Hiking and Biking - The Weather's Been Great!

It's been our perfect idea of weather here in Anchorage - 60-65 degrees, cooler at night, sunny most days. Last weekend we had intended to go out in the Chinook at least overnight, but we got waylaid with "cleanup" in a number of ways - including selling our 1994 Winnie Minnie and deciding to keep our 1977 18Plus Chinook. I put the ad on Facebook Marketplace at 9 o'clock at night, and it was sold at 9 am the next morning! So what we did instead:

Just before the weekend, we'd been meaning to climb Flattop - it's that early season test to see how out of shape we are! And it turned out to be not too bad! Very popular hike here in Anchorage, and easier now to do from the recommended "backside" where new switchbacks have been constructed (off Canyon Red.) We met a couple at the top - and found out that she is from Buffalo, NY - not too far from where we lived in upstate New York. They've been hiking in the Adirondacks too, where we climbed the 46 high peaks over time!

And then Sunday, a hike TOWARDS Rabbit Lake - we didn't go all of the way. Kira was very excited to see how much snow was still there on the trail - and it's still a beautiful hike and a beautiful day.

Biking has been perfect this spring, but we always have to keep a lookout for the moose on the trail!
We ran into this one over on the Campbell Creek trail and waited patiently until he moved in his own time to the other side of the bike trail and was at least facing the other way. We had company - there were 5 of us by the time he moved! The picture of Brian biking with Kira is from earlier this spring, but she was in the bugger with us when we ran across the moose so I included it!