More Pictures

As time goes on I am getting a little bit better about getting pictures moved online. (baby steps).

So here are some pictures from the 24 day trip in Glacier Bay: PICTURES!

Portland

I'm almost back to MN! I'll be honest, it has been hard to leave Haines. I really loved living in Alaska, its a beautiful place, full of really fun people, and I was working for a fantastic organization. It just doesn't get much better than that. But it was time to go, so I'm back on the road.

I left Haines on Saturday morning and had some great company. One of the students from my last course was going to Vancouver, so she drove with me the last two days. It was interesting for her driving at first being that she is from New Zealand and everytime she had to make a turn she had to think pretty hard about it to make sure that she didn't turn into oncoming traffic!

We decided to take a different road down that I had taken up. We took the Cassiar Highway down from Upper Liard, YT down to Prince George, BC. It ended up being an epic day. The Cassiar is a mountain road that isn't paved all the way through, so we couldn't drive quite as fast as you can on the Alcan. It's beautiful though, and a shorter distance, and we saw 8 blackbears along the side of the road. Trouble was we had a hard time finding a place to sleep that night. Once we got back to a place that actually had hotels everything was full. So we ended up driving until around 1 am until we could find a room.

Sunday we decided to drive down to Vancouver via Whistler. Whistler is a beautiful town and we were both wishing that it would suddenly be winter so we could go skiing. But sadly there was no snow and we drove on. Too bad for us that there was major construction between Whistler and Vancouver, which really slowed things down. So by the time I dropped her off an got across the boarder it was getting late. I didn't get to the pant's place in Portland until close to 1 am.

We spent today playing in Portland and tomorrow morning I am headed toward somewhere in eastern WY. I do love my road trips, but I'm going to be excited to just be in MN and done driving for a while.

Time to sleep to be awake on the road!!!

More Pictures!

So it turns out that one of the students from the last few courses is way better about getting his pictures posted than I am (and he takes better pictures too.) So, I thought I'd go ahead and post a link or two to Henry's pictures for your viewing/procrastinating pleasure.

Glacier Bay

Yukon Territory

Enjoy!

The Last Few Days

Sorry it has taken me forever to get this up.... life here has been nuts-o. I got back in from trip on Tuesday and since then have been de-rigging the last trip as well has having meetings with some of the office staff to finish up the season well and talk about stuff in the future.

This last trip was fabulous. The students had a great time and the scenery on the hiking section was amazingly cool. Then once we hit the water things got rowdy. The Primrose River was in flood, which creates interesting obstacles for us as in there are no eddies (stopping places) to scout the river from.

The part of the Yukon Territory that we were in is in a rain shadow, so this trip was much drier than any of the others have been, which was fabulous.

I uploaded a few pictures from the trip for your viewing pleasure. More to come as I return back to MN. So far the plan is to leave here on Saturday and arrive in MN sometime on Wednesday evening. Can't wait to see everyone back down south!