Several hikes led us to impressive grand glaciers, abundant blue berry patches, through enchanted forest with manifold types of mushrooms, along rapid rivers with red sockeye salmon fighting their way upstream for spawning and to various lakes wherein the sky and mountains mirrored. The pictures sometimes look like kitsch, but the colors are indeed real! While hiking in the Chugach National Forest, we could even witness a bear swimming approximately 200 m in Lake Ptarmigan. Soon after, we encountered another bear along the trail; the black bear was so busy eating berries that we could observe it for several minutes.
Aside from the spectacular landscape, we have been enjoying opportunities to relax, to talk, to pick berries, to canoe and to get into the "Alaska holiday mood": bonfires and marshmallow roasting were part of it :-)!
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