PICTURES POSTED!!!!!!!!!

Got some pictures posted. Check out the link on the right side of the screen. I havent had time to label them but in a nutshell, the glacier pictures from the ground and from the air are in the Kennecott/ McCarthy area as well as the sunset pictures. The sunset pix are from the Bear-B-Q that the town was having that night that I went to. Bear meat and salmon and meeting the locals. It was great. Not to mention spectacular sunset. There are harbour pictures of Valdez as well as the taiga pictures from my tent in Denali- those are the ones with the rolling green hills. Sooo cool. Hope you enjoy them.
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The Chicken is Burnt

Im in Denali Park now. All I can say is BREATHTAKING. The two places I have to come back to visit on my own are Denali and McCarthy/ Kennecott. We are camped in a semi-wilderness spot 15miles into the park. There is nothing around my tent but taiga and a few trees. I cant see any other tents from mine. It is soo nice.
My schedule has changed and will no longer be coming back to Victoria at the end of this trip. Instead Im keeping this van and driving to Anchorage to start my trip. Ill have 5 days off in Aug in Anchorage now and will be able to meet up with one of the other guides for a camping trip or some free time. Right now Chicken AK is on fire and we are having to change the routing of our trip to accomadate the closed road into Dawson City from the AK border. Weather is great.... still hoping to post some phoitos soon!

A few minutes in Anchorage

So we took the ferry from Valdez to Whittier which was really nice. Got to see the glaciers and dodge the icebergs on our trip up. Drove up to Seward and spent our first full day there on a cruise. The first ship we got on blew 1 of the 2 engines about 2 hours out so we had to limp back and take a larger vessel. It was cool. Saw orcas and humpbacks as well as some porpises that played in our wake. Got really close to an icefield and got to see the glacier calve- which is when a chunk of the ice falls off into the water to form a berg. Got some video on the camera of that. I will hopefully be able to stop by Best Buy here to see Mitch and see if he can convert my flash card from my camera to CD ROM. Id love to get some of my 200 pictures i have posted online.
I took the group for a hike yesterday but halfway up this mountain, one of the women said she would have to turn back coz it was too steep for here (lotsa switchbacks, maybe 1000m elevation gain in 6k!) coz there was lots of grizzly activity in the area, I had to go with her. I let the group go on and walked her down, then I turned around and ran up the trail to meet the rest of the group. As I met them they were on their way down already, I ate my lunch and ran back down to meet them. This job sure willl keep me in shape! Maybe even moreso than construction (I can't slack off here, Co!)
I should have regular net access in Denali when I am there so I hope to upodate you with pictures then.
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