Monday, July 03, 2006
Angel Rocks
So, this weekend we headed out to Angel Rocks and Chena hot springs. My first trip to either. I've been out the road and done the Granite tors a couple times with Kim and Gary but never that extra few miles to the hot springs. Pretty fun trip. Nice views up there. Check it out:
I guess no surprise really, the local climbers head up there to hang out and climb a bit. Who knew the view would be so nice, too. Pretty short roundtripper of ~3 miles but it was enough to wear the chipper dogs out some. Check out a happy Matilda and then Midge and Bergey cracking me up, dorky dogs (more cameraphone goodness):
So, after that we headed out to the Hot springs. That was pretty fun, too. Got there just in time to catch a good old fashioned wedding in the ice hotel. We saw the happy couple later in the restaurant. At the time though they were pretty focused on not messing up the ol' ceremony.
Other stuff around the area killed me a bit, too. How hard is it to pick up a good barbecuing stick? These people have a couple of decidely ordinary ones. I think Rob L and I recylced one that was still at our campground but none of this carrying them across the state business:
Saw some cool stuff on Kenji's groundwater project out there. Pretty rough, he and Rob do work out there and then hit the hot spring before returning to Fairbanks. One highlight from the gift shop, this video from the GI:
Just plain old quality, neither good nor bad from UAF. Sweet. Well, more I'm sure after the fourth...
I guess no surprise really, the local climbers head up there to hang out and climb a bit. Who knew the view would be so nice, too. Pretty short roundtripper of ~3 miles but it was enough to wear the chipper dogs out some. Check out a happy Matilda and then Midge and Bergey cracking me up, dorky dogs (more cameraphone goodness):
So, after that we headed out to the Hot springs. That was pretty fun, too. Got there just in time to catch a good old fashioned wedding in the ice hotel. We saw the happy couple later in the restaurant. At the time though they were pretty focused on not messing up the ol' ceremony.
Other stuff around the area killed me a bit, too. How hard is it to pick up a good barbecuing stick? These people have a couple of decidely ordinary ones. I think Rob L and I recylced one that was still at our campground but none of this carrying them across the state business:
Saw some cool stuff on Kenji's groundwater project out there. Pretty rough, he and Rob do work out there and then hit the hot spring before returning to Fairbanks. One highlight from the gift shop, this video from the GI:
Just plain old quality, neither good nor bad from UAF. Sweet. Well, more I'm sure after the fourth...
