Wednesday, August 2, 2023: Not Simpson, but Spit! Info: And also with the Odyssey this Homer has nothing to do, if one disregards the fact that it goes on from Homer only by ship (or airplane). “Where the land ends and the sea begins” is the motto of the small town with its 5,500 people….
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Hello from Seward on the Kenai Peninsula
Friday, July 28, 2022: Glaciers, sea lions and whales! Info: Resurrection Bay is a fjord, that is, a narrow bay cut deep into the land by glaciers. The ecosystem of fjords is one of the richest on earth. They exist in only six areas on our planet. The prerequisite is that a glacier cuts a…
Hello from Anchorage and Turnagain Arm
Monday, July 24, 2023: Bright colors in the city, blue in the ice and gold in the creek! Info: Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city with nearly 300,000 people and about 100,000 more in the surrounding area – in total, more than half of Alaska’s population of 736,000. It is equidistant from Tokyo, New York City…
Hello from Denali National Park
Wednesday, July 19, 2023: A peak without a mountain! Info: Denali, which was called Mount McKinley for a while but legally got its name back from President Obama in 2015, is the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 meters. From the base to the summit, it’s 5,500 meters in altitude, making it the highest…
Hello from Top of the World Highway: Dawson (Yukon) – Fairbanks (Alaska)
Thursday, July 13 – Sunday, July 16, 2023: Countless mountains, 8000 rubber ducks and one old bus! Info: From Dawson City, the Top of the World Highway leads to the 1258 m high border crossing into Alaska and on until it joins the Taylor Highway just before the “town” of Jack Wade. From Tok we…
Hello from Klondike Highway: Whitehorse – Dawson City
Thursday, July 6, – Wednesday, July 12, 2023: Why make it simple when you can make it complicated? Info: From Watson Lake, the Alaska Highway took us another 400 km to Whitehorse. Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon Territory and has about 28,000 inhabitants. The urban area of 416 km2 is 2 km2 larger…
Hello from Alaska Highway: Dawson Creek – Watson Lake
Thursday, June 29, 2023, through Wednesday, July 5, 2023: The first thousand kilometers Info: The Alaska Highway, originally called the Alaska-Canada Military Highway or Alcan, begins at Mile 0 in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and heads northwest through the Yukon Territory to Mile 1422 in Delta Junction, Alaska, where it officially ends, and on to…
Hello from Barkerville
Tuesday, June 27, 2023: In search of the gold! Info: Barkerville is a Heritage Village, a kind of open-air museum, on the original site of the Cariboo Gold Rush’s largest gold discoveries. The town was founded in 1862 by Billy Barker, who had found gold at Williams Creek a year earlier. In the mid-1860s, 5000…
Hello from Flowers
Wednesday, June 21, 2023: In search of the names Diary: No, Flowers is not a place … The special thing about the Rocky Mountains are the mountains – of course. But there is more to discover. During my hikes I am always fascinated by the plant life in the valleys or in the alpine tundra….
Hello from Jasper
Thursday, June 22, 2023: Snow, elks and a grizzly Info: Where the Miette River flows into the Athabasca River, at 1062 m above sea level, lies the town of Jasper with not quite 5000 inhabitants. With more than 10,000 km2 Jasper NP is the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and together with…