With the Independence holiday approaching here in the US like most I find myself looking forward to the long weekend and at this moment find myself writing out my list of groceries I need to buy tonight for before packing and heading off bright and early tomorrow morning with my friend C to head up to Denali National Park once again for a long weekend of camping and hiking / shuttling in the park....

Female Brown Bear Hallo Bay - Katmai National Park, Alaska Seven days, 1600 miles. To include the likes of Denali National Park, Fairbanks, Paxson, Copper Center, Valdez, Homer and then over to Katmai National Park. An amazing time on a grand scale. Obviously a lot to sort through both in images and in thoughts. And a little over the week before I'm gone again. It's summer on a grand scale....

After four years of long arduous work and among much hype, the National Park Service recently held the opening of the Eielson Visitor Center on June 8th. The redesign of the visitor center began in 2002 when the National Park Service determined the the 2,000 square foot center could not accommodate the rapidly expanding number of visitors to the park. Taking a step into environmentally friendly con...

With the arrival of Friday while most are turning their eyes towards weekend and the sense of anticipation begins to build for their two days off, I find my eyes turning to the sense of anticipation and the arrival of my next vacation. In which I shall depart later today and head on what I shall deem my "birthday trip" since that day arrives on Monday. My plans for the coming summer are indeed busy...

Two years ago the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center whose home is in Portage Alaska inherited two abandoned brown bear cubs by the name of Sadie and Haines. Sadie was found near a landfill in Kotzebue Alaska while Haines was found abandoned and roaming among houses and porches in Haines, Alaska. A year later they were joined by a spritely little bear named Kenai whose mother was shot by a hiker i...