Mid-August - Trying to do everything before the start of the semester!

Just back from the east coast on July 31st, we had a big agenda for doing things in Alaska before I went back to work for the start of UAA - only partially fulfilled!  Brian and I flew into Denali from Talkeetna on Talkeetna Air Taxi - present from Scott, Alex and Colleen for Christmas, and something we tried to do in the spring, but the weather didn't cooperate.  It did on this day, and we had a memorable trip flying around the southern side of the mountain!

It turned out that our pilot WAS the one we'd read about in the newspaper the day before who had to abort a flight and land right on the highway!  Raised our confidence . . . what were the chances he'd have to do that two days in a row?!

Brian and Carl took a long boat trip from Whittier to Cordova and were gone 4 or 5 days - they picked up Carl's brother-in-law and were able to catch both halibut and salmon on the way.  We have our freezer (the one on the refrigerator is the only one we have) packed entirely with salmon, halibut and shrimp - nothing else, not even ice!