New Shrimp, April in Prince William Sound, & . . . More Hiking!

There is always this question about whether we'll have "enough" shrimp to make it through the winter - they are SO good, you don't want to run out.  And then all of a sudden it's April, and there is more shrimp coming in the door!  What a good problem to have!  Brian snapped a few pictures of one of the first trips out with Carl Roberts on the boat we share, Kakwik.

What a day!  What a place!  Now I really mind that I was working!
On beautiful days like this on the weekend, I really want to be up in the mountains!

This last one, we hiked the Falls Creek Trail along Turnagain Arm on Saturday, a fairly steep hike right from the start and consistent snow on the ground about halfway up.  The Falls Creek Trail meets up with the Rabbit Creek Trail on the other side of the ridge and is another approach to South Suicide Peak, which we haven't done yet.  Lance went with us on this hike, and we now can't find the pictures on the computer that Brian thought he downloaded - too bad, they were good ones!  You're very quickly above treeline and looking down over Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm, and we saw sheep up on the sunny cliffs.  In the other direction, you're headed into a deep valley with beautiful mountain views, and South Suicide Peak really stands out.

On Sunday, we climbed from the top of Basher Road - from a high point, you immediately go down, evidently so that you can climb back up again and then have an agonizing climb again at the very end!  (Bad design!) This climb is not as out in the open, and you're not above treeline for about the first hour - at least at the rate that I climb!  And, two hours is about what we had, so by the time we popped out, we didn't have the time to go further along the ridge and up to "The Dome" as it is called or onto another peak.  And it was a mud bog!!  Much laundry when we got home.  Although these pictures don't do it justice, once you're on top, you can see out over the inlet and also off to Denali in the distance - plus you're looking at the backside of Wolverine and a series of peaks on the other side. I wonder what we'll do NEXT weekend?!