Another great trip!

Summer is starting to wind down up here in Alaska. Fall has officially arrived with the start of hunting season and the colors are changing. I really wish that I was getting ready to jet out of here to some exotic locale with cheap food and incredible climbing, but its not to be this year. I'm staying put for a few months and trying to save money for our trip to Egypt in January. I'm not a very big fan of fall in Alaska, its cold and rainy but not usually cold enough to build a good snowpack in the mountains. Even worse I'm actually looking for a job this fall to help fund our Egyptian adventure. It'll be worth it though to sit on the beach in January.

I've done two more trips since my last post. The first one was a week long trip in Wrangell St Elias from Chisana to Solo Creek. This was a great trip that I did with Mike and Matt. Matt is a ranger in Kennecott. We took our time and even spent a day climbing one of the peaks along the way. We had pretty good weather but it was smoky at times.

Beaver Pk is the one on the left.

Heading up the glacier on Beaver Pk.

Matt high on the summit ridge of Beaver Pk.

Cruising along the trail on high alpine tundra.

The airstrip at Solo Creek where we were picked up.

On my last post I wrote about a river that Nate and I were unable to cross. This is an aerial photo of that river. We flew over it on our way to Chisana. Its about two miles wide and we made it MAYBE a 1/4 of the way across. We'll get it next time!