It was the 6th of July, and we set out on a beautiful day to drive over to Dawson City via the Taylor and Top-of-the-World highways. After loading the camper, we made a quick stop at the store for gas and hit the road with deli sandwiches for lunch. It was an easy drive to Tok, where we gassed up again before arriving at Tetlin Junction and heading north toward Chicken. Up there in the high country, past Mount Fairplay and back below treeline, it began raining. We pulled over to camp in a gravel pit and relaxed for the evening.
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Category Archives: Alaska
Fun Guy
We’ve had an extraordinarily wet summer. Earlier this month I strapped on a pair of knee pads and crawled through the woods shooting mushrooms. I’ve just now had the time to go through and choose some of the best images. We sure have a wide variety of fungi here…
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Healthy Red Meat
Oh, man…
Fresh Copper River red salmon fillet
(It’s grilling with smoke as I post.)
Sweeping All Day Sure Makes Me Tired
Figuring out when to go to Chitina to dip net for red salmon is always difficult, but this year was particularly challenging. The king salmon run was poor again this year, and they stopped letting you keep them after 19 June. But on average the reds run later than kings, so going early means you might get a king (this year you could keep just one), but you aren’t likely to fill out your permit on reds. That likelihood increases after the 4th of July, and the reds are generally larger then, too. And because the goal is to fill the freezer with fish, we’ve tended to forego the chance to get a king and go later.
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Leucopaxillus Risotto
A new crop of Russula mushrooms
With all the rain we’ve been having, a new crop of these delicious, big, white Russula Leucopaxillus came in and Rose and I decided to make a mushroom risotto.
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