest of the week you would have to ride the diesel engine.



Streetcar, these things are cruising the streets like little bees gathering honey non stop. They do look pretty fun to ride on though. Behind is on of the medium size cruise ships that come into town each day.



This is my Bus! At any given time of the day, you might see me roaming the streets of Skagway with or without passengers.

Backpacking #2

In celebration of Carlies Birthday, we set out on a 4 mile hike up to Upper Dewey Lake. It is 10 p.m. here and we would make it to our cabin by midnight.



We tried to make pancakes in a bread pan. Didn't work to well over an open fire. Here you can see the cabin we stayed in.



We shared the Cabin with a Japanese Guy that told us his name several times and we forgot it so we referred to him as Talk. But the cabin was full of peoples signatures and business cards and words of wisdom scratched into its ancient walls. We woke Talk up at midnight when we got there and he was more than happy to let us come in and set up camp with him.



Just off to the right over the mountain is a big glacier and there was supposedly a waterfall coming right off of it that we tried to find and failed.

Wild Edibles Hunt: Early Season

We were convinced this was miners lettuce, but upon further investigation, we discovered that it wasn't. However, we are still investigating to see if we will consider it food.


Young Cattail sprouts. The base of the stalk is very tender and makes a nice addition to ANY salad.


We weren't sure if this was edible or not. So we harvested the bad boy, brought it home and Carlie took a nibble. She felt a little loopy for the next four to five hours so we decided to throw it out... no, she didn't really try it. For now it remains unidentified but in case you can't tell, it is a type of wooded mushroom.

Wedding Photos

Check out all of our awesome wedding photos at Jonathan Canlas's Site.  If you were there for part of the reception your pictures are probably up on his site as well.

First Annual Alaskan All Mountain Camping Lalapalooza

This turned out to be the best camping spot.  We were really scared at first because we couldn't find a place that seemed to be bear free.  It is also difficult to find a flat location, but Chris spotted this little gem!  The ground was spongy, and he has the coolest tent. It only takes like 3 min. to set up, which is much appreciated.  Afterwords I said how much fun I had, and he said he would just have to work hard to make sure I was always very warm and comfortable because that way I will continue to want to camp with him.  Smart man. 

Mr. Handsome man himself.  We thought this was a place called smugglers cove, but later found it that we were wrong.  Oh well, it was awesome.  

Did I say Mr. Handsome?  I meant, our "special" friend.
AND, his "special" wife. The camera was hanging from a tree in this picture, lucky the wind blew it in our direction at the right time!

 

Arrival in Alaska

The West Mark Inn, or as we call it, Home.
Kind of like Park City or Jackson Hole.
Skagway is on the Lynn Canal in Southeastern AK.  The town is 4 blocks by 12 in the direction that Chris is looking now.

We got here thursday April 30th after flying from Honolulu to Salt Lake then on to Seattle and 

to Juneau. In Juneau we got on a small 10 seater plane and took a 100 mile ride through the 

glacier fields to Skagway. We recognized it from our research on google earth. We have 

photos of the plane ride on Carlies camera that we'll try to post when we find her cord. These

are a few other pictures we took of the town.