Alaska

[cmh6476 1,024]

anyone been there?  Maybe an Alaskan cruise?  Salmon fishing?  Bear hunting?  I hear you can see Russia from Palin's house...

[posty 2,696]

LOL

[IGotWorms 4,058]

Spent years there. Beautiful state. I miss it often  

[jerryskids 6,790]

Going with my wife's family on an Alaska cruise this August; inner passage for 7-8 days.  Juneau, a glacier, plus 3 or 4 other stops.  Looking forward to some days of good hiking and exploring.   

[IGotWorms 4,058]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Going with my wife's family on an Alaska cruise this August; inner passage for 7-8 days.  Juneau, a glacier, plus 3 or 4 other stops.  Looking forward to some days of good hiking and exploring.   

Mt Roberts in Juneau is cool. Hike up and take the tram down

Perseverance Trail is great too.

From Perseverance you can go up Mt Juneau but that’s a pretty serious climb. Would not recommend unless you’re in pretty good shape.

Mt Jumbo, you’d have to take a cab or Uber to the trailhead but it’s a relatively easy one for a mountain climb and great 360 degree views from up top, including over to Admiralty Island, up the Gastineau Channel and down the Lynn Canal.

East Glacier Trail out at the Mendenhall Glacier is pretty easy and takes you to an impressive waterfall and, of course, glacier views. Pretty busy with tourists though

Outer Point trail is also pretty easy and takes you through old growth rainforest and out to a decent (though rocky) beach. Views of mendenhall glacier across the channel.

Boy Scout Beach Trail is getting pretty far out of town but it’s a beautiful spot on the Lynn Canal.

Lots of other great trails too. Love that area.

Would recommend the White Pass Railroad in Skagway, assuming you stop there too. I’ve backpacked the Chilkoot Trail several times and want to get back up there to hike it again with my boys.

[SUXBNME 1,499]

3 hours ago, jerryskids said:

Going with my wife's family on an Alaska cruise this August; inner passage for 7-8 days.  Juneau, a glacier, plus 3 or 4 other stops.  Looking forward to some days of good hiking and exploring.   

You're so full of sh1t, you fake engineer 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,436]

 

 

[jerryskids 6,790]

11 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Mt Roberts in Juneau is cool. Hike up and take the tram down

Perseverance Trail is great too.

From Perseverance you can go up Mt Juneau but that’s a pretty serious climb. Would not recommend unless you’re in pretty good shape.

Mt Jumbo, you’d have to take a cab or Uber to the trailhead but it’s a relatively easy one for a mountain climb and great 360 degree views from up top, including over to Admiralty Island, up the Gastineau Channel and down the Lynn Canal.

East Glacier Trail out at the Mendenhall Glacier is pretty easy and takes you to an impressive waterfall and, of course, glacier views. Pretty busy with tourists though

Outer Point trail is also pretty easy and takes you through old growth rainforest and out to a decent (though rocky) beach. Views of mendenhall glacier across the channel.

Boy Scout Beach Trail is getting pretty far out of town but it’s a beautiful spot on the Lynn Canal.

Lots of other great trails too. Love that area.

Would recommend the White Pass Railroad in Skagway, assuming you stop there too. I’ve backpacked the Chilkoot Trail several times and want to get back up there to hike it again with my boys.

Thanks, great stuff.   

Regarding Skagway, there are lots of different cruises with different stops; I intentionally picked one with Skagway because I've heard great things about that train ride.   

Stops are:  Icy Strait, Skagway, Endicott Arm, Juneau, Ketchikan

Looks like Juneau is the same day as Endicott Arm, so I'm not sure we'll get any big hikes in.

[wiffleball 4,790]

My fave part was watching a family of Eskimos sitting on the floor, slathered in blood ripping at the meat & fat in a manner that makes even polar bears .

Then washing it down with a 12 of Steel Reserve. 

just like their ancestors. 🥶

 

 

[IGotWorms 4,058]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Thanks, great stuff.   

Regarding Skagway, there are lots of different cruises with different stops; I intentionally picked one with Skagway because I've heard great things about that train ride.   

Stops are:  Icy Strait, Skagway, Endicott Arm, Juneau, Ketchikan

Looks like Juneau is the same day as Endicott Arm, so I'm not sure we'll get any big hikes in.

Sounds great

[jerryskids 6,790]

On 6/28/2024 at 7:55 PM, IGotWorms said:

Mt Roberts in Juneau is cool. Hike up and take the tram down

Perseverance Trail is great too.

From Perseverance you can go up Mt Juneau but that’s a pretty serious climb. Would not recommend unless you’re in pretty good shape.

Mt Jumbo, you’d have to take a cab or Uber to the trailhead but it’s a relatively easy one for a mountain climb and great 360 degree views from up top, including over to Admiralty Island, up the Gastineau Channel and down the Lynn Canal.

East Glacier Trail out at the Mendenhall Glacier is pretty easy and takes you to an impressive waterfall and, of course, glacier views. Pretty busy with tourists though

Outer Point trail is also pretty easy and takes you through old growth rainforest and out to a decent (though rocky) beach. Views of mendenhall glacier across the channel.

Boy Scout Beach Trail is getting pretty far out of town but it’s a beautiful spot on the Lynn Canal.

Lots of other great trails too. Love that area.

Would recommend the White Pass Railroad in Skagway, assuming you stop there too. I’ve backpacked the Chilkoot Trail several times and want to get back up there to hike it again with my boys.

Update$#@!

Flying out Friday, spending some time in Vancouver until cruising out on Sunday.  It's kinda funny that we are flying to a foreign country to cruise in our own country. 

Anyway, we have two excursions planned:

1. White Pass Railroad in Skagway as discussed.  All 13 of us are going.

2. Wife and I signed up for a helicopter ride to Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau) where we land, then learn about and ride dogsleds.  My wife's grandfather went to Antarctica with Admiral Byrd and ran the dogsleds (there is a much longer, more interesting story about this which I'll omit for now).  So this just seemed like an awesome, bucket-list kind of event (not cheap), but with family significance.  We can hike other places.

 

First stop, Icy Strait, we're in charge of watching my MIL, so might not make it off the ship.  It doesn't seem like there is a lot there, although my wife's side of the family is doing a whale-watching excursion.  Hopefully we'll get off the ship and hike around a little.

Ketchikan looks like some good hikes, we might do some there.  We haven't negotiated who is watching my MIL that day, tho.

Thanks again for the info, I'm getting excited!    

[Gepetto 1,367]

My dad has always been telling me that Admiral Byrd found an entrance into the earth when he went to the North Pole. 

https://www.ourhollowearth.com/Bernard/Chapter1.htm

[jerryskids 6,790]

21 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

My dad has always been telling me that Admiral Byrd found an entrance into the earth when he went to the North Pole. 

https://www.ourhollowearth.com/Bernard/Chapter1.htm

That's... interesting.   

Heading out for a Geek Meat (Bier, RHR, maybe Bunny?) so I'll read the entire thing tomorrow.    

[IGotWorms 4,058]

2 hours ago, jerryskids said:

Update$#@!

Flying out Friday, spending some time in Vancouver until cruising out on Sunday.  It's kinda funny that we are flying to a foreign country to cruise in our own country. 

Anyway, we have two excursions planned:

1. White Pass Railroad in Skagway as discussed.  All 13 of us are going.

2. Wife and I signed up for a helicopter ride to Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau) where we land, then learn about and ride dogsleds.  My wife's grandfather went to Antarctica with Admiral Byrd and ran the dogsleds (there is a much longer, more interesting story about this which I'll omit for now).  So this just seemed like an awesome, bucket-list kind of event (not cheap), but with family significance.  We can hike other places.

 

First stop, Icy Strait, we're in charge of watching my MIL, so might not make it off the ship.  It doesn't seem like there is a lot there, although my wife's side of the family is doing a whale-watching excursion.  Hopefully we'll get off the ship and hike around a little.

Ketchikan looks like some good hikes, we might do some there.  We haven't negotiated who is watching my MIL that day, tho.

Thanks again for the info, I'm getting excited!    

I may or may not have worked for one of those helicopter flightseeing outfits way back in the day

[jerryskids 6,790]

1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

And "who the fock are you?"

We're trying to have an adult conversation here.  Never go full retard.   

[jerryskids 6,790]

Just now, seafoam1 said:

We're trying to have an adult conversation here.  Never go full retard.   

You are seriously a blithering idiot.  Please go to one of the many threads you started over the weekend and say more stupid shiot in that thread. I'm trying to discuss Alaska cruise excursions.  TIA!

[seafoam1 3,017]

3 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

I'm sticking up for worms dammit even though he lashes out at others and can't take it back. 

 Very true. Wormy needs the help and you won't stick up for the guys he attacks. 

[jerryskids 6,790]

2 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

 Very true. Wormy needs the help and you won't stick up for the guys he attacks. 

This thread is about Alaska excursions, you focking imbecile.  I have the ability to isolate political vs. non-political threads.  You don't.  

Please delete your account, or at the very least, stop being an idiot in this thread.   

[seafoam1 3,017]

1 minute ago, jerryskids said:

This thread is about Alaska excursions, you focking imbecile.  I have the ability to isolate political vs. non-political threads.  You don't.  

Please delete your account, or at the very least, stop being an idiot in this thread.   

 

2 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Who is this dipsh1t?

[jerryskids 6,790]

14 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

 

Focus Seafoam.  Alaska.  If you don't have a comment on this topic, post in one of the other threads you've started,

 

[seafoam1 3,017]

5 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Focus Seafoam.  Alaska.  If you don't have a comment on this topic, post in one of the other threads you've started,

 

No. I'll comment back to guys who act like dlcks in other threads to other people. You should focus on one of the other threads you've started. This had nothing to do with you. 

 

[jerryskids 6,790]

3 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

No. I'll comment back to guys who act like dlcks in other threads to other people. You should focus on one of the other threads you've started. 

OK then...

[posty 2,696]

6 hours ago, jerryskids said:

although my wife's side of the family is doing a whale-watching excursion.

Watching for seafoam’s mom?

[IGotWorms 4,058]

Jesus

[IndyColtsFan 325]

Alaska is on my bucket list. 

[seafoam1 3,017]

7 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Jesus

 

12 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Who is this dipsh1t?

[seafoam1 3,017]

8 hours ago, posty said:

Watching for seafoam’s mom?

 

9 hours ago, jerryskids said:

This thread is about Alaska excursions, you focking imbecile.  I have the ability to isolate political vs. non-political threads.  You don't.  

Please delete your account, or at the very least, stop being an idiot in this thread.