Valdez Trip

Valdez Trip


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valdez033P7287962 After lunch, and before the hike, Kate and I stopped off at the Crooked Creek salmon spawning area. There were a lot of salmon at the end of their journey... valdez033P7287962
valdez034P7287965 ...trying to fertilize the eggs (the pink round things). valdez034P7287965
valdez035P7287966 After the fertilizing, the fish basically swim till they die. valdez035P7287966
valdez036P7287967 The one with the reddish backbone is a pink salmon, we think. valdez036P7287967
valdez037P7287977 After looking at a couple maps, I think this is the Hogback Glacier as seen from the Old Valdez town site. valdez037P7287977
valdez038P7287979 This was the location of the old town of Valdez that was flooded out and destroyed by the 1964 earthquake. The new town is about 2 miles west of here. valdez038P7287979
valdez039P7287980 A shot taken from the original Valdez site looking toward the new town site in the distance. valdez039P7287980
valdez040P7287982 Kate and I finally headed to the beginning of the day's hike - the Keystone Canyon 1899 Pack Trail. We began the hike at the Bridal Veil Falls pullout, and hiked the trail in the reverse order that it actually stated to hike it. valdez040P7287982
valdez041P7287983 A close-up of the part in the Bridal Veil Falls where the water goes over the brink. valdez041P7287983
valdez042P7280013 Kate took a picture of me taking many pictures of the Bridal Veil Falls. valdez042P7280013
valdez043P7288004 I took one of her along the trail. valdez043P7288004
valdez044P7288007 Another cool and long stream and waterfall the leads into the Lowe River. valdez044P7288007
valdez045P7280016 Kate took this shot of the Lowe Rive with the Richardson Highway nearby, both going through the Keystone Canyon. valdez045P7280016
valdez046P7280017 A close-up of the meandering Lowe River. valdez046P7280017
valdez047P7280019 Kate snapped a shot of me crossing Horsetail Falls Creek. valdez047P7280019
valdez048P7280028 Valdez has a lot of black bears, so camping and hiking in the region is always an adventure if you happen to run into these animals. At one point along the trail Kate was leading the hike, when she turned the corner and saw the black feature on the trail in the distance. valdez048P7280028
valdez049P7280027 It turned out to just be a mound of mud from a fallen tree, but from a distance, it did looked like a black bear. Fortunately, no bears were spotted during the entire trip to Valdez. valdez049P7280027
valdez050P7280029 Some parts of the trail were areas where one could practice the limbo. Kate took this action shot of me ducking under the tree. valdez050P7280029
valdez051P7280037 We thought this was cool how the tree looks to be swallowing up the boulder. valdez051P7280037
valdez052P7288012 Once we came to the end of the vegetated trail, we began the trek back up the Richardson Highway to the car. Kate stopped to take a photo of the pretty flowers... valdez052P7288012
valdez053P7280039 ...She even got one of the bees in the shot as well. valdez053P7280039
valdez054P7288013 Of course, I took shots along the way of the cool geology in the area. There were a lot of beaten up rocks from the mountain building, glaciation, and man-made road building processes. I didn't get close enough to check it out, but from a distanc eit looks like some metamorphic siltstone gneiss, but not too sure. valdez054P7288013
valdez055P7288019 Though the Bridal Veil Falls and, the soon to be shown, Horsetail Falls where cool to see, this water fall that runs right into the Lowe River had the greatest discharge of the three. I also like the dipping rock bed, or joint, that slopes right into the river. valdez055P7288019
valdez056P7288020 A closer view of the previous photo. valdez056P7288020
valdez057P7288022 Nice look at the beat-up, jointed, bedded, and fractured metamorphic section of rock. valdez057P7288022
valdez058P7288025 We were within about a mile of the car, when I took this shot up the Richardson Highway at the Horsetail Falls (left) and Bridal Veil Falls (right) flowing into the Lowe River. valdez058P7288025
valdez059P7288026 Another shot looking at the jointed metamorphic sections that make up the Keystone Canyon. valdez059P7288026
valdez060P7288027 Here is a shot of Horsetail Falls. valdez060P7288027
valdez061P7280042 After working up an appetite during the hike, we headed back into Valdez for dinner. After dinner, we took a walk along the fishing piers. The week we went down was the halibut fishing derby. The halibut are the white fish hanging on the hooks. valdez061P7280042
valdez062P7280045 One boat even pulled in a shark. Kate heard one of the guys say they can cath about one shark a day when they head out to fish. valdez062P7280045
valdez063P7280058 From the piers, we headed to work off dinner by taking a slow hike along the Dock Point Trail. I took this shot of a flower with a waterfall in the distance. valdez063P7280058
valdez064P7298029 On Friday, July 29, 2005, Kate and I took the popular Stan Stephens cruise to see the Columbia and Meares Glaciers in the Prince William Sound. The large boat seen here is the Valdez Spirit that we took on the trip. valdez064P7298029
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