This is the Kennecott mine in Alaska with the first pictures showing the "town" of McCarthy. We found this area by crossing over the Copper River and following a gravel road for 60 miles. Once on the banks of the Kennicott Glacier River,we had to cross over the foot bridge and walk 3/4 mile to McCarthy. Once there we hired a ride in a van to take us the additional 5 miles to Kennecott.
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We drove into Anchorage and headed straight to Costco, can you believe it ?... Filling the cabinets and the refrigerator we drove back to the Palmer area (because we didn't find a campground in Anchorage I liked AND wanted to pay their EXTREMELY high prices ) and spent the night at the Wasilla / Palmer Elks Club ($15with hook ups AND right on the shore of this beautiful lake. I just have to say THANK YOU Bob and Shirley for not only recommending that we join the Elks, but sponsoring us as well...this is one of the many things that Louise and I look back on and say "Thank You" for all the great people we have met through the Elks but also the wonderful campgrounds around the country that we have stayed at in the last 5 years. I posted our stay at the Elks yesterday but I'm going to do it again because it was one of the most beautiful that we have stayed at with only the Elks in Glouchester, Mass. ranking higher in our minds. This early afternoon we decided to leave the Anchorage area and head towards Valdez with many stops in between. One of our stops was to take a short hike (2 miles return) to see the Matanuska Glacier. The width of the ice at the end of the glacier was just over 4 miles wide but about 2 miles distance from us. There was a road that would take us to the glacier but we couldn't find it..so sorry...but maybe next time. A couple things we did find though was a truck that got in front of us at a road construction site and we had to follow for MILES on MILES... the good a out following him was he was filled with trout and arctic char. I decided that it might be kind of cool to see him "stock" a lake so when he pulled off and into a hugh mountain lake, we followed...amazing sight and adventure for us "oldies". We had also read about this high mountain lake called Lake Louise that was found after following a heavily heaving and bumpy road for 17 miles. We were NOT disappointed but we were the only ones there. This lake is AAMAZING with 2 "A's"... Oh hell, give it 3...
We left Fairbanks about 4 heading towards Anchorage. About 8 we pulled off to spend the night at a stste campground. It also has a great view of Denali AND is the location for a GREAT memorial for all the Alaskan World War 2 Vets... it sits about halfway between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Yesterday we continued sightseeing in Fairbanks including a couple hours at the starting point and log house museum for the 1000 mile dog sled races each year.
We have just finish a FULL day here at this AMAZING museum, the University of Alaska Museum of the North...tomorrow, Denali
We finally passed into Alaska only to find about 12 miles of gravel. After a lite lunch we found a trail that would take us about one and a half miles into this beautiful lake (fortunately we didn't see any bears or moose, we were told to be aware as they were plentiful in the area. Then it was on to Fairbanks to catch up on laundry, washing of the truck and camper, and FB
Doing the last of the packing and storing in the truck and camper before heading out to Alaska...got some GOLD up there they're telling me..
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