Friday, October 3, 2014

epic trip to alaska

Curt has summers off now that he's working for an elementary school. So, he and the kids spent a month up in AK visiting family and exploring.


Curt's best friend growing up, Kurt K, and his wife spend several weeks each summer at fish Camp on the Kenai river. Curt, Matt and Kyra were invited to come visit for several days. They had a blast. Matt fly-fished, Kyra beach combed for shells, and Curt got to reconnect with old friends.

Eskimo olympics in Fairbanks. Matt and Kyra were very excited to get to visit the competition. Look center photo there is a man in the air from the blanket toss. He has on an orange and yellow shirt.

Kyra and Matt playing in the children's garden at the University of Fairbanks.

Shooting old guns with Uncle Bob in Fairbanks.





Hanging out with the sled dogs in Denali National Park



Hiking to the waterfalls in Eagle River.

Hiking with cousins. Curt has two of his brothers still living in Alaska. Matt and Kyra loved hanging out with their cousins!

Hatchers pass, and old gold mine. This is one of the Chambers Family favorite places to visit!



Matt, Kyra and cousin Keeyan.



What a great photo!

On the ferry to Cordova to go meet Margee.


Cordova - this town exits to process seafood caught in the Copper River and the Gulf. You can only reach it by boat or plane. Margee took a long weekend from work and flew from Spokane to Cordova to have a family holiday. Know for lots of rain, we mostly had beautiful sunny sky's.




sheridan glacier was a quick mile or so hike to get to.



Copper river - the delta is HUGE!

Beautiful mountains - the back drop to one of our fishing expeditions.

Fishing

Salmon in the river.

Curt, his mom and two of his brothers, Scott and Aaron

Kyra dressing up with a cousin - they were like two peas in a pod.



boat

Here's some pics from early summer on the boat.

There's a pair of bald eagles that like to hang out in buttonhook bay.


And a family of geese.


Kyra and Mat sunning them selves on Mermaid Rock.


Curt and Matt kyaking.

hoopfest

Matt and some buddies opted to play hoopfest again this year. They had fun. He s=decided that BB wasn't his sport.