Tuesday, July 04, 2006

kesugi ridge

we had an awesome 3 day backpack along kesugi ridge this weekend. probably one of the most popular hikes in alaska - the trail is 30 years old this year (so we were told by the overly friendly woman that took this photo for us) and cuts through some dense forest up to a ridge where you have miles and miles to view denali, and some really unique and funky geology. just the 5 of us, 6 dogs, and 57 nanogizillion mosquitos (or so we estimated).... amazingly all the dogs made it into this final group photo just before we descended down to byers lake. we all hiked 27 miles, a few of the dogs likely did 75+ miles since they had to detour for every single marmot living within 5 miles of the trail.
pretty ominious clouds on day 1, but we never got even a drop of rain.

view from the tent day one. Posted by Picasa

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