Trip to Washington & Alaska last year

[NathanaelBC]

My second trip to Alaska and my wife's fourth. We started in Seattle and stayed near Mt Rainier then flew to Juneau and did Mendenhall Glacier and Admiralty Island (with the highest concentration of brown bears in North America) then flew to Anchorage and did Matanuska Glacier, Columbia Glacier (out of Valdez) and all the glaciers in Blackstone Bay near Portage.

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Off-season ski area near Juneau:

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Giant fir trees in old-growth forest near Mt Rainier:

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Bear on slopes of Mt Rainier:

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Pika territory:

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Old-growth forest:

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Marmot sneaking up on my backpack:

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Mt Rainier:

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Ptarmigan:

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Mendenhall Glacier:

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Dragonfly:

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Old-growth forest:

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Ice cave under Mendenhall Glacier:

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Brown Bears at Pack Creek getting too close:

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My wife and I kayaking away from Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau:

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Brown Bears at Pack Creek:

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Ice cave under Mendenhall Glacier:

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Young brown bear being scared off by a larger bear:

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Camping ground and beaver territory just outside Juneau:

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Squirrel!

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Mt Rainier:

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Pika territory:

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Brown bear checking on pursuer:

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Juneau:

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Hike to Mendenhall Glacier:

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[Uncle Al]

Love the pic of the dragon fly in mid flight. There is some interesting wild life over there, and the scenery is a bit of all right too!
Thanks for posting,

Alan...

[Repliconics]

Got to go with Al on the dragonfly shot "Fantastic".
And the rest are awesome shots as well!.
Beautiful stuff.

Cheers
Trev.

[crowie]

Thank you Nathanael for sharing your holiday photos, some top shots there.
It just makes one wish they could have been on the trip too [all except the kayaking for this old bloke]...
On the bucket list...Cheers, crowie

[NathanaelBC]

Trust me, I wish I could have foregone the kayaking! Much prefer to be on foot on solid ground.