Alaska Summer
Alaska Field Notes · Inside Passage
Alaska · The Great Land
Inside Passage Adventures · Being There
Field Note 01 · Recollection
Powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility.
Alaska is the perfect setting for those poetic reflections to come out and those bitter sweet moments of seemingly endless waitings—But delay is not denial! I remember...
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”Opening reflection
Field Note 02 · Route
The Inside Passage
From Seattle through the pristine wilderness of Southeast Alaska. The original route markers are preserved here as a dependency-free field sequence for more reliable Blogger rendering.
Seattle, Washington
Gateway to Alaska - 'The Flannel Manner' departure point
Vancouver, BC
Canadian gateway to the Inside Passage
Ketchikan, Alaska
First taste of Alaska - 'A River Runs Through It' & salmon capital
Misty Fjords National Monument
Wings Over Misty Fjords - Nature's living mirror
Tracy Arm Fjord
Vivid Blues - Inside Passage glacial spectacle
Juneau, Alaska
Alaska's capital - 'The Wild Gospel of Nature' & Enlightened Land
Glacier Bay National Park
WWJM(John Muir) Do? - Where glaciers meet the sea
Skagway, Alaska
Gold Rush history - 'After The Goldrush' & Chilkoot Trail
Tongass National Forest
No Rain, No Rainbow Falls - America's largest national forest
Visual Field Notes · Click to Enlarge
Alaska Wilderness Gallery
Glaciers, fjords, wildlife, ships and weather. Each image opens larger in a new tab; the magnifier cue is drawn in CSS so Blogger has no Unicode icon to corrupt.
Glacier Bay - Where glaciers meet the sea in spectacular fashion
Alaska Wildlife - Where eagles soar and salmon run
"I knew there would be days like this, I just wish someone would have told me how many!"
Towering peaks meet pristine waters in the Inside Passage
Cruise ships navigate the legendary Inside Passage
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe videos. Nature's living mirror, however is water—whether still or in motion. The most beautiful landscapes go better with H2OooooooohMG!
The Happy go Locals don't tan, they rust, and if they smoke, they smoke salmon. The cruisers who inhabit this place for 6 hours a day may have come on different ships, but they are all in the same boat—Mother Nature's.
Video Dispatches
Top 5 Alaska Videos
Five moving field notes from the source archive, rebuilt into a responsive 16:9 presentation that holds on mobile without cropping the player.
Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.John Muir
Companion Stories
Follow the Golden Thread
Four doors back into the Alaska archive—selected from the links already present in the source.
Master Archive
Alaska Travel Blog Entries
The full July and August 2012 archive remains intact. Open a month to browse the original field notes.
August 2012 · 15 Posts
The Elixir · Return With Awe
The Great Land Calls
The Great Land is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers. From Float Plane Riding to Salmon Fishing, surrounded by waterfalls and glaciers—this is The Wild Life.
“Wow What a Summer... BUT I remember 2011, 2012 Alaska seasons. Alaska always delivers.”