VALDEZ, AK JUNE13

At Glennallen, we could drive to Anchorage on the Glenn Highway or drive to Valdez.

So, since we are so close, Valdez here we come. We are taking the Richardson Highway, Alaska's first highway,1898 gold rush trail, upgraded wagon trail 1910, paved in 1957, that connects Fairbanks and Valdez.  A good road, but we drove slow, 40mph.  Beautiful scenery!   About 120 miles to Valdez.

                                   Alaska Pipeline  800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

Still Permafrost humps in the road

3 days of travel on Rollercoaster is quite enough

                                                                     Pipeline

Lots of bikers making this run

Lowe River

                                                           Still lots of curves

Going up and over

                                                         Worthington Glacier

                                                              Lots of snow

                                                       Drive in/ walk to glacier

                                                               Waterfalls

                                                Still frozen lake

                                                               Here we are

                                                             Bundled up--cold here

                             Blue color of the ice--the weight of the ice squeezed out the air
                                                    and the refracted light is blue

                                                      Up we go, over the pass

                                                          Thompson Pass

                                                             Down we go

                                                              What a view!

                                                   VALDEZ

                                              Eagles Rest RV Park view out of our rig

Not very full on our arrival; but, quickly filled

                                      Here we are in the valley with mountains all around--Alaska!
                                    Glad we took the time to go to Valdez--beautiful!

Tomorrow:  Glacier cruise on the LULU BELLE 75' Motor yacht