Alpenglow TR with pictures

[ak_powder_monkey]

Well the snow sucked but it was a real pretty day heres some pictures

Arctic Valley
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16694.jpg

Looking Past Chair one at Anchorage
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16693.jpg

Sunset
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16692.jpg

Rondy
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16691.jpg

and more stoke
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16690.jpg

So what do you think about these pictures?

[ak_powder_monkey]

Some more pictures

Another Sunset pic
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16700.jpg

Look No whit crusties
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16699.jpg

[CantDog]

purrty

[phUnk]

Well, we're not letting you in until you do the Truffle Shuffle.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16699.jpg

[Crinkle]

omfg!!!!! phunk way to pull one out

[Endlessseason]

Thanks for the pics, AK. I always like seeing as much of Alaska as possible.

[raddam]

Baby RUTH!

long live Chunk

[ak_powder_monkey]

Wouldn't it be sweet in that first sunset pic if there was a dude doing a huge pow turn with snow blowing up in front of the sun?

[The Reverend Floater]

Gorgeous pics, AKPM.

[Plakespear]

Goonies never say die!!!!

[CaddyDaddy77]

How far from Anchorage is Aleyska? Is it visible in the pic?

Nice call Punk

[road trip]

Originally posted by Crinkle
omfg!!!!! phunk way to pull one out

Quoting Crinkle 'cause I couldn't put it any better. Rolling on the floor...

Nice pics though... reminds me of Delaware.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
How far from Anchorage is Aleyska? Is it visible in the pic?

Nice call Punk

ummm well its about half an hour from anchorage, an hour from my house, its way up turnigan arm, you can actully see the pass that drops into girdwood from up there, but its exactly the oppisite way of anchorage, the snow is so different in the anchorage bnowl and the rest of the chugach, anchorage averages like 60 inches a season, with the mountains getting a wee bit more while the top of aly averages like 600 inches per year, and flying in through that pass its amazing, it'll be huge snow covered peaks then you'll hit the bowl and its like dry and super windblown.

Imagine if you keep going strait up arctic valley and you'll get to aly, its actully only 18 miles from my house as the crow flys, but it takes an hour to an hour and a half (traffic dependent) to get there, you kinda have to go around a mountain range.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Cool, thanks for the info. Too bad that pic is a little fuzzy, cool to see the other range in the background, and the lift descending quickly over the roll.

[INDY GS]

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...=&postid=52677


two freakin drops, and water out the nose, damn that was who I thought of imediately too! nice pics, I miss AK.

edit: thats supposed to be a link to chunk. self JONG

[ak_powder_monkey]

Aly is basically strait back and over crow pass in this pic
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic13346.jpg

Heres a picture of the susitna flats, mount susitna and the chignits are in the background. town is in the foreground, as much as I get pissed off at the developement and stuff I realize that most of it is wilderness, as compared to say washington where theree are roads everywhere...
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16786.jpg
and off in the distance here you can see mount redout the volcano, it blew up in 1990 there is an awesome sequence of it blowing somewhere, its still like the size of rainer though, down that coast there are spurr, katmi, augustine, and Illiamna, all over 10,000 ft.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16787.jpg

[INDY GS]

akpowdermonkey, where is alpenglow in regards to the crow pass trail head? Ive heard of the place, but was under the impression it pretty much blew compared to Alyeska.

I have only been to AK in the summer and did the 26 miles from eagle river to girdwood, what an awsome place. I'm quite envious that you live in such an amazing place.

My wife worked in PWS and Valdez for two summers working on the APEX project, basically studing the effects of the exxon disaster on the ecosystem.