This post is not really about skiing, this first one deals mostly with the trip in and views mostly from the car. This is a trip I took the initiative too in September of 2013. This was going to be my very first trip to mythical, epic Alaska. For the whole season I couldn't wait for it and two bays before taking off: I get a high fever debilitating flue that I am not sure if its not going to kill it. I figure I have two days till the trip plus two days of traveling to get better so I'll go because not going just does not feel like a viable alternative. This is Valdez we're talking about: heard too much and been anticipating too much and too long to give it up now. So I pop everything I can get my hands on and hope to get better real soon.
The trip from Salt lake to Anchorage, although it's a flight, takes up the most part of a day mainly on account of a longish layover in Seattle. After a day of travel check in to a hotel in Anchorage:
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Taking off from the hotel in Anchorage
for a six hour road trip. |
...and in the am get the car loaded and its off over Richardson HWY to Valdez.
That's a 300 mile drive for a distance as the crow flies of maybe 80 miles, see
below for that efficient route selection:
In any case the group still seems excited half way into the drive.
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| Excitable bunch on the road |
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| Mount Billy Mitchell where the Rendez Vous Heli guides hang out... |
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| Rendez-vous heli guides a bit before Thompson Pass on the way in. |
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| My buddies do a quick late PM tour - It's daylight forever in AK |
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| Off they go... |
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| And here they are somewhere on or around Billy Mitchell |
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| Nice glacier picture taken by Adam |
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| The Bookends |
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| Girls Mountain... |
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...and at the end of the road, Valdez and the plush
accommodations we drove all this way here... |
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