.I'll be posting by "subject", first up: Horses!
After landing in the USA we spent the rest of the evening in Anchorage, then drove off to meet our guide who took us horseback riding to a remote cabin in the woods near Sewage.
Sunset from the Captain Cook hotel room in Anchorage.
Alaska in the summer has about 21 hours of light a day, this was taken at about 2350.
Green reflected in water
Nice nature shot, I love the greens and the grass.
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Snow Reflection
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Another Horse for breakfast
This horse spent hours staring at us through the glass in the cabin while we ate. His brother though, came and watched us from inside the cabin
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Nuzzle Nuzzle.
Horse angle
Lying down horse group
It's tricky to find horses sitting or lying down.
Squatting horse
Horsefaced?
Guess who's coming for breakfast
You can't tell, but he was literally an inch from the food table, he kept nuzzling my dad on the head while we ate. (He could get around the door's "bar" somehow and kept poking his head inside. Smart horse
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Skull
Ghost ladder
Turns out the cabin had an attic, with some of the animals the original owner had killed. (Including a bear pelt. Which he'd killed alone, in the winter, with a 6 inch pocket knife.)
Let sleeping mammals lie
Peanut butter walls
The cabin (which was restored in the 1980's) had walls lined on the outside with peanut butter can metal, and newspapers from the inside. surprising good for heat as well as keeping the water out. (It rained a LOT).
Packhorses go up
Fear the dot of a bear
The tiny black dot on the right is a bear and cub. It scared the shit out of my youngest sister, so the most I got to do on the second (very rainy) day was to hike by myself to the nearest mountain (which was the same one the bear was on). Unfortunately, there was another bear coming from the other side, and I ended up being ordered to go back halfway there
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Our luxurious view and amenities. (There was no electricity or running water, obviously. The stove was also blocked for the first day and a half)
Sweep
Cleaning up as we left.
Grey mountain sky
Wonderful summer weather
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Dammit, I need to go kayaking in 8 hours!
More to come, but comment on each batch on its own
. (And ask questions or critique or whatnot , I want quantity people!).
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