Just south of Chitkat Pass is a river and a mountain, both named Three Guardsmen and below is an image of the clouds abutting the mountain. The peaks appear so tall (but not compared to NM) and the snow was beautiful and all along the route clouds were butting up to the peaks – interesting something so light can’t simply rise above the solid rock faced mountain.
On the way out of town we stopped to take images of the fishing wheel. The Indian tribal members can fish any river or stream and use a fishing wheel. As you can tell it is movable and it rotates around like a scoop which picks up the fish, at the top it deposits them into the funnel like canvas and they are stored underneath. On our way into town a man was harvesting the fish from the container below the fishing wheel. Interesting.
Within a 13 mile corridor we saw four bears—three on the way south and this one that John shot on the way back. The grizzly was seating dandelions!
Great day. Tomorrow we head north again and perhaps cross the border. Internet and phone service will be very difficult until we reach Fairbanks.
I never would have thought that bears liked to eat dandelions. Kind of like Ferdinand the Bull, huh?
ReplyDeleteThe clouds are really neat. It seems as though the sky is 'lower' there than here.
Interesting fishing concept too. I wonder if they end up with stuff in the wheel that they don't want.