Thursday, January 6, 2011

Girdwood Photos catch up

Gav got covered in snow over night

Drivers side first so we can start the warm up process

lots of snow

There we go - don't you just love the reflectors

Just the roof to go

The petrol saga begins?

Can you see the call button???

On our way to the coast

The sunrise of the coastline 

Is that the ocean????

Yeah - just a wee bit frozen

Really really frozen

Coastal road

OMG - just stunning

Frozen waterfalls on other side of the road

Yep - in the rock face

Road to Girdwood

???? We try to follow the road signs.

Gorgeous!!!

This may look like water - but its ice!

Told you

More snow coming

Elona's fascination with snow covered trees

More snow covered trees

Now we have a combo of snow covered trees and power lines whilst snowing

Made it - Yeah

View from car park wait till we are on the mountain

Base of mountain - full powder promise

Slalom - kiddies

Really nice winter skirt - have not found any in the shops

View from base towards the car park

more

Panoramic towards car park from base

Slalom finish line

Snow covered trees really - Megs is just a decoy

Told you

It is becoming an obsession

Elona by fire

Only box jumps - located at base of mountain

Tim - helpful Alaskan

Bell Lady

Snow covered hospital

Real Snow Flakes - Like in the movies

Close up

This one is for Dana

Apartments on the way to Aleyaska

Road to Aleyaska (Trees????)

OK

HMMMMMM

Front of Aleyaska Resort - World Fire

Very Nifty

Megs and Nutcracker

Frozen bear

Look Moose

WATCH OUT

Tram

Crazy wedding party

Us on packed tram

View from the top

Almost the top

Still further

Us at the nearly top

Stunning and no trees

This was not photoshopped 

View to the east

Megs - view to the west

West and again not photoshopped - it is the hat!

AHHHHHH

Megs on the way down the mountain - by tram

Jack Bauer - escape hatch

Not Jack Bauer

View from resort foyer

Check out the polar bear

Walrus - very protective creatures apparently

The scenery is just breathtaking

As is the car park - Gav where are you????

We were not parked that long

The Two Mushys - closed until 5pm

Welcome only when it is open

Hot cider at the Girdwood roadhouse

inside the roadhouse

Here you go Patrick - Halibut

ready?

All good

Backward glance at mountain on our way back to Anchorage

Talkeetna Photos to catch-up

This is Gav and Megs

This is Megs informing me that I might not be able to use the side mirrors!

Steering wheel a tad cold - here we go!!!

Preeety

Crossing bridge out of Anchorage

Always mountains

See

It is an American State but NOT Texas

Mt McKinley - stunning

Cabin - check out the stairs!

Talkeetna house

Museum

This was the never ending gift store

Bear on ceiling

Rasta Moose

This is where we had lunch

Reindeer Chilli with beans and Reindeer is NOT a brand name!

Sorry Mandel but Rudolf tastes really good!

This is Biscuits and gravy with Rudolf sausage

Multi use flag!

Frozen cookie jar

Main St Talkeetna

River launch site

House Elona wants: one in backcountry Alaska and one in Africa!!

Elona's love affair continues!

Elona gets some sugar!!

Mt McKinley

Local artist (pastels - very nice) he too promised moose - saw one the other day - yeah right!! says Elona

Ahhh huh!

Sunset

Blog Up Date - 6th January 2011

Still navigating the blog site:

Things we have changed -

1. Events are now out of order for anything proceeding today - all photos will now be included in the posts not as separate pages (we are only allowed 10 of these and ran out rather quickly).

2. We hope we have made it easier to post comments - you should no longer require a Gmail related account to identify yourself to add a comment.  If you have difficulties please let us know.

3. We love to hear your comments - so please give it a try.

Everything should be in order from this point on and we hope this explains why our photos from previous pages are now showing up again under todays date.