glaciers everywhere...

fo found out tiva was part mountain gaotas well. she scaled a few cliffs with to much ease.

this is why i hike, to get to places like this !!!!

up and over

getting away!!!!!!!!

i should look tired but i'm not, i just got here 9.7 miles back!!!!

look who's standing right in my way.... i need to go in that direction.

got to climb that...........

sometimes you just got to go... this was almost a 20 mile hike. easily a half day just to get here. but one of the best places i've found to be alone and just think. i'm glad i went!!!!!! this is a place called raven glacier. alpine forest all the way up, untill you get above the tree line. this is deffinately not a place for people who don't know what they're doing. need a good compass and map. out here there's no satelite singnals so a g.p.s. is useless! i'm having to climb up and down this mountain goarge to get to where i was going. the mountains block off everything. i got very lucky because the weather never turned bad. out here the mountains make there own weather, so it's not uncomon for a bad rain storm and wind to kick in. this is a place i found about a 2 hour drive away. just to turn onto a dirt road that ends in the middle of nowhere and turns into a dried creek bed. now you've got to hike if you want to go on.

you never know what you'll run into.......

caribu in the distance.

i'm glad the bears had no interest in us !!!!!!!

i think my dog is completely nuts! she weighs a wopping 40 pounds but when she see's a bear i swear she's a different dog. she goes nuts. it was a good thing i had her on a leash. and it's a good thing they were interest playing rather then with us. thet were about 25 feet from us.

rewards to seeing whats over the other side..

the rewards

this view is awsome and now i see a little lake i have to go check out. i'm already this far.

i'm here about 1200 in evevation...

ti

tiva not very happy to have her pic taken, she wanted to play but it was to dangerous there were cliffs.

you can see prince william sound to my left and exit glacier to my right....

goig up !!!!

i' at about 700 feet in elevation here and the temp. is still nice. a little windy though. from here at this elevation you can see prince william sound.

snow, great! all i can think is i got to go over that ridge an i don't know how stable the snow is. i was worried i'd start an avalanche. i was carefull and risked it. i just stayed towards the edge. but up that ridge and over the other side was where i was wanting to go....

lost for words....

• this is pretty much starting off to byron glacier. tiva can already smell soming.. she was goin
  

you really don't know what true peace and quite is untill you find places like this. i'd say it was about 7 miles one way. not bad terrain though. as you'll see in some pic's i was worried about walking across and starting an avalanche.

yesturday was probably the best day we've had here in a long time. and to make a long story short i got out of work early and decided to just go hiking! somewhere, anywhere, my only thing was i wanted somewhere new to explore. i've explored alot of alaska, but for some reason yesturday was one of them really rare days when you go someplace nobody else probably has because it's next to impossible to get there. that is unless you're willing to hike! my first plan was to only hike the byron glacier, but when i got there things changed. i had excellent weather the whole time. which up here in alaska is extremely rare. exspecially where i was going. these mountains create they're own weather pattern. but anyhow the weather was to perfect to stay in!!!!

now i took alot of pictures and i'm not computer wiz, so i'll do my best to put them up and explain. to be breif. i started my hike at the byron glacier, inside chugiak national park. not really a place someone should be if they're not ready for what ever or if they don't know what they're doing. where i'm going is a place like people disapear when they don't have a clue. so it's important to know a little something before heading out to these places. anything could happen and they're would be nobody arround to help. you're basicly screwed. but as you will see the rewards are worth it, to me anyhow. i don't want to see it in national geographic, hell i want to be there myself. you know what i mean. so these pics. are of me and tiva exploring up in the mountains, about 1200 feet up in elevation. i seen bears and caribu. tiva was going nuts i had to put her on her leash. she was a little to brave with 2 big brown bears we ran into down into this vally i was going to to check out this lake. so i guess they found it first! but anyhow they were only about 20 feet from us. thank god they were to interested in playing. and plus i think tiva scared them off. it's hard to believe my 40 pound dog scared them. this dog is affraid of her own shaddow. but anyhow. enjoy the pics. and when i go back to that lake camping i found i'll take more pics.

more pic of mt. mckinnley..

very wet and dirty. this is the gate we have go under to find our trail 2 miles away.

troblesome creek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rainy hike arround troublesome creek in Denali Park....

troublesome creek.....

mt. mckinnley

snow and hail about 35 degrees

we made it, troublesome creek where he died. the current and cold did him in...

we wanted to get out of anchorage for the day and was heading for a place called hatchers pass. it's just a bunch of old gold mines there now, but alot of locals up here snow board there. but anyhow, the road was closed do to avalanche danger so we couldn't go. we would of tried but there was to many police arround. so we decided to just drive a little further to denali park, mt. mckinnley. ( the largest mountain in north america. 104 people have died in this park in the past 2 years. very dangerous place to be roaming arround if you don't know what your doing. but anyhow, some frinds and i have hiked this park from all angels and we're pretty comfortable there heading out and about. we wanted to hike troublesome creek. this creek creates it's own weather pattern because mt. mckinnley feeds it. so what happens up there will take only minutes to get to us. as you can see by the pics over the creek. you can see where it floods almost every day. but anyhow we risked our lives and made it before the rain storm that moved it turned our day very wrong!!! sorry mom!!! it was raining. snowing, hailing, ect. so of coarse my batteries died in my camera and this is all i got for pics. so all we could do is build a fire, make shelter and lay low for a while. it only lasted about 2 hours though. good thing the sun doesn't go down really this time of year. but to top it all off i almost got seriously screwed by the park ranger for drivng off the road a little bit when we were leaving. denali park is very protected! and it should be! but anyhow, i moved a boulder so we could get the truck closer to the river head. the park ranger just made me move the truck and place this big rock back. aparently he knew moving that boulder was more then enough punishment. i won't do that again..........