Archive for the ‘Susitna Valley’ Category
Friday, March 28th, 2008
March 28: Three years ago, Linda and I skied and camped on the Curry Ridge Rider trails near Trapper Creek. Ever since then, I have wondered if it would be possible to ski a big loop up and around the Tokositna River using those trails. When I recently read that the CRR had just finished creating such a loop, I couldn’t wait to ski it. Tim Kelley also has some good pictures of this trip (and many, many others).
Tags: benji, chulitna, curry, peters, tim, tokositna, trapper
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
June 18: Linda and I have really been hitting the packrafting hard this summer. They really are the coolest things ever. With snow still in the montains, we’ve been doing a few short, road-accessible creeks to practice our skills. Still can’t figure out how to snap photos in the rafts without soaking the camera, so all I can show you are the maps.
Tags: bill, linda, lyons, red gate, scott, turnagain, willow
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
April 1: After a few days of crust, the overnight temperatures this weekend warmed up and the skies threatened rain and snow. So instead of crust skiing, I headed north to the Willow multi-use trails.
Tags: susitna, willow
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
On Saturday, April 9, Scott and I went searching for crust. I did a recon mission south of Anchorage yesterday and found no crust, so this time we headed north to Willow and the Hatcher Pass road.
Tags: hatcher, peters, purches, scott, willow
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
On March 26, we loaded up a sled with our winter camping gear and headed out for an overnight on the snowmobile trails near Trapper Creek.
Tags: curry, east-west express, linda, peters, reflector, trapper
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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
March 18-20th, 2005 we headed north to Talkeenta for more snow and the Oosik Classic ski race
Tags: chulitna, oosik, talkeetna, trapper
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
On February 19th, I tackled the Susitna 100, a 100 mile race through the frozen Alaskan wilderness. When I first heard about this race, shortly after moving to Alaska, I knew I had to do it. I love races like this.
My write-up of the Susitna 100 on FasterSkier.com
2005 Su 100 Results
ADN article on the Su 100
ADN Interview With Tim Kelley (not about the race)
More photos from the race
Tags: flathorn, susitna, tim
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Saturday, July 17th, 2004
On July 17, we headed north to the Little Susitna River and the Nancy Lakes Recreation Area for a weekend of canoeing.
Tags: linda, little su, lynx, nancy, susitna
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Saturday, April 10th, 2004
On Saturday April 10, Scott, Martin and I headed to Hatcher Pass in search of some crust skiing. The crust was a bit spotty, but the snowmobile trail was in great shape for skiing.
Tags: hatcher, snowmobile, willow
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Monday, April 5th, 2004
April 3 & 4, we went to Sheep Mountain Lodge for the Oosik Classic Ski Race. The race itself was hectic - we drove up the morning of because I was sick the day before. So we didn’t get many pictures of the race, but we took plenty the next day to make up for it.
Tags: linda, majestic, mike, oosik, sheep, tanja
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