Better Than A Hundred Pound Cabbage!

Our last weekend in Alaska was Labor Day weekend. Fall was already beginning to make an appearance when we arrived in Palmer, forty miles northeast of Anchorage where our dear friends, John and Hope Finney live. Palmer is the home of the Alaskan State Fair, famous for the enormous vegetables which are able to be grown during the long days of Alaskan summers. We thought that might be kind of an interesting outing. John and Hope had another suggestion, however, which sounded like something "just a little more stimulating", shall we say. They offered to take us on an outing using 4WD ATV's to see a glacier. It sounded like a lot of fun and having been on these ATV's a little with our friends, Ralph and Nadine, I visualized going up and down a few muddy trails and fjording a few narrow rocky creek beds. However, HAD EITHER PHIL OR I KNOWN WHAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO PUT US THROUGH, WE WOULD HAVE TOLD THEM THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY CRAZY! Point me to the coleslaw!

The picture at the top of this blog entry is not one of mine but it gives a good idea of some of the terrain we covered. We fjorded the Knick River several times


and made our way through tunnels cut through thick underbrush, over huge boulders and bone jarring chuck holes.

I truly wish I had pictures of the scary parts but one doesn't want to take their camera out and try to take pictures during these. The trip was 29 miles one way. I spent the first 29 miles white knuckling it through the muck and mire, and ice cold waters hanging on for dear life wishing Phil had nipple rings I could grab hold of!

The views were spectacular!!!







This was a highlight of our trip! What a rush! Fifty miles and seven hours later we arrived back at Finney's for homemade soup and great fellowship. Thanks Hope and John, for a great memory!

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