Alaska Hike #7 - O'Malley Peak

This is the most recent and biggest hike I've done here in Alaska! We hiked the Highest peak that you can see in the Chugach bowl by Anchorage. It was a 4000 ft. elevation gain and took us about 3 hours to reach the summit! One thing I learned about myself and hiking: I really shouldn't wear a hat when I start hiking, because once I put it on I can't take it off and my hair coming out of the hat gets all wet from the sweat dripping down my neck. Gross! This is me and my friend, Molly, from Fort Collins, CO.

We were a little late for it, but some guy hiked up the mountain with his snowboard and then snowboarded down the slope into the lake. Crazy! I'm about to climb up this beast! And there is still more after this!

This picture doesn't capture it, but that lake was so so blue! It looks untouched!
This person is not me

We saw four lakes

I made it!View from the top! The clouds here are amazing!

This is the group of handsome men that I got to hike with! Me and 2 other girls, and how many guys? This was at the very end of the hike; and a very nice way to end it!

Winner Trail

This is Winner Trail! A beautiful 5 mile hike about 30 minutes south of Anchorage! It was so lush and green! Li-Sha and me (on the hand-tram, see below)

Janel and me (She is definitely one of my favorites! She's been on a date with Mark Madsen, so she and I had lots to talk about!)

At the end of the hike there is a hand tram that goes across a gorge that is probably 60 feet down. This little cart is on a pulley system and you pull yourself (or you get the big guys to help) across to the other side. It was such a fun hike!

Deep Sea Fishing out of Seward!

Cindy and I went deep sea fishing out Seward last Friday! It was so much fun! We each caught two Halibut, just little ones! Reeling in the fish is super hard. It took both Cindy and I to reel them up. Our captain and crew were really wonderful!

































































There were about 12 people on our boat and so there were quite a few dead fish on the boat. They would just throw them down into the bottom of the boat. Lots of dead smelly fish! On the 3 hour ride back to shore our crew guys, Dan and Bobby filleted them all.
































On our ride out to sea we saw porpoises! They were playing in the wake of the ship! On the way back we saw whales! The scenery on the way in was beautiful! The pictures don't quite capture it all!

Marilyn's issues

I just need to say that making a blog is the hardest thing I've ever tried to do on a computer and I don't think blogspot is very user friendly. I spent forever trying to arrange the pictures on the "misc" post. I finally thought I got it all right, but no, I publish it and it goes crazy. I apologize that the text doesn't match the pictures, but I ran out of patience.

Misc

Here are some pictures from different things. First, the mosquitoes here are huge! And I seem to attract them like crazy. I counted 17 bites on one leg. This picture doesn't show it very well, but I really look like I have chicken pox!




















Here are some baby ducks I saw last week while I was water skiing in the freezing alaskan water!

Below are pictures of the camp out that I went on with the relief society.











































These pictures were taken from inside my bedroom.It looks like the moose is kissing my pansy!

First Hike! O'Malley Saddle

Here are pictures from the first hike that I took in AK. The O'Malley saddle is pretty much just behind my house. And here is an idea of how light it stays. We finished our hike around midnight so the pictures of the sunset were taken between 11 and Midnight! The girls in the picture are some friends I've made who came up here from BYU on a landscaping internship.

Worlds Beard and Moustache Championships

The Worlds Beard and Moustache Championships (and yes, that was the way they spelled mustache) were held in Anchorage two weeks ago. I've never been around so much facial hair in my life! They had a parade downtown so my friend and I went. Here are some highlights: