Ketchikan, Alaska. Part Two.

April, 2008

We were able to go flightseeing with one of the only female pilots in the area. She took us over Misty Fjords and we got to see the park in its earliest phases of spring breakup. I was eyeing some amazing 3000 foot granite walls for future climbing missions but it looks like it would take a week or month long dry spell to make them climbable. In Ketchikan this is just about as likely as them telling the cruise ships to go back to Scandanavia. We were able to see the differences between a clear cut forest that had regrown over about 70 years and an original, old growth forest. We also saw corporate cuts Vs. native owned cuts.