It must be fall, the Steller's Jays are back.
Time for these beautiful birds to head a bit south, but first a stop along the way for a quick treat. It sure is nice to have my good camera back from the factory service center.
Pretty in Pink.
Oh, what a gorgeous sky tonight.
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Rising above the fog.
One of the benefits to living on the side of the Chugach Mountains is that there are many mornings like this when the Anchorage bowl is smothered in fog while we get to see Denali and the sun.
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Hard rain gonna fall.
Really dramatic back-lit hard rain falling on Bear Valley tonight. This lighting only lasted a couple of minutes. We've had our fair share of rain the past month.
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Back to Denali, aka Biking with Bears.
Just back from another 5 day trip to Denali for our annual Alaskaversary trip which celebrates the weekend good friends from Wisconsin visited 3 years ago and we talked them into moving to Alaska. It's become a tradition to go back on the same weekend.
This trip Devany and I did a lot of mountain biking on the park road. We put the bikes on one of the shuttle buses and get off at the top of a pass, then ride down to the bottom and keep repeating that in both directions in the park. Gravity is our friend. We cover a lot of territory, but also revel in the silence and solitude we get by hopping off the buses.
The benefit to being on the bikes is the ability to sit and watch animals for as long as we want. We sat and watched a sow nurse her twin cubs for almost an hour one afternoon. The potential downside to being on the bikes is that curious bears that happen to be close to the road just might become very interested in you! When this happens twice on the same day you tend to OD a bit on adrenalin.
So come along for another amazing stay in Denali where the weather was incredible this year (last year we had 10 inches of snow) and The Mountain was out each day we were there.
