Alaska

[MrSparkle001]

Alaska is too damned cold and too damned rural.

Not that I'm a city guy but I draw the line at cold wilderness.

[Trude]

Lived here for 3 years now. I love it...mostly.

Not the rain, though. Rain gets old.

[Kaveh]

Originally Posted by Trude [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lived here for 3 years now. I love it...mostly.

Not the rain, though. Rain gets old.

The rain has sucked the past three weeks, I’ll admit. We had one sunny day in anchorage last Wednesday I think? That’s been about it

[Ooloo]

What was that show about the alaska family with the old dude with a white beard? That was pretty cool.

Brown town or something.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ooloo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What was that show about the alaska family with the old dude with a white beard? That was pretty cool.

Brown town or something.

Fuck, the wolf pack people?

[Ooloo]

Yeah thats it! I watched the first two or three seasons of that. It's oddly endearing.

[Jibartik]

Whats the rain like? Some places have big rain with big fat drops, some places have small rain with itty bitty teeny drops, and some places have medium rain with little regular drops.

Im curious what alaska has because that is about as exciting as my life is.

[Kaveh]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Whats the rain like? Some places have big rain with big fat drops, some places have small rain with itty bitty teeny drops, and some places have medium rain with little regular drops.

Im curious what alaska has because that is about as exciting as my life is.

So houston rains more BIGLY. Houston rains 5 inches at a time and you get to watch all of the Louisiana people come save us in their swamp boats

Anchorage has been raining for three straight weeks but rarely half an inch a day. Mostly off and on sprinkling, but a few days have rained more (like an inch). I’ve been consistently hiking this entire time and I’m not exactly young with great knees or a mountaineer type, so the trails aren’t saturated if that gives you any indication

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Kaveh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So houston rains more BIGLY. Houston rains 5 inches at a time and you get to watch all of the Louisiana people come save us in their swamp boats

Anchorage has been raining for three straight weeks but rarely half an inch a day. Mostly off and on sprinkling, but a few days have rained more (like an inch). I’ve been consistently hiking this entire time and I’m not exactly young with great knees or a mountaineer type, so the trails aren’t saturated if that gives you any indication

Its almost like a falling mist the rain? What has been the best hike?

[Kaveh]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its almost like a falling mist the rain? What has been the best hike?

I liked savage alpine trail in Denali National park. Seeing mt McKinley, even from a distance, is breathtaking. Plus we went at 0700 and there was no one there. Awesome piece of nature

My wife liked Grace ridge that you have to take a boat to from Homer. That was really cool as well but the first two miles are 8 foot tall ferns and mosquitoes so dense they’re on your eyelids. I thought I was in Jurassic park. Once we cleared that (9 mile hike), it was stunning.

Neither of those was close to anchorage. In the anchorage area, I’d say eagle and symphony lakes