{"id":26528,"date":"2020-04-15T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=26528"},"modified":"2020-06-08T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:29:02","slug":"along-the-shoup-bay-trail-to-see-the-kittiwake-rookery-shoup-glacier-alaska-8-20-19-8-21-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=26528","title":{"rendered":"Along the Shoup Bay Trail to see the Kittiwake Rookery & Shoup Glacier, Alaska (8-20-19 & 8-21-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Days 16 & 17 of Lupe’s 2019 Dingo Vacation to the Yukon & Alaska!<\/em><\/p>\n

8-20-19, 6:04 AM, MP 32.8 of the Taylor Highway W of Mount Fairplay<\/em> – The American Dingo was still conked out.\u00a0 Had Loopster been up half the night watching the northern lights?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 Although the sky had been clearing to the N late yesterday evening, it was clouded over now.\u00a0 SPHP hadn’t seen a thing during a night of wild dreams.\u00a0 Cold out!\u00a0 SPHP fired up the G6.\u00a0 Conscious or not, Lupe was underway.<\/p>\n

The G6 had warmed up nicely by the time SPHP stopped at a pullout at MP 11 or 12.\u00a0 Lupe had rejoined the living.\u00a0 She hopped out to bid a fond farewell to Mount Fairplay<\/span><\/a> (5,541 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>, already on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Farewell to Mount Fairplay<\/strong> (L)! Photo looks NE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the G6 purred deeper into Alaska, Lupe relaxed.\u00a0 Plenty of time for additional Dingo beauty rest!\u00a0 Hours passed.\u00a0 SPHP needed to stretch.\u00a0 A stop was made at a pullout a mile or so before reaching the W end of the Tok Cut-off at Gakona Junction.\u00a0 Lupe always stops here for a look at the Copper River.\u00a0 Still impressive, the mighty river looked lower than usual.<\/p>\n

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Copper River<\/strong> from bluffs 1.5 miles E of Gakona Junction. Photo looks E.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The downstream view. Photo looks S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

8-20-19, 3:00 PM, Valdez, Alaska<\/em> – For the first time in 3 years, Lupe was back!\u00a0 In 2016, Valdez had been one of the very first places she’d ever visited in Alaska, hoping to explore the Shoup Bay trail far enough to see the kittiwake rookery and the Shoup Glacier.\u00a0 A gray, steady rain with no break expected for days had dashed those hopes.\u00a0 Today, however, things were looking up!\u00a0 Sunshine and blue skies!\u00a0 Only a hint of haze to mar the beauty of Port Valdez nestled among soaring peaks.<\/p>\n

After stops for supplies, lunch, and a lengthy stint at a car wash trying to remove as much of the Dempster Highway as possible from the filthy G6, SPHP found the Shoup Bay trailhead easily enough at the far W end of Egan Drive.\u00a0 A sign advised checking on current trail conditions.\u00a0 At the Valdez visitor center, the Shoup Bay trail was glowingly recommended in a glossy local area guide, but with the same admonition.\u00a0 However, no one at the visitor center seemed to know a thing about trail conditions beyond Gold Creek, only about a third of the way to Shoup Bay.<\/p>\n

Guess, we’ll have to find out for ourselves, Loopster!<\/em><\/p>\n

Not today, though.\u00a0 Way too late for that.\u00a0 The Shoup Bay trail was 10 miles long one way, supposedly a 14 hour round trip for most mortals, and who knows how long for SPHP?\u00a0 Happily, the guide also mentioned a much shorter Dock Point trail, which makes a 1 mile loop with views of the Port of Valdez and Alyeska Oil Terminal.\u00a0 An easy, evening stroll sounded like fun before a long trek tomorrow.\u00a0 The Dock Point trail started in SE Valdez near the small boat harbor.<\/p>\n

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Early evening at the Richardson Highway entrance to Valdez. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dock Point is right across South Harbor Road from the small boat harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before hitting the trail, Lupe paused at Harbor Cove, part of Port Valdez.\u00a0 The tide was out, and the harbor smooth as glass.<\/p>\n

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Harbor Cove<\/strong> from Dock Point<\/strong>. Photo looks SSE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dock Point trail started out heading E along the N side of a heavily forested peninsula.\u00a0 The trail soon split, forcing a choice on which part of the loop the American Dingo wanted to explore first.\u00a0 Lupe stayed to the L (N) on the lower part of the loop that ran along the S side of Duck Flats, a shallow salt marsh.<\/p>\n

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Sign at the start. E is up on the map.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of Duck Flats<\/strong>. Photo looks NE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Dock Point trail was wide and well-worn all the way to the start of private property near the E end of the peninsula.\u00a0 Here the trail veered S climbing 30 or 40 feet up into the forest.\u00a0 The peninsula wasn’t terribly wide.\u00a0 Lupe soon came to the first of two viewing decks overlooking Port Valdez.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the forest had grown up to such an extent that the view was now almost non-existent.<\/p>\n

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On the Dock Point trail<\/strong> after leaving Duck Flats behind. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A boardwalk led to the first (E) viewpoint. Photo looks S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hmm.<\/em> The lovely view from the E viewpoint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The best view was actually from a narrow embankment just outside a fence between the two official viewpoints.\u00a0 SPHP hoisted Looper over the fence and onto the embankment so she could see it.<\/p>\n

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Highlight of the Dock Point trail was this view of Port Valdez<\/strong>. Photo looks S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe enjoyed watching a sea otter playing in the harbor, while SPHP had fun reading various informational signs.\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"The Dock Point trail was pleasant enough, but Lupe was soon back at the start.\u00a0 The real adventure would come tomorrow.\u00a0 Before leaving the area, the Carolina Dog crossed South Harbor Road for a look at the crowded small boat harbor.<\/p>\n

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Maybe you could rent us a boat tomorrow, SPHP!<\/em> Photo looks WNW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Evening at Dock Point<\/strong>. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What little remained of the evening was spent exploring the NW bank of Mineral Creek close to the Shoup Bay trailhead.<\/p>\n

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Creek? Mineral Creek<\/strong> looked more like a river! Photo looks NE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

8-21-19, 8:22 AM, 41\u00baF, Shoup Bay trailhead, Valdez<\/em> – The weather had held.\u00a0 Unfortunately rather hazy, but clear and calm – Shoup Bay was a go!\u00a0 Once ready, SPHP paused long enough to grab a long-handled pair of loppers hanging on the back side of the trailhead information board, and slid it into loops on the back of the backpack.<\/p>\n

Comments in the trail logbook all talked about a lot of overgrowth to deal with, but here at the start, a wide level path led into a tightly-packed forest of tall thin trees.<\/p>\n

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Loop about to set off for Shoup Bay!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tools at the trailhead. SPHP took the hint, and grabbed the most formidable weapon available, a pair of sturdy loppers hanging on the back side of the trailhead information board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The forest proved small.\u00a0 Beyond it the trail continued between walls of extraordinarily healthy-looking bushes 2 or 3 times taller than SPHP.\u00a0 Nothing to see here!\u00a0 Even a bear would be invisible until it stepped onto the trail!\u00a0 Lupe set a lively pace sniffing ahead along the level path.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the trees already, between the magnificent bushes. The pair of loppers SPHP grabbed at the trailhead is at lower R.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first, the brush along both sides of the trail had been mowed back a few feet.\u00a0 Whoever did the mowing had gotten less ambitious as the trail went on, but the path remained clear and easy.<\/p>\n

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Farther along. The route wasn’t quite as wide here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

0.8 mile from the trailhead, the Shoup Bay trail broke out of the bushes entering a grassy plain.\u00a0 The trail split almost immediately.\u00a0 No sign.\u00a0 Lupe tried the L branch first, which went straight toward the ocean.\u00a0 It ended at a 2 foot high bluff overlooking a vast mud flat, no doubt normally underwater at high tide.<\/p>\n

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Entering the beautiful grassy plain 0.8 mile from the trailhead. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At the edge of the mud flats. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Worth seeing, but the wrong way.\u00a0 Lupe doubled-back, this time taking the R branch where the trail divided.\u00a0 Staying near the bushes, the trail curved around the N side of the meadow.\u00a0 Metal grate bridges got Loop over a couple of small creeks.<\/p>\n

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Crossing the first, and largest, stream. Photo looks NE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even the meadow looked prone to becoming mighty muddy during wet weather.\u00a0 Boards provided support along the NW edge of the plain.\u00a0 As Lupe traveled along them, it became obvious the trail was destined to disappear into the bushes again.<\/p>\n

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Along the NW edge of the plain. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A look back at the mud flats before heading into the bushes. Photo looks SE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soon after re-entering the bushes, the trail began a slow climb.\u00a0 Lupe gained elevation in fits and starts as she headed due W traversing the steep slope at the base of a towering mountain immediately to the N.\u00a0 Bushes crowded in on the narrow trail on both sides.\u00a0 Often Lupe led the way in a green tunnel, as SPHP stumbled after her over numerous roots and some stones.<\/p>\n

Every now and then the vegetation opened up revealing fabulous views of Port Valdez to the S and the mountains on every side.\u00a0 Ahead along the N shore, a delta could be seen, and well beyond it, a forested ridge.\u00a0 The S end of Shoup Bay lay hidden somewhere beyond that ridge!<\/p>\n

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Looking WSW across Port Valdez<\/strong> with lots of help from the telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Look at that! Now we’re getting somewhere!<\/em> Port Valdez<\/strong> (L) from the Shoup Bay trail. The yellow area jutting out ahead (Center) is the Gold Creek delta<\/strong>. Photo looks WSW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The trail eventually climbed a good 200 feet above the ocean.\u00a0 After that, it sort of leveled out, if one considers sizable bounces up and down along the slope level.\u00a0 A number of small washes were easily crossed, since they were all nearly bone dry.<\/p>\n

We’re in luck today, Looper!\u00a0 Not even any water in these little streams.\u00a0 Can you image how absolutely soaked we’d be if these bushes were wet?<\/em><\/p>\n

Totally drenched almost as soon as we left the meadow, SPHP!\u00a0 Not a good rainy day trail, that’s for sure.\u00a0 Say, mind if I ask you a question?\u00a0 I’ve been wondering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wondering what, Loop?<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve seen glaciers before, but what is a kittiwake, anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as I know, kittiwake is just a fancy name for a seagull.\u00a0 The rookery is where they have their nests, up on the side of a cliff, I believe.<\/em><\/p>\n

They nest on the side of a cliff?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, to keep safely away from wandering Dingoes, you know.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, what fun is that?<\/em><\/p>\n

None for you, maybe, but the kittiwakes are apparently happy with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Guess I’ll just have to settle for seeing the Shoup Glacier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why maybe?<\/em><\/p>\n

You might have to settle for just seeing Shoup Bay.\u00a0 I’ve read that the glacier has retreated a mile and a half in recent times.\u00a0 The topo map<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (scroll WSW) shows Shoup Glacier might have retreated around a corner we can’t get to.\u00a0 This trail might not go far enough now to even see it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh!\u00a0 That would be disappointing.\u00a0 Makes this an even bigger adventure than I thought, though.\u00a0 Promise me one thing, SPHP!\u00a0 Let’s keep going as far as we can, even past the end of the trail, if necessary.\u00a0 I’d really like to see the glacier.\u00a0 Maybe we can get all the way to it!<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the spirit, Loopster!\u00a0 And the plan, too!\u00a0 Shoup Glacier or bust!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Approaching the Gold Creek delta<\/strong> (Center). The S end of Shoup Bay is beyond the more distant partly forested ridge (R).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Lupe drew near a yellow delta jutting S out into Port Valdez, the trail began to drop toward it.\u00a0 She was almost all the way back down to sea level, in an absolute jungle, by the time she reached a junction.<\/p>\n

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Truly scenic! You do pick some fine trails, SPHP!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At Jungle Junction. Yes, another trail does go off to the R behind that fern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Again, no sign.\u00a0 The trail to the L had to go to the yellow delta, so Lupe tried it first.\u00a0 The American Dingo soon passed a bank of metal bear-proof storage lockers.\u00a0 Dinosaur-proof lockers would have seemed even more appropriate in this ferny wilderness.<\/p>\n

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Try to stay alert, SPHP! This is Allosaurus territory!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looper kept going and came to a lone tent tucked beneath ancient pines.\u00a0 Instead of glittering brightly, nearby Gold Creek was a disappointing milky gray.\u00a0 Even so, this was still a gorgeous campsite, and it turned out that Gold Creek was chock full of salmon!<\/p>\n

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The secluded campsite near Gold Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Zen moment along Gold Creek<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first, no one seemed to be around, but beyond the pines two women were examining rocks along Gold Creek.\u00a0 SPHP chatted briefly with them, while Loop sniffed about roaming the Gold Creek delta.<\/p>\n

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Exploring the Gold Creek delta<\/strong>. Photo looks SW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turned out that the women had arrived just yesterday evening.\u00a0 Their original intention had been to press on to Shoup Bay and the kittiwake rookery this morning, but they’d changed their minds.\u00a0 They didn’t say why, but Gold Creek was a gorgeous spot.<\/p>\n

As lovely as the Gold Creek delta was, Lupe couldn’t dawdle.\u00a0 Gold Creek was only 3.25 miles from the trailhead.\u00a0 The end of the Shoup Bay trail was still more than 6 miles away.\u00a0 Once again, the Carolina Dog plunged back into the jungle.\u00a0 At the junction beyond the bear-proof lockers, she now took the trail heading W.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t far from Jungle Junction to a big metal bridge over Gold Creek.<\/p>\n

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Crossing Gold Creek<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wow, this is quite a bridge! You coming, SPHP?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The big metal bridge was impressive, but at times Gold Creek must be equally so.\u00a0 The bank the trail approached from had been completely washed away, leaving a gap between the trail and the bridge.\u00a0 Four logs were positioned to bridge this gap.<\/p>\n

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Don’t be a klutz! You can do it, SPHP!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A look back from the far end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After crossing the bridge, Lupe hopped up on a mossy stump that had been cut to produce a Dingo-sized chair.<\/p>\n

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On the Gold Creek bridge stump chair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The trail ahead looked encouraging – no bushes and easy to follow!\u00a0 Beyond Gold Creek, the American Dingo made rapid progress.\u00a0 Slowly gaining elevation again, Looper trotted W amid ferns in a pine forest.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful, and so much easier than the bushes!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe’s great progress didn’t last.\u00a0 The Shoup Bay trail soon leveled out.\u00a0 Emerging from the forest, the trail entered a region thick with bushes.<\/p>\n

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As soon as the trail left the forest, the bushes were incredible!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although she couldn’t see a thing, the Carolina Dog kept going.\u00a0 Shortly after the trail started downhill, SPHP called a halt.<\/p>\n

Loopster, you there?<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course!\u00a0 What’s up?<\/em><\/p>\n

Is there a trail down there?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, you’re on it!\u00a0 I’m in a green tunnel again.<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought so.\u00a0 I can sort of feel the trail with my feet, but there’s no trail up here.\u00a0 I’m up to my neck in bushes, and can scarcely push through them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds like lopper time to me!\u00a0 Good thing you brought ’em along!<\/em><\/p>\n

Uh, yeah!\u00a0 You’re a riot, Sweet Dingo!<\/em><\/p>\n

I am?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What’s wrong, SPHP?<\/em><\/p>\n

A few days and a giant machete might do it, Loop, but these loppers are useless – a cruel joke!\u00a0 I’d need a month of Sundays to clip a way through this jungle.\u00a0 Nothing but bushes as tall as I am as far as I can see!<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, get down here then!\u00a0 We’ll take the tunnel!<\/em><\/p>\n

Crazy Dingo!\u00a0 We’re barely 15 minutes beyond Gold Creek.\u00a0 I’m not going to crawl for 6 miles with neither of us able to see where we’re going!\u00a0 It’s not worth it!<\/em><\/p>\n

You don’t want to see the kittiwake rookery and the Shoup Glacier?<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, I do!\u00a0 But not this bad!\u00a0 Face it, this trail exists only in the over-active imaginations of Valdez tourist guide authors.\u00a0 I mean, look around you.\u00a0 Other than your little green tunnel, do you see any sign that anyone else has come this way?\u00a0 Small wonder they don’t know what conditions are like on this part of the trail back at the visitor center.\u00a0 No one’s been this way in months, maybe years!\u00a0 We need one of your Allosaurs to come stomp a route through this mess.<\/em><\/p>\n

Allosaurs are no laughing matter, SPHP!\u00a0 If you don’t want to bother with the loppers, and simply want to turn around, fine!\u00a0 We can just forget this whole thing – kittiwakes, glaciers, and all!\u00a0 Just don’t jinx us by tempting fate with Allosaurs!<\/em><\/p>\n

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The invisible Shoup Bay trail ahead. Photo looks SSW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hiding out from Allosaurs down in the green tunnel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking E back over the Gold Creek delta<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that was that.\u00a0 Lupe’s Shoup Bay adventure was over without ever even having gotten halfway to Shoup Bay.\u00a0 Destined to fail, the Carolina Dog never did see the kittiwake rookery or the Shoup Glacier.<\/p>\n

On the way back, just before reaching the Gold Creek bridge, a faint side trail led N.\u00a0 Hearing a roar in the same direction, Lupe followed this path intent upon discovering the source.\u00a0 Nope, not an Allosaurus.\u00a0 Only a couple minutes off the main trail, a lovely waterfall gushed from a rocky mountainside into a pool where lucky Gold Creek salmon must spawn less than 0.25 mile from the sea.\u00a0 Definitely worth seeing!<\/p>\n

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Gold Creek falls<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

8-21-19, 2:33 PM, 73\u00baF<\/em> – It was over.\u00a0 Back at the Shoup Bay trailhead, SPHP returned the sturdy, yet completely inadequate loppers.\u00a0 Sunny and warm in Valdez, but even hazier than before.\u00a0 Odd.\u00a0 Humidity?\u00a0 Pollution?<\/p>\n

By 5:00 PM, Lupe was on the Richardson Highway on her way out of town.\u00a0 Hours later, the Carolina Dog snoozed peacefully on her pink blankie while the G6 rolled W on the Glenn Highway.\u00a0 A pink-orange sun sank into the murk.\u00a0 As the dim outline of Gunsight Mountain<\/span><\/a> (6,441 ft.)<\/span><\/strong> came into view, SPHP finally figured it out.<\/p>\n

Smoke!\u00a0 Alaska was on fire!<\/p>\n

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At Gold Creek falls<\/strong>, Shoup Bay trail, Valdez, Alaska 8-21-19.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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