Alright I guess I'll begin with hiking Mount Juneau in my underwear and nothing else. Its been incredibly hot up here in Alaska. Last weekend we broke record when it reached 85 in Juneau. So anyways a bunch of us hiked Mount Juneau and I started out with pants and a poly pro shirt. I had a pretty bad head cold so I was already having issues. When we left tree line I took off the pants and shirt and went straight up!

The next week I headed out to Admiralty Island, The Fortress of Bears. It has the highest concentration of brown bears in the world. We went out there to rebuild the tracks for the kayak tram. It looks like an old railway car on a small track. You load up your kayak or canoe and hike it in a mile and unload at the next part of your journey. We stayed out in a cabin in Oliver Inlet while we were there. We only saw one bear, a few deer, and we nursed a baby bird back to health. It was a really cool back country experience.

When I got back, Carrie and I hiked Mount Jumbo together. We were about 40 minutes from the top when we decided to turn around. There was this really cool meadow between all the snow that we shared a beer together in. It was pretty sketchy getting to the top and pretty windy so we turned around. On the way down, I slid on my butt through the snow. It was so much fun!

That night I walked back from the bar at sunrise, 3:30 am. It was a gorgeous sunrise. In the morning a bunch of us hiked Mount Juneau again. This time I summitted it and then we hiked along the ridge line for a few peaks and could see the Taku Valley and some of the Juneau Ice fields. The view was incredible. We slid down on our butts down to Granite Creek Trail in Yankee Basin and hiked out. The slid down was so awesome! I want to do it all day everyday. I said eat your heart out Wet N Wild! I'm sliding down a mountain!

The end of a trilogy

So its the perfect end to my trilogy. When I first came up to Alaska in 2011, I stayed in Mendenhall Campground for the night. The next morning Kevin and a few other crew leaders picked me up. After I filled out my exit paperwork, Kevin drove me away from the shop. That night I stayed in Mendenhall Campground. That's the way a trilogy should end, making that perfect circle back to the begining. My time with SAGA is over and since I've made that circle, I shouldn't try to make a fourth.

That weekend I went to Brewfest in Haines. The first night I stayed at Portage Cove again. In the morning I packed things down and went over to Carrie's spot and set up next to her. We went for an uneventful hike instead of running the five k. Then we tackled brewfest. On the way back, I got separated from my group and met some interesting characters before being scooped up by the youth core leaders. I went back to their camp for a while. This year I got a hand massage from a chick. If you didn't hear last year I had gotten a hand massage from a gay guy. I went back to my tent and slept until 3 am and saw an amazing sunset? sunrise?

Monday I started at Trailmix. Our current project is making Outerpoint trail wheel chair accessible. That week was gorgeous. A couple times we got to ride the tram up Mt. Roberts to do some work up there. That weekend I helped Carrie clean fiddle head ferns for pickling and hitch hiked for 4 hours. This past week I was a little under the weather so not a whole lot happening.