through the Denali Hwy (at last) and much more
hi again!
well, how were my photos?
hope you got a feeling of what I've seen, though it's so much stronger in reality!
well, let's get to work...
well, leaving Sam with my camera on me, i had a ride back to Denali park with a nice professor from Tennessee.
from there a couple of tourist guides took me for a short way (and bought me lunch), and then some US soldier took me.
He went all the way to anchorage, but i went only as far as Cantwell, to try the Denali Hwy again...
well, that afternoon, after trying for a couple more hours, i decided that the next morning I'll try for 1-2 hours, and than I'll give up and head to anchorage.
but then - in that morning i got a ride. in less than 30 minutes, i was taken by 3 women who decided to spent this Saturday hiking and picking berries somewhere along the Denali Hwy!
they only went 20 miles in (the whole road is about 135 miles long), but that was surprising!
well, i knew that I'll just spend there a few hours and than they'll come back and take me back to cantwell, but i was happy all the same!
and than an even greater miracle took place - i had a ride all the way through!!! the carpenter guy, who took me 2 days earlier from Denali to heally... he's Jeff, his girl friend is Sue, and they gave me a ride all the way to Valdez. in their pickup. a closed pickup. with all their stuff... but it was very cool. i was just lying there comfortably, and the way was very beautiful - The Denali Hwy (a dirt road) but even more - the way down to Valdez...
well, in Valdez i found out that i don't have much to do, and i missed the ferry, so i decided to hitchhike to Homer (in a day or two - hundreds of miles). but i had a ride with two very nice ladies in an RV (Raven and Josy) that went all the way to Seward, and it was raining, and my tent, my shoes, my sleeping bag, etc. were soaking wet, so i decided to join them and go to Seward.
luckily enough someone just canceled a reservation in the only hostel in town, so i got room there...
next day i was hoping to do laundry, spend quality time on the Internet, use the post office and just relax, but i couldn't - it was Sunday, and all was closed. so i hiked to exit glacier (very neat!) and Harding ice field (couldn't see much due to the weather, but got to see 3 mountain goats from about 3m) instead. in the evening i met a British girl, Caroline, that is also alone here, and we decided to hook up for hikes sometime...
next day was a perfect sunny day, so i ended all my chores by noon and went hiking the most beautiful lost lake trail. i ate my way up through salmon-berries and blueberries, camped near the lake, and explored the area for a little while. next day was raining again, so i did the second half of the trail, the Primrose trail quite fast, went back to Seward - to collect my stuff, had some raspberries (my ride told me that they grow just out the back door of the hostel) and hitched my way to Palmer.
after 5 rides, i got there.
it turned out that there were elections that same day, which was good, cause the ride from outside Seward to Anchorage was with David who works for Sara Palin - the candidate who won the elections - and he went there on that regard...
and the last ride, C J Mann, was very very kind, did a detour for me, and since i couldn't get hold of Kim, he finally left me at a 24-7 bar-motel-restaurant and gave me his phone numbers just in case...
Kim? who is Kim? Well, Kim is this most wonderful woman who just love Israel so very much and she and her family are so hospitable! they just let you into their home, and they urge you to feel as if it was your very own. they even gave me a car to hang around with... they're just amazing!
well, i stayed here for two days, while the former visitors are flying out (i came on Tuesday, Mordechai flew on Wed. and Zaki on Thursday).
Than i spent a Sabbath with Reuven and Bracha, a very nice KHABAD couple. they had many other guests too, and they have this cutest baby, and we went to the synagogue, and ate, and slept and talked, and it was really very nice, relaxing and calm.
On Sunday i met with Caroline (the British girl from Seward) and Depna (an Irish girl that Caroline met in Seward, after i left) and we went hiking along the Williwaw trail.
well, actually it's a bunch of trails and you just hike along and among them.
Basically it's an overnight trail, but since we started only at around 15:00, and it started raining at ~19, and it's already getting dark ~21:30, and we had a little navigation error, it became a 3 days hike.
but it was such a brilliant hike! we had less than 2 hours of rain all together during this 3 days (of course that when the rain was the hardest we decided to pitch my tent and wait inside, and the moment i finished him - just final touches left - the rain ceased all together), and the views were so gorgeous! small lakes, snowy summits, nice rivers, all covered with different shades of green, red, white, brown... just so beautiful!
and at the end, after losing our way for sometime, bushwhacking through high bushes and dense thickets, going from moose trail to bear trail, seeing coyotes, finding bear poop, getting a little frightened and on the verge of losing it (at least some of our little group), we ran upon a well-trodden-human-made trail that led to another trail head - not the one we left our car at, but Suzanna came to our rescue, willing to drive us to our car. But since we had an Irish girl with us, there was no choice and she took us first to pizza place that serves also beer...
when we got to the car we had another few moments of embarrassment, when the car wouldn't work. it turned out that the alarm went off, so the battery ended, and we had to fix both things, but Suzanna rescued us again!
than we went back to Kim's, and today i rested and made a SHAKSHUKA and a salad.
(it was written on Aug 30th)
that's about it for now.
have fun!
I know i will!
well, how were my photos?
hope you got a feeling of what I've seen, though it's so much stronger in reality!
well, let's get to work...
well, leaving Sam with my camera on me, i had a ride back to Denali park with a nice professor from Tennessee.
from there a couple of tourist guides took me for a short way (and bought me lunch), and then some US soldier took me.
He went all the way to anchorage, but i went only as far as Cantwell, to try the Denali Hwy again...
well, that afternoon, after trying for a couple more hours, i decided that the next morning I'll try for 1-2 hours, and than I'll give up and head to anchorage.
but then - in that morning i got a ride. in less than 30 minutes, i was taken by 3 women who decided to spent this Saturday hiking and picking berries somewhere along the Denali Hwy!
they only went 20 miles in (the whole road is about 135 miles long), but that was surprising!
well, i knew that I'll just spend there a few hours and than they'll come back and take me back to cantwell, but i was happy all the same!
and than an even greater miracle took place - i had a ride all the way through!!! the carpenter guy, who took me 2 days earlier from Denali to heally... he's Jeff, his girl friend is Sue, and they gave me a ride all the way to Valdez. in their pickup. a closed pickup. with all their stuff... but it was very cool. i was just lying there comfortably, and the way was very beautiful - The Denali Hwy (a dirt road) but even more - the way down to Valdez...
well, in Valdez i found out that i don't have much to do, and i missed the ferry, so i decided to hitchhike to Homer (in a day or two - hundreds of miles). but i had a ride with two very nice ladies in an RV (Raven and Josy) that went all the way to Seward, and it was raining, and my tent, my shoes, my sleeping bag, etc. were soaking wet, so i decided to join them and go to Seward.
luckily enough someone just canceled a reservation in the only hostel in town, so i got room there...
next day i was hoping to do laundry, spend quality time on the Internet, use the post office and just relax, but i couldn't - it was Sunday, and all was closed. so i hiked to exit glacier (very neat!) and Harding ice field (couldn't see much due to the weather, but got to see 3 mountain goats from about 3m) instead. in the evening i met a British girl, Caroline, that is also alone here, and we decided to hook up for hikes sometime...
next day was a perfect sunny day, so i ended all my chores by noon and went hiking the most beautiful lost lake trail. i ate my way up through salmon-berries and blueberries, camped near the lake, and explored the area for a little while. next day was raining again, so i did the second half of the trail, the Primrose trail quite fast, went back to Seward - to collect my stuff, had some raspberries (my ride told me that they grow just out the back door of the hostel) and hitched my way to Palmer.
after 5 rides, i got there.
it turned out that there were elections that same day, which was good, cause the ride from outside Seward to Anchorage was with David who works for Sara Palin - the candidate who won the elections - and he went there on that regard...
and the last ride, C J Mann, was very very kind, did a detour for me, and since i couldn't get hold of Kim, he finally left me at a 24-7 bar-motel-restaurant and gave me his phone numbers just in case...
Kim? who is Kim? Well, Kim is this most wonderful woman who just love Israel so very much and she and her family are so hospitable! they just let you into their home, and they urge you to feel as if it was your very own. they even gave me a car to hang around with... they're just amazing!
well, i stayed here for two days, while the former visitors are flying out (i came on Tuesday, Mordechai flew on Wed. and Zaki on Thursday).
Than i spent a Sabbath with Reuven and Bracha, a very nice KHABAD couple. they had many other guests too, and they have this cutest baby, and we went to the synagogue, and ate, and slept and talked, and it was really very nice, relaxing and calm.
On Sunday i met with Caroline (the British girl from Seward) and Depna (an Irish girl that Caroline met in Seward, after i left) and we went hiking along the Williwaw trail.
well, actually it's a bunch of trails and you just hike along and among them.
Basically it's an overnight trail, but since we started only at around 15:00, and it started raining at ~19, and it's already getting dark ~21:30, and we had a little navigation error, it became a 3 days hike.
but it was such a brilliant hike! we had less than 2 hours of rain all together during this 3 days (of course that when the rain was the hardest we decided to pitch my tent and wait inside, and the moment i finished him - just final touches left - the rain ceased all together), and the views were so gorgeous! small lakes, snowy summits, nice rivers, all covered with different shades of green, red, white, brown... just so beautiful!
and at the end, after losing our way for sometime, bushwhacking through high bushes and dense thickets, going from moose trail to bear trail, seeing coyotes, finding bear poop, getting a little frightened and on the verge of losing it (at least some of our little group), we ran upon a well-trodden-human-made trail that led to another trail head - not the one we left our car at, but Suzanna came to our rescue, willing to drive us to our car. But since we had an Irish girl with us, there was no choice and she took us first to pizza place that serves also beer...
when we got to the car we had another few moments of embarrassment, when the car wouldn't work. it turned out that the alarm went off, so the battery ended, and we had to fix both things, but Suzanna rescued us again!
than we went back to Kim's, and today i rested and made a SHAKSHUKA and a salad.
(it was written on Aug 30th)
that's about it for now.
have fun!
I know i will!
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