Lost Lake and laughter

Last weekend, I headed out with a group of fabulous women to run the absolutely stunning 17-mile Lost Lake trail. It was my virgin crossing, and I finally understood why all the rave. When you get up to the pass, it opens up into this expansive rolling alpine tundra, dotted by lakes and flanked by glaciers. The overcast sky showed us some mercy, and stopped raining long enough for us to make the trip. We ended our excursion with burritos, and then coffee in Seward. The best part of the day? Laughing! With such a fun group of ladies, there were times when I was literally crying because I was laughing so hard.





Here's the link to see the Lost Lake photos individually in a Web album.

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Mount Marathon

For the Fourh of July Joshua and I headed down to Seward to cover Mount Marathon -- an annual race up and down a mountain famed for it's mud, scree and steep chutes. (The top finishers always end up bloody.) Joshua filmed for Channel 2 and I shot photos for the Alaska Star. This meant hauling a hell of a lot of gear over slick mud and up melting snow. In addition to the clothes and food needed to spend the day on the side of a mountain, between us we had a huge broadcast camera, a Nikon D200 and a few lenses. Here's some of the better photos from the day.

Joshua

Women's race (one of Joshua's photos, he took a few stills when not filming with the broadcast camera)

This was my best photo

View of Seward from the side of the mountain

Eagle Riverite decked out in Fourth of July running clothes

One of Joshua's photos

More of Joshua

Joshua filming Cedar, the hometown gal who has won the race for the last several years

If you click on the photo and look close, you can see each individual water droplet

A weekend in Seward

Keith came to visit Joshua and I in the middle of June. We drove down to Seward for the weekend... visited Exit Glacier, saw sea otters and sea lions, camped in the yard of Anabell's cabin, watched loads of halibut being wheeled off the dock and generally enjoyed the weekend.

Lake on the way to Seward

Sea lion who hung around the docks, getting big and fat from all the halibut leftovers. (The fishermen clean and fillet the halibut at a station on the docks).

Keith and Joshua

A sea otter

Alaska license plate
More of the sea lion
Take three of the sea lion
Joshua
Joshua and Anabell in Anabell's cabin
A corner of Exit Glacier. We hiked the moraine up the side of it for a ways.
View of the water from Seward
Boat in the harbor
A fisherman wheeling the bucket back to the boat for more fish.
A super nice lady and expert fish filleter, who makes part of her living filleting to fish that tourists catch when the hire a charter for the day.
Yum. Fresh-caught halibut.
Joshua "leaning" up against the van we borrowed from friends for the weekend.