I made my 8th trip to Alaska in early August 2023. Friend Joan Tomlinson and I flew to Anchorage which was our base for visiting Katmai and Kobuk Valley National Parks. No backpacking/canoeing on this trip as the past trips, but instead we primarily wanted to see the Brown Bears feasting on salmon at Katmai (which will be covered in a separate video) and to fly to the Inuit Eskimo town of Kotzebue on the Bearing Straits. From Kotzebue we would fly by bush plane to see Kobuk Valley and its incredible sand dunes that are largest Arctic dunes anywhere (30 or so square miles and 20,500 acres). We were lucky, the fire smoke on the day we arrived in Kotzebue shifted and we were able to visit the dunes in the early evening. And in Anchorage we walked and bicycled their incredible greenways, enjoyed some quite good restaurants, and visited several attractions including Chugach State Park, just miles from Anchorage but with high mountains and glaciers, and the Muskox Farm where one of the north’s most hardy animals (cold for them is minus 60 or so) can be visited. See some photographs from the trip at these SmugMug links: Anchorage: theskeltonview... Kotzebue & Great Sand Dunes: theskeltonview...
Негізгі бет ALASKA TRIP: ANCHORAGE AND KOTZEBUE/KOBUK VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (August 2023)
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