Weekend at Eklutna
Monday, September 3rd, 2007September 2nd 2007
14 hours 9 minutes of daylight
After a hectic week with visitors from the lower 48, we decided to ease down by spending a couple of nights at the Eklutna lake campsite in the Chugach mountains. Since it is a holiday weekend and the campground would be busy, Michael took the camper (and the 4 animals) up early on Friday morning, and the rest of us (Susan and 3 kids) came up after school. Great weather with high temperatures in the 60s and lows in the upper 40s.
Eklutna has some nice hiking opportunities, and we hiked up (and I do mean UP—oh my aching legs!) the Twin Peaks trail. It took us an hour and 40 minutes to hike up, partially since we were busy picking berries along the way.
The trail is steep in places so frequent stops were a good thing. Too bad it was cloudy and when we got to the top there wasn’t much of a view to enjoy.
