Our 2009 summer guiding season went well and is not quite finished.
Besides our standard trips into Katmai National Park, Bill and I spent a lot of time paddling Prince William Sound out of Valdez on our own in May and June. We also rafted the Copper River with friends in June. After another trip on the Savonovski Loop in Katmai National Park, we are off to Wood Tikchik State Park where we will be kayaking about 120 miles from Lake Kulik through 5 lakes connected by 4 rivers to Dillingham. This is an amazing place in the Bristol Bay area which we want to check out firsthand.
Then we are off to Florida for a 300 mile kayak trip on the Suwannee River and the Big Bend Saltwater paddling trail in the Golf of Mexico, trip report will follow on my other blog.
Here are some of our images on Google Picasa from this summer and other adventures.
Alaska Adventures and Guided Trips Alaska
Kathi & Bill Merchant
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
2008 Summer Season
After a summer full of adventures I have some time to sort through my pictures.
Most of the summer in Southcentral Alaska was rainy with cool temperatures. We got lucky and had a sunny August in the Southwest in Katmai National Park and in the Arctic. Fall was spectacular with all its colors.
Winter is finally on its way, we have some of the first snowflakes of the season here in Chickaloon.
We are heading to Florida for a month and plan on paddling the 99 mile Wilderness Waterway in the Everglades National Park.
Here are some of my best pictures I have picked out of the hundreds I took this summer.
Most of the summer in Southcentral Alaska was rainy with cool temperatures. We got lucky and had a sunny August in the Southwest in Katmai National Park and in the Arctic. Fall was spectacular with all its colors.
Winter is finally on its way, we have some of the first snowflakes of the season here in Chickaloon.
We are heading to Florida for a month and plan on paddling the 99 mile Wilderness Waterway in the Everglades National Park.
Here are some of my best pictures I have picked out of the hundreds I took this summer.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Alaska Ultra Sport
We organize summer and winter adventures throughout Alaska.
In February we organize the world's longest human powered ultra marathon on the historic Iditarod Trail. On this blog you will also find trip reports on Bill and Kathi's adventures throughout the year.
Our last trip was a 1000 mile training ride from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tucson, Arizona where we followed a route I put together with Scott Morris' Topofusion GPS program. We were on fantastic singletrails, remote ranch roads, forest roads and a bit of pavement, spending most nights in our one person tent and got a room once a week when we went through a town. You can see our pictures on the links list to Google Picasa.
We started on September 13 and were just ahead of the first snow above Salt Lake.
We covered 85 remote miles through the Escalante National Monument on Smoky Mountain Road and 80 miles on Skyline Drive on the Wasatch Plateau where we stayed above 10,000 feet for 50 miles until we dropped into Salina Canyon.There was a series of beautiful singletrack trails to the Grand Canyon. We got a shuttle from the North Rim to the South Rim and continued on the Arizona Trail to Tucson. We enjoyed the transition from the red and yellow fall colours in Utah to the pine forests in northern Arizona to the Sonoran Desert with all its variety of cactus. Temperatures were as low as 28 F degrees on morning on the Wasatch Plateau to 97 the day we arrived in Tucson.
Water was scarce in places this time of the year, so most of the time we carried two days water about 18 Liters. One of the highlights was an Elk bugling and stomping right in camp at night.
Happy Trails.
Kathi
In February we organize the world's longest human powered ultra marathon on the historic Iditarod Trail. On this blog you will also find trip reports on Bill and Kathi's adventures throughout the year.
Our last trip was a 1000 mile training ride from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tucson, Arizona where we followed a route I put together with Scott Morris' Topofusion GPS program. We were on fantastic singletrails, remote ranch roads, forest roads and a bit of pavement, spending most nights in our one person tent and got a room once a week when we went through a town. You can see our pictures on the links list to Google Picasa.
We started on September 13 and were just ahead of the first snow above Salt Lake.
We covered 85 remote miles through the Escalante National Monument on Smoky Mountain Road and 80 miles on Skyline Drive on the Wasatch Plateau where we stayed above 10,000 feet for 50 miles until we dropped into Salina Canyon.There was a series of beautiful singletrack trails to the Grand Canyon. We got a shuttle from the North Rim to the South Rim and continued on the Arizona Trail to Tucson. We enjoyed the transition from the red and yellow fall colours in Utah to the pine forests in northern Arizona to the Sonoran Desert with all its variety of cactus. Temperatures were as low as 28 F degrees on morning on the Wasatch Plateau to 97 the day we arrived in Tucson.
Water was scarce in places this time of the year, so most of the time we carried two days water about 18 Liters. One of the highlights was an Elk bugling and stomping right in camp at night.
Happy Trails.
Kathi
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