Chistochina Bed and Breakfast Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... br><br>On arrival at Tangle Lakes we set up camp and were attacked by gnats. Just very annoying. We had a nice evening around the camp fire having S'Mores (crackers with toasted marshmallow and chocolate, yum) and even more yum Ramon's Burnt Rum!<br><br>The next day we were off to Valdez!

... Nebesna Road..<br> We set out on the 40 mile road, of which only the first 4 miles are paved. The first of the stream fords does not occur until mile 29. Due to snowmelt and /or glacial runoff, stream fords can get much deeper as the day progresses. Well, we did see the beaver lodge, but no other wildlife. The clouds parted a little, but we did not get really good views of the mountains. The drive was an ...

... br><br>We were out on the glacier for about 2 ¼ hours. Just as we were heading back the rain let up and the clouds broke a little. We could finally see the Root Glacier Ice Fall, near the head of the glacier. This is a couple of thousand feet of near vertical ice. In other words, a "water" fall in this river of ice. <br><br>It was 3:00 by the time we returned to the guide office. Nathan drove us back to ...

The morning tour to the ice museum began at 9. It's so cold inside! 20 F, so even with glove, scarf, everything, twenty minutes' still too long. But it's extraordinary. It's dark inside to prevent the ice from melting. So the pictures are not clear. <br><br>AFTER the arctic ocean mission, the trip resembled more ...

... iceflows and glaciers. You can imagine that the iceflows in this area have been moving... carving valleys, moving earth... living and breathing in a sense... cracking and creaking and breaking... and of course very slowly flowing forwards and retreating backwards for thousands and thousands of years. I think these glaciers are some of the more special ones in the world... they're not necessarily any more beautiful than those that form on the fringes of ...

... visitor centers today and the grocery store. Since we are going to stay in one place I am going to make homemade egg noodles and have beef and noodles. Sorry Dylan will have to make them without you this time. This campground has a stew or chili dinner each night (chili from reindeer meat). I hope it isn't Rudolph and a breakfast all you can eat sourdough pancakes etc. So we will be eating out tonight and in the ...

... ABOVE the Arctic Circle. The area below is surprisingly lush and beautiful, miles and miles of unobstructed Nature. You can drive past glaciers as though they were just another roadside attraction, and see the occasional moose or bear making poo-poo along the roadway. Does a bear **** in the woods? In fact the area around Anchorage is really more ...

... bucket to see his first snow (see photo). He was frightened at first but warmed up just like he did at the beach. We saw a range of temps today from 41 at the top of the Chilkat to 74 here in Tok. On the pass, the Canadians customs dude was a grumpy cuss. I think he was upset because he was enormously fat and had to live at the top of a snowy pass, all by himself. He asked me more questions than I've been asked ...

... Captain Cook in the 1770s reminded me on more than one occasion of New Zealand, albeit with gasoline-sniffing natives and bears instead of tattooed dancing Maoris and sheep. If I didn't have friends up here I probably wouldn't even know where it would be on the map (which from a tourist perspective is just as well because I don't think they need any more old people up here in summer falling out of cruise ships and commenting on how it's so much warmer ...