The Alaska trip/photo

[rocknrollgirl]

I posted my Christmas card picture for 2006, me and the DH in a kayak in Alaska. Several people have asked about the picture and the trip, so I thought I would pull it out of the Christams card thread.

The trip was amazing. I won it as a sweepstakes in Backpacker magazine. The prize paid for about half the trip, and gave us the coupon for the outfitter. I really wanted to do a multisport trip that mixed backpacking and kayaking and rafting, but we could not make it work, so we "settled" on a week long kayak trip through Prince William sound.

It turned out to be the trip of a lifetime. We had an amazing group. All guys and me...what else is new. They were all terrific. The guides we amazing. We camped and paddled for 6 days. Because we had a very strong group, we did some really big mileage days 20 plus miles. On day three of the trip, we were at the end of the planned intinerary, so we did extra.

We saw, orcas, and humpbacks, sea loins and sea otters, baby seal, harbor seals, bear, puffin, eagles, kitwiks(sp). And the glaciers...oh they were incredible.

We only had one day of rain. It was just perfect. I will post a few more of my pics.