In Chugach State Park area just outside Anchorage. This was the type of weather I was expecting.
This is the old highway between Anchorage and Palmer. Not the new 4-lane divided road but much more scenic.
In this part of the state, autumn colors were not spectacular. Only occasionally did we see hints of yellow.
While the water level in the Matanuska River is low now, here is ample evidence that this river can run deep and wide.
Found at the exhibition garden of the Palmer Visitor Center.
Not large enough for the Alaska State Fair but an example of what can be grown in this fertile area of Alaska.
The intense blue of these flowers is what attracted me to them.
This hanging basket was at the Palmer Visitor Center.
As we travel south from Anchorage, the road follows the shoreline of the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet.
Along the Portage Glacier/Whittier road we found a vista for the Explorer Glacier. The water is the typical cloudy blue green of glacier melt.
A closer view of the glacier itself.
The Portage Glacier south of Anchorage has receeded so much that is is just barely visible across the lake formed from its melting ice.
Another view across a section of Portage Glacier Lake to another glacier in the distance.
The modern visitor center. In the '70's the Portage Glacier extended across the lake to within a mile of the visitor center.
