Day 15 - Sep 14, 2000 Last updated: 9/14/00 8:00pm AKDT
Did some hiking today, the weather was mostly sunny, not sure if we hit the predicted high of 51. We hiked to an elevation of 2800 ft. Of course we hitched a ride for the first 2300 ft. We rode the tram (aerial cable car) to near the top of the mountain behind the hotel. Then we hiked. Those last 500 vertical feet were tough. We had to stop every so often to catch our breath. This was on a trail too, we were not mountain climbing. Here’s the hotel from the front, you can see the tram building at the top of the hill behind the hotel. The other picture is of the hotel looking down from the tram building.
Here’s a view of the tram building from 2800 ft.
More wildlife. Here’s a marmot we saw hanging out by the tram building.
This has to rate as one of the nicest hotels we have ever stayed at. I have never seen a hotel that has door bells for the rooms. Tomorrow we check out and travel back to Anchorage for a day of milling around downtown and some shopping.
Up until we hit Girdwood, I did not think I could live in Alaska, a little too rustic. But Girdwood is pretty nice. Close enough to Anchorage, but a very small community, surrounded by mountains, and tons of great smelling evergreen trees (pine? spruce?). Tune in tomorrow to see if we are coming home. 🙂