Weekend in Hope, Alaska

Actually, weekend was more of an overnight, but we did get to hike two days! We camped in our Chinook along the Resurrection Creek last night and hiked the Resurrection Pass Trail, which we've done several times. I wish we'd get further along the trail, but we went out an hour and a half and turned around and came back. It's such a great spot along the stream, and the hike is a nice graduate uphill but still enough of a hike so that you feel like you did something - about 2 hours, 40 min. total.
Brian wants to come back and bike it, but we tried that once, and I was not stellar - he'll get a lot further without me - and he won't have to listen to me whine either!

We cooked a salmon filet and grilled vegetables for dinner - and we all slept well and were up early with the sun!

We had never done the hike to Hope Pt., and the trail, which was very steep, straight up, when we first moved here was made easier (but still substantial!) with switchbacks in 2012 or 2013 we were told. Kira was not at all thrilled to be hiking two days in a row and made two or three attempts to persuade us to turn around and go in the other direction - but in the end, she hung in there. There are great views of Turnagin Arm, Cook Inlet, and the mountains along the Seward Highway on the way up and from the top - well, we aren't really sure that we got to the top, but we were running out of water for Kira and went 6.4 miles - it said the actual top would have been 7 miles.

Love the different greens! 

 Quick stop here for water and treats for Kira - actually at first I thought this was the top.

 Next time we want to go back to the Palmer Creek Road - we did that with bikes partway and hiking the rest of the way 2 or 3 years ago, and it's a gorgeous drive up into an Arctic valley. with the Chinook we'll be able to drive in further, and we ran into someone who told us about another hike to two lakes - we hiked up to the old mine the last time - every hike we do here is unbelievable, and even the drive there in back is stunning. Another weekend they can never take away from us!