Yesterday we drove back from Valdez..it rained till we got to the other side of the Alaska Range (over 200 miles of rain!! Ughh). I also found 20 caches!! That definitely beats my record of 16 in one day haha (mom and Bonnie found a couple more..I stayed in the car cause I was tired of being cold and wet :P). At one point all of a sudden I saw this ( Read more... )

We are in Valdez relaxing at the Bed and Breakfast. On Friday Bonnie picked mom and I up and we drove to Lost Lake, like an hour away. Three of Bonnie's friends were also there and stayed in our cabin too..that was cool, it was like a sleepover haha. After unpacking and lunch was the first class, Wild Edibles for me and Bonnie. It was AWESOME. It ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm going to Becoming and Outdoor Woman for the weekend and then it's off to Valdez! Amazingly, no rain is in the forecast!! It does show rain for Valdez though..maybe it'll clear up when I get there. ;) (For new people, when I travel I tend to bring the sun with me, even to places where it's rarely sunny. There was one time at Gulkana ( Read more... )

Today I turned 25..wow, I'm old haha. Crazy how fast time goes by. I got an Amazon gift card from Dana, $50 from grandpa, Barnes and Noble gift cards from Aunt Gina and Nina, geocaching stuff from mom, a call from Aunt Julie and lots of love haha. The weather seems to be nice so far..maybe we'll go caching again. Mom said she was 25 when she met ( Read more... )

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I'm back from BOW! On Thursday we left late haha and drove to Wasilla. The weather was sunny and gorgeous the whole way down. Mt. McKinley was AWESOME..it always is, but definitely up close haha. I played hours of Angry Birds on mom's iPad..so addictive. :P We got to Wasilla late and had trouble finding the hotel but with the help of mom's iPad we ( Read more... )

You Are the Blue Bird


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I got an email today with the BOW classes I'm taking..they're Ice Fishing, Safety in Bear Country, GPS and Bow Fishing (I think fishing with a bow and arrow?). Sweeet..I hope the weather's nice and not windy like last year haha ( Read more... )

This morning we met at the Fish and Game building and then piled into the van and Mike drove us to Chena Hot Springs Road. There was SNOW up there..aaah! Such interesting microclimates here haha. We first stopped at Leslie's house (she was at the summer BOW as well!) in Two Rivers. Her house and property is AWESOME..so pretty! We saw signs of moose ( Read more... )

Today we all met at the Fish and Game building in the conference room. It was indeed the same guy (Mike) from the summer BOW. He is so awesome haha..he just loves what he does. We went outside first to see some stuff before the sun went down. We went under a bridge by the Noyes Slough and saw some muskrat tracks (we saw some swimming too!) and some ( Read more... )