There are no mosquitoes this time around but there are overcast skies with the chance of a deluge. Oooh, lucky me!
As usual I have chosen a location where I can still get WiFi access, because let's face it, we can do without flushing toilets and central heating, but the lack of internet is simply barbaric!
Later this evening I am looking forward to a meal of undercooked processed meat with splinters in it, washed down with warm beer, and for dessert charcoal black marshmallow flambe.
Of course as you know I love Alaska and will soak up as much nature (Hopefully NOT in the crotch of my jeans this time) as I can before the snow arrives, which gauging from the fact that there is termination dust on that mountain over there may be much earlier than we are prepared for.
Okay seriously, is that snow? Goddammit!
I will provide you updates as events warrant.
I hope your weather is great and you have a wonderful time. Please post photos and fun stories.
ReplyDeleteI personally think AK deserves a late fall, a very late fall, after last winter took over your spring.
ReplyDeleteWe always take a bottle of Bailey's (breakfast of champions, apparently) when we go camping.
ReplyDeleteOnly a bottle of Baileys? The folks that I hike and camp with bring a few carefully protected "growlers" of the best local beer , a bottle of whisky (bubble wrapped in someone's backpack) , a bunch of pot and some vodka and OJ. That plus a carefully protected french press, some ground french roast and then, only then does the Baileys come into play :-)
DeleteDude, that sounds awesome. I have never been to Alaska, but hubby played there in 2000 on NYE at the Valdez convention center and had a local take him around. He saw a frozen water fall and was astounded. He also played on a cruise way back when he was a puppy and saw the aurora borealis while smoking a doobie on the deck after the gig.
ReplyDeleteYou are just so damn lucky. I'm in the freaking desert and it's a hundred and somethin' stupid.
Be safe and have a great time.
Nice Tush! Have a great time!
ReplyDeleteTermination dust already? Yikes! Nice head of thick, grey hair, IM!
ReplyDeleteThats a cute butt..
ReplyDeleteYears ago we did lots of trips on the Denali Highway and remote hiking, camping with friends. After one very memorable event with rain and snow and wind and miserable conditions we returned home and went straight to REI and asked for the best "expedition mountaineering tent" that they sold that would sleep two or three comfortably; price was not a factor. They hooked us up with the North Face Expedition tent which we still use to this day, nearly 20 years later and it's never leaked even when we accidentally pitched it in the high tide zone on a Prince William Sound beach and woke up in a 8 inches of water surrounding us. It was nearly $700 back then but it was the best $700 I've ever spent and it only weighs 10lbs!
ReplyDeleteCamping; part misery, part joy, but after it's over you are always glad that you did it!
Did you leave a trail of Bartles and James lables so Bristol Palin could find the camp?
ReplyDeleteI was up in the Panhandle on a Holland America cruise last week, and the weather was glorious every day except Thursday in Sitka (which we expected, because I've been watching the extended forecast up there for weeks).
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time in 3 Alaska cruise vacations the weather has been THIS good for me. It started looking like it'd be great this year when I read about the 90 degree heat wave you Alaskans enjoyed/suffered through a month or two ago.
We went up Tracy Arm, and watched HUGE chunks of the Sawyer Glacier drop into the fjord. And since my first cruise visit to Juneau in 1998, I've been amazed at how much the Mendenhall Glacier has receded.
I'm old enough to remember how large the Nisqually Glacier on Mt. Rainier once was in the 1960s, and it really concerns me that so many morons continue to deny climate change. Are they really so blind as to not see this most obvious change?
Have you ever made it up to Anchorage, or Denali Park or Fairbanks? Suffice it to say, Southeast Alaska is glorious but there is so much more to see!
DeleteKajo, next time you're headed this way, be sure to say something. you can have a personalized tour and meet other IMers and Mud Pups in Juneau.
DeleteThat goes for other IMers too.
A teacher I work with is in Alaska right now, taking a vacation with three of her friends. They took a cruise and then rented a car to drive up to Denali. Last month, I met with her to give her some suggestions and information, based on the 4 trips I've made previously.
DeleteI am sooooo jealous because there's no place I'd rather be right now than on that trip with them!
Your post made me smile! I am happy you are happy! Enjoy, as I know you will.
ReplyDeleteTermination dust? Sheeeit! Don't encourage the climate change deniers!
ReplyDeleteOther than that, have a great time! I know, bitchin' and moanin' goes with the fun of campin', so enjoy all of it!
OMG! Not another ass shot.
ReplyDeleteOn top of cowboy legs, too. That's HAWT!
DeleteDoes that make you unhappy? Some of the ladies like to see a man in jeans with a tight little butt, especially one that is around a "certain age" as face it, most men nearing 50 or over are not sporting tight butts, nor even a butt at all :-)
DeleteCarry you some pest repellant to keep them Palin gals from gettin them some booty time. In the dark, they might put the hoody-doo on ya and then you won't ever get that stank off of ya mule there.
DeleteWhat are "cowboy legs"? I've never known a "cowboy" but while growing up we rode in jumping and coursing events in Virginia and I've never heard of that term.
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DeleteDoes that make you unhappy? Some of the ladies like to see a man in jeans with a tight little butt, especially one that is around a "certain age" as face it, most men nearing 50 or over are not sporting tight butts, nor even a butt at all :-)
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That's for sure! Have a great time G-man!
Bravo Gryphen! Somebody needs to suck up nature.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm an indoor girl. Books, cable, air-conditioning,
screens to keep killer mosquitos out, and clean well cooked food to
eat before getting on the treadmill (my kind of hiking) before falling into
a comfortable bed.
I do like survival shows though. Watch out for bears . . . .
Second that!
DeleteAnd I love the feel of porcelain under my butt in the mornings.
Cute picture ;-) Have a safe and fun time!
ReplyDeleteJust finished hiking over at Hatcher Pass.
ReplyDeleteAt least I think it was Hatcher Pass.
It was actually so damn foggy it could have been just about anywhere.
Hatcher pass! I've been there! Where do you camp there? I was down by the river "Little Su" where the abandoned (?) gold places or what all they are at.
DeleteYeah like I'm giving you my coordinates this close to the enemy compound.
DeleteNice try!
You're pretty funny! A lot of your readers live much closer to where you are right now than do the Palin Klan!
DeleteYou poor slob. I'm so lucky with my Mtn. Man McGiver. When we go camping - even hike in's - he always makes luxury living camp site. We sleep well, at least he does, I always seem to get the slant, or the pothole, but at least I am warm, dry and well fed. I've been presented with a slate rock plate loaded with fresh caught trout cooked on an alder wood fire, in the misty rain. Somehow he can cook me gourmet meals in the wilderness, but when in the home kitchen? Its a nightmare....go figure.
ReplyDeleteI too have wondered about the magic cooking ability men display while outside.
DeleteKeep 'em dry, Griff.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's that time of year where we realize we need one last hurrah of a few days of vacation and outdoor activity to try to stretch out the last days of summer that are soon coming. Where I live, as soon as the crickets are in full chorus, I know it's time to to check out the farmer's almanac for what could be a doozer winter ahead. And I must bear hearing the older folks here say, "it won't be long before we see that white stuff".
ReplyDeleteMay the bears fear you and the mosquitoes find you taste bad, G., and have a good time, you deserve it.
It's quiet outside. Too quiet.
ReplyDeleteWhenever it gets this quiet you know nature's up to no good.
I assume Jason Vorhees is right outside the tent so I will not risk a peek.
I live just a few miles outside of Wasilla, just few miles from the Edgerton-Parks road at the base of the Hatcher Pass road, and it's quiet, really quiet, most of the time, at least after 10pm or so hardly any vehicles or activity happens, however, the other night I was sleeping in our screened porch and one the pit bulls started huffing, and puffing and barking and stirring up the other 4 dogs and I kind of freaked out and started to feel uncomfortable having no solid walls but only screen on three sides of my bedroom! I too thought of "camp crystal lake and Jason!" but the pit calmed down and went off to one of the upstairs rooms and then I slept calmly!
DeleteI did grab the bear spray and put it into the bed with me, however, I've never seen a bear on our property.
Suck it up Gryphen! I myself LOVE camping. I went up into Manitoba for a three day weekend last month, camped a weekend in June in Northern Minnesota near Itasca State Park and now going out to the North Dakota Badlands in a week.
ReplyDeleteYou've earned it, dude! Have FUN!
ReplyDeleteNothing better than REAL hiking and camping! Ever try bananas foster with those fire blackened marshmallows? With a rum chaser, makes a great nigh cap.
ReplyDeleteA Man In Alaska Invented A Way To Turn Water Into Beer
ReplyDeleteBeer just got a lot more portable.
What if I told you lugging a 12-pack through the woods or across the beach could be a thing of the past? Making bro dreams come true, Pat’s Backcountry Beverages has developed a beer concentrate that’ll whip up a 16oz ale, just add water! Oh, and CO2, because flat beer is not the business.
In what can only be described as an on-the-go sodastream, Pat’s has designed an easy-to-use carbonation system that will have you chugging down a cold frothy beer in minutes.
Simply add your pouch of beer concentrate to your Carbonator, fill the plastic bottle with 16oz of water and get to shakin’. The secret is in the Eco2Activator powder, a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and citric acid that gives the drink it’s bubbly nature. The powder is housed in it’s own compartment so it won’t mess with the flavor of your brew.
The aptly named “Hybrid Brewing Technology” is a unique brewing process creator Pat Tatera uses to create his beer concentrate. This secret process involves creating the beer without the water, rather than trying to pull the water out of an already brewed beer. The result is a beer syrup that combines successfully with water to create a full bodied brew.
Don’t expect to find these packets at your local Bed, Bath and Beyond. Due to the high alcohol content, the Pail Rail and Black IPA concentrates will be sold for $9.95 (4-pack) at liquor stores starting in September.
http://www.businessinsider.com/just-add-water-beer-invented-2013-8
I recently saw Nick Broomfield's movie and there is "full frontal" of Gryphon. He is really cute!
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Ya know, if I was going to follow Gryph home it would be for his brain not his backside! And, he'd be thinkin' why is that old broad following me?
DeleteHuffPo has nothing on you!
RJ in Brownbackistan
Okay, I predicted that there would be "about" a dozen comments about the...ahem...quality...of Jesse's derriere. You guys disappointed me; there were only 10! :)
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