Life of a Single Married Lady

We've been on a few hikes since I last updated, so here are some fun pictures! We first went to Power Creek, which is a trail that starts near the river that provides some of Cordova's power. That's where we saw our bear (!!!), and there are even more salmon swimming upstream now! We also saw some big bear and moose prints, although no bear or moose themselves. Hands for scale. (Remember you can click on the images to enlarge them.) Salmon swimming upriver, and Kayla's and Wil's hands showing us the size of these prints We also went to Sheridan glacier, which I went to back in October 2013. If you'd like to compare, here's a link  to the old blog post with pictures of the glacier. The ice field has diminished a bit, but we were still able to climb on to the glacier, play in the mud, and throw rocks down into the big holes and crevasses that have formed by melting. The non-glacier pictures below are from our Power Creek hike; it was just so pretty!! ...

Happy Independence Day, dear readers!  As for the Midwesterners, congratulations on making it this far with all the storms with which you have been plagued.  I wish you a long dry spell and no more home damage. Last weekend, Wil, Kayla, Zach, and I went for our midnight hike--because why not, when you have 21 hours of sunlight every day?  We climbed about 45 minutes up Cordova's aptly named Ski Hill and arrived a few minutes before midnight.  Official sunset was about 1:15am, which was about the time we reached the bottom of the hill again...and even then it wasn't all that dark :)  Besides the fairly typical hordes of mutant mosquitoes, it was so beautiful!  We could see out to the Sound and the Gulf of Alaksa, as well as the numerous mountain ranges all around us.   View of the Sound, Gulf of Alaska is visible on the left   View of the mountains from Ski Hill at midnight More recently Wil's AmeriCorps supervisor visited from Jun...