FLATTOP MOUNTAIN HIKE PHOTOS - Anchorage Alaska
Flattop Mountain is located in Anchorage Alaska. Probably the most popular hike in Alaska. I've been close to the peak of Flattop before but today was the first time of making it all the way to the top. Near the top I was literally climbing on all fours and not trying to look at the shear dropoff.
Transfer Anchorage Hotel to Whittier with Scenic Tour - Anchorage, Alaska
Begin your transfer tour with a pick-up at your downtown hotel at 10 am. Complimentary beverages and snacks are provided for your comfort. During our scenic drive down Turnagain Arm, your guide will point out possible wildlife like sheep, mountain goats, beluga whales, and eagles. We'll make a photo stop at the famous Beluga Point for some beautiful views and a great backdrop for stunning photography!
Next, we'll visit the quaint town of Girdwood for the aerial tram ride up the longest double black diamond ski slope in North America. From the top you can view several glaciers and the farthest northern reaches of a temperate rainforest that stretches from here all the way south to Northern California. On select days our guests visit the Roundhouse Museum. This museum is perched on the mountainside and surrounded with a panoramic viewing deck for your viewing pleasure.
Then we'll visit our favorite Girdwood bake shop for lunch (included) and bottomless homemade soup, sourdough bread, beverages, and dessert. Next, visit the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, located on 140 acres at the southern edge of Turnagain Arm. The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center provides wildlife education and awareness, and care and rehabilitation for Alaska's wildlife. Get close, safely observe and photograph some of Alaska's largest land animals, including moose, bison, elk, deer, caribou, bears, and musk ox. Our guests also enjoy seeing small mammals like lynx, and stunning birds of prey, such bald and golden eagles.
Then we'll explore Portage Valley. Several Alpine glaciers can be seen here and, depending on the season, you may be able to view salmon spawning in one of the small creeks! Finally, enjoy a ride through the 2.5 mile Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest one-way train and vehicle tunnel in North America. We'll arrive in Whittier at approximately 3:30 pm and transfer you directly to your cruise ship. Have plans to stay at a Whittier hotel? We'll be glad to drop you off at the hotel of your choice.
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Don't miss the cute arctic ground squirrel at the beginning of this video, the mama grizzly bear and her 2 cubs @ 9:06, the cute little short-tailed weasel @ 29:01, salmon leaping up Bear Creek Weir @ 31:12, our catching HUGE silver salmon in the Lower Kenai River @ 39:35, and the 3 jumbo jets landing a mere 200 feet above my head at Anchorage International Airport @ 51:59! Enjoy! :-)
0:00 Arctic ground squirrel on the Savage Alpine Trail in Denali National Park (DNP)
0:27 Ranger Riley narrates a sled dog demo at DNP
5:20 Shuttle bus driver Will explains details of our trip to the DNP Toklat River Rest Stop
7:40 Smiley Ranger Jen welcomes shuttle bus passengers at the DNP Savage River checkpoint
9:06 Mama grizzly bear and her 2 cubs forage for berries
11:39 Panorama of Toklat River drainage basin
12:54 Panorama from top of Savage River Alpine Trail
14:06 Arrival at Denali Depot of the Fairbanks-to-Anchorage Wilderness Express Alaska Railroad
15:50 Inside the busy, busy Denali National Park Visitor Center
16:27 Ranger Alex guided hike on the Triple Lakes Trail near the DNP visitor center
18:40 Hines Creek, Triple Lakes Trail, DNP
19:02 DNP Ranger Alex asks thought-provoking questions at the Riley Creek suspension bridge, Triple Lakes Trail, DNP
21:08 DNP sled dogs go CRAZY over a squirrel in a tree (LOUD!!)
22:10 Interesting illuminated display in the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows the percentage of successful ascents of Mt. Denali every year from 1992 to 2012
23:22 Gary gets a refreshing, mint chocolate chip shake in the AMAZING Freal automatic shake-making machine!!
25:12 Liberty Falls, adjacent to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
26:18 Acrobatic seals swimming (upside down) inside the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward
27:28 Sea lions spotted on the ranger-guided, 5-hr. Kenai Fjords Wildlife Cruise in Seward's Resurrection Bay
28:28 Waterfall seen on the ranger-guided, 5-hr. Kenai Fjords Wildlife Cruise in Seward's Resurrection Bay
29:01 My cute, little short-tailed weasel friend on the Harding Icefield Trail, Kenai Fjords National Park
29:41 Grizzly bear seen from the Harding Icefield Trail, Kenai Fjords National Park
30:13 Exit Glacier and its runoff, Kenai Fjords National Park
31:12 Salmon leaping up the artificial falls at Bear Creek Weir near Seward Highway Milepost 6.6
34:18 Spawning salmon in Grouse Creek, adjacent to Seward Highway Milepost 8.3
37:15 Salmon leaping up Russian River Falls on the Kenai Peninsula
39:35 Catching HUGE silver salmon from a boat in the Lower Kenai River on the Kenai Peninsula (my half-day fishing trip with King of the River fishing guides)
41:00 Young staff at the Alaska Native Heritage Center demonstrate Alaska native games
50:51 Panorama at Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park, Anchorage
51:23 Picking wild blueberries at Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park, Anchorage
51:59 Three jumbo jets landing a mere 200 feet above my head at Anchorage International Airport (Wow, SCARY!!)
54:47 Bicycle Fixit station alongside bike path in Point Woronzof Park, Anchorage
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Our Two Weeks in Alaska - July 2013
Sue and I traveled through parts of Alaska the last two weeks of July 2013 ... Denali National Park and a flight around Mt McKinley - Luxury train ride to Anchorage - Float Trip at Spencer Glacier - Two nights on the private Fox Island with an all-day cruise of Resurrection Bay - and Two nights at Brooks Camp at Katmai National Park with the Grizzlies catching Salmon. The weather was phenomenal ...
Alaska Basks in Warm Temps As Nation Shivers
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Anchorage, Alaska - 2 January 2018
1. Various of ice skaters at Westchester Lagoon
2. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:
I am from the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and it's colder there today than it is here in Alaska. And my children that are there are jealous because I've got 40 degree temperatures here.
3. Wide of skaters on lagoon with the Chugach Mountains as a backdrop
4. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:
I expected to come up here and freeze to death all winter. I'm heading home in the spring. And I hoped I lived through the winter. And now it's like, Hey! This is great.
5. Wide of ice skater
6. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:
It's nice to be out in the fresh air and looking at the mountains and the sky. It's beautiful here.
7. Various of people enjoying warm weather
8. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:
I guess for January it's pretty unusual. Usually it can be like negative 30 around this time of the year, January, February time frame. This is a little warm right now.
9. Medium shot of guy riding a bike
10. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:
No, I just think maybe it's time they get their little taste of it for awhile.
11. Medium of Durst walking off with her dog, Bayla,
12. Medium of bike rider
13. Wide of dog walking on the ice
14. Close ice skaters feet
15. Medium of man taking a walk
16. Close ice skaters feet
17. Wide of family playing on ice
18. Wide of Father and son playing ice hockey
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While a large part of the county is freezing under Alaska-like conditions, parts of the nation's northernmost state were basking in balmy conditions Tuesday.
The official temperature tied a record 44 degrees in Anchorage, set in 1981 and 2011. Some parts of Anchorage had temperatures closer to 50 degrees.
The National Weather Service says it's about twice as warm as the normal high of 24 degrees thanks to high and low pressures working to push tropical air to the north.
The warm weather won't last long for Alaskans, temperatures are expected to drop Tuesday night.
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Anchorage Tour of Tony Knowles Coastal Trail & Westchester Lagoon (4K)
After our cruise ship dropped us off in downtown Anchorage, we did the city trolley tour, visited the Alaska Public Lands museum, and then hiked part of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. It was a nice serene walk with good views. Never seen Mud Flats up close so that was a first for us. There were lots of birds, and thankfully we didn't bump into any bear. It was a nice day and lots of local folks were enjoying the trail. We ended the ~45 minute hike at the scenic Westchester Lagoon/Margaret Eagan Sullivan Park. There is a nice playscape there for kids and our son enjoyed some time there.
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Backpacking in Denali National Park during my Alaska-California Hitch-hiking Trek
I backpacked through Denali National Park, Alaska in July 2010 for 5 days by myself, some of the most physically grueling days of my life, but I survived and had a blast. I saw up close many grizzly bears, wolves, and caribou. I also got to see Denali, the tallest mountain in North America (20,320 ft) on a clear day, a very rare sight.
Three Hikers Saved In Alaska
Three hikers, one slowed by an ankle injury, signaled a passing military helicopter with a mirror for rescue from the Alaska wilderness when they tried to reach a bus made famous by the book and movie Into the Wild, a U.S. Army Alaska official said Friday.
It's the second rescue this summer of people making a pilgrimage to the abandoned Fairbanks city bus situated north of Denali National Park and Preserve.
The rescue, which was first reported by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, happened Tuesday after the three hikers became stranded by the raging Teklanika River.
A CH-47F Chinook helicopter from Fort Wainwright was on a training mission west of Healy when the hikers spotted it, U.S. Army Alaska spokesman John Pennell said.
As they were coming along, I guess, the Stampede Trail, the hikers signaled for them with mirrors and other stuff, Pennell said.
The helicopter, piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Rafael Calderia, landed and checked the hikers.
One of the females had a twisted ankle, but I guess what was really keeping them in place was the water level of the Teklanika River, Pennell said.
The hikers told the members of the U.S. Army Alaska Aviation Task Force that they had crossed the river on Monday, but water levels had risen within a day to impassable conditions. They also had run out of food on Sunday.
The military crew assessed the situation, and the helicopter returned to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks to refuel and to receive permission from the state's Rescue Coronation Center to take the hikers out.
The clearance was given to pick up the hikers.
They loaded them onto the Chinook and flew them out to where their car was parked on Stampede Road and told them, 'Go report it,' he said.
Pennell said recently a military crew rescued people from a plane crash after they were contacted by radio, but using mirrors is a different story.
I would imagine it's fairly out of the ordinary, he said.
The hikers reported the incident as instructed to Alaska State Troopers, who encouraged them to take Nichole Pickering, 25, of Florida, to a nearby clinic to check her leg injury.
In May, three German hikers trying to reach the bus on the Stampede Trail, near Healy, located about 10 miles north of the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve on the Parks Highway, also had to be rescued.
They told troopers the river they crossed getting to the bus had become impassable for the return due to high, swift-running water. The hikers had proper gear but only enough food for three days, troopers said.
Troopers flew the three hikers to their vehicle at the end of Stampede Road.
The green and white bus, used for years as a shelter for hunters, has become a destination for those seeking to retrace the steps of Chris McCandless.
The Bus, as it has become known, has been the source of multiple rescues since it was made famous, first by Jon Krakauer's book published in 1996 and then by Sean Penn's 2007 film, both of which chronicled the life and death of McCandless, a 24-year-old Virginian who hiked into the Alaska wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment and spent the summer living in the bus. McCandless was found dead in the bus almost four months later after starving to death.
Since the book and movie came out, troopers have rescued numerous hikers who hiked out to the bus but could not return due to high water in the Teklanika River. A woman from Switzerland drowned in the river three years ago on the trail to the bus, but it was unclear whether she was hiking to the bus or just hiking in the area.
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters says the bus is a destination like anywhere else in Alaska, and noted they have been involved in farm more rescues of people trying to hike Flattop Mountain in Anchorage.
Like anything else, some people are fine, others have issues.
Getting rid of the bus wouldn't help.
Even if you remove the bus, I'm pretty confident somebody would do some kind of makeshift memorial or people would just go out there anyway, Peters said. And it's one of those things whether it doesn't matter whether it's a structure or not, it's the infamy.
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Anchorage, Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Anchorage, Alaska
00:01:55 1 History
00:08:03 2 Geography
00:10:21 2.1 Cityscape
00:10:29 2.2 Wildlife
00:12:10 2.3 Climate
00:15:30 3 Demographics
00:19:45 3.1 Languages
00:21:06 4 Economy
00:26:51 5 Arts
00:28:52 6 Sports
00:32:47 7 Parks and recreation
00:32:56 7.1 Parks, gardens, and wildlife refuges
00:33:41 7.2 Recreational facilities
00:34:01 7.3 Points of interest
00:34:09 8 Government and politics
00:37:03 8.1 Public safety
00:39:21 9 Education
00:41:02 10 Notable people
00:42:32 11 Media
00:43:56 12 Health and utilities
00:46:36 13 Transportation
00:46:46 13.1 Major Highways
00:47:10 13.1.1 Highway to Highway
00:47:56 13.2 Public transit
00:48:26 13.3 Rail
00:49:30 13.4 Air transport
00:50:34 14 Sister cities
00:50:53 15 See also
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Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage; Dena'ina: Dgheyaytnu) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 298,192 residents in 2016, it is Alaska's most populous city and contains more than 40 percent of the state's total population; among the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in its most populous city. All together, the Anchorage metropolitan area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 401,635 in 2016, which accounts for more than half of the state's population. At 1,706 square miles of land area, the city is larger than the smallest state, Rhode Island, at 1,212 square miles.Anchorage is in the south-central portion of Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south. The city limits span 1,961.1 square miles (5,079.2 km2) which encompass the urban core, a joint military base, several outlying communities and almost all of Chugach State Park.Due to its location, almost equidistant from New York City, Frankfurt, and Tokyo, Anchorage lies within 9 1⁄2 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world. For this reason, the Anchorage International Airport is a common refueling stop for many international cargo flights and home to a major FedEx hub, which the company calls a critical part of its global network of services.Anchorage has won the All-America City Award four times: in 1956, 1965, 1984–85, and 2002, by the National Civic League. It has also been named by Kiplinger as the most tax-friendly city in the United States.
Bryant Army Airfield : Historic Airfield has Dynamic Future
BRYANT ARMY AIRFIELD, Alaska -- There are similar places all across Alaska like Bryant Army Airfield on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Listen closely and you can almost hear the men and women who've worked in the hangars, shops and on the flightline. Their stories paint a picture of a raw Alaska, and listening to their experiences is like sitting down with a blanket in front of a nice fire. Warm and vivid with the crackle of an old voice sharing experiences of a simple, yet more challenging time.
In the 1950s, Alaska was an untouched and developing territory with aviation at the forefront of transportation.
Fort Richardson was established in 1939 and following the National Security Act of 1947, the installation split into two military bases in 1950, handing over Elmendorf Field to the newly created Air Force.
With no airfield of its own, the U.S. Army on Fort Richardson established Bryant Army Airfield in 1958 to provide logistical support to remote areas across Alaska. Consisting of only one hangar, a landing strip and a few small support facilities, its primary mission was to deliver supplies.
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