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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Day 54B - Chitina - August 22, 2011

Up and at 'em, the Brittons pulled out of Valdez at 10:14 headed for Chitina.  We were blessed with another nice partly sunny day.  The scenery along the way was again magnificent.


We tried to figure out the name of this glacier but couldn't.  There are so many glaciers, maybe they ran out of names?  We named it the "Heidi Glacier" in honor of her absence.

We made the turn off the Richardson Highway, east towards Chitina on the Edgerton Highway.  I guess if it's paved they call it a highway.

  About 15 miles down the road we found this Yak farm.  Musk Ox and Yaks in Alaska, who'd guessed?

        Well, now that we've seen Yaks, we checked Tibet off our bucket list.  Why else go to Tibet?

We continued into Chitina and got some good advice from US Forest Ranger Earl whose headquarters is this oldest building in Chitnia.

We checked out the Copper River where Native Americans were tending fish wheels catching the last of the Red Salmon run.

There was also a backhoe there loading a drop bucket with gravel that this helicopter was using to ferry gravel to some remote location.

Based on Ranger Earl's recommendation, Pam raced ahead with the car to Liberty Falls State Park to secure one of three spots that would hold our rig.  She beat out some other campers with tents by mere seconds for the premiere spot.


                                       We shoehorned the motorhome into this incredible site,

                                         poured a glass of Chardonnay and enjoyed the view.

                                                          Put a bottle in the river to chill

                                                    grilled some pork chops and started a fire.

                                            We enjoyed our fine meal at the foot of the falls

                                                          retrieved the wine and enjoyed the fire.

                                                      We'll do the dishes tomorrow.  Maybe.




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