1. Anchorage, Alaska October 2010

2. Flying into Anchorage View of the Cook Inlet and Sleeping Lady

3. Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet Layers upon layers of far-off mountains

5. Kincaid Park and the mud flats

6. City of Anchorage Delaney Park - A block from my aunt’s home

7. Cook Inlet - Mt. Redoubt is the volcanic peak on the left which recently erupted in 2009

8. Saturday morning flag football and soccer – Delaney Park

9. Scandinavian bazaar at the Sons of Norway lodge

10. Chugach State Park – Viewpoint from Glen Alps trailhead

12. Denali (aka Mt. McKinley) on the right

13. The Sleeping Lady and the city of Anchorage

15. I savor the view of the Sleeping Lady

17. Hiking Powerline Pass – at the Glen Alps trailhead

21. Looking towards Denali and the city

23. Moose-spotting

24. My cousin Elizabeth counts at eight bull moose and one female. Powerline Pass is a superb location to spot moose mating rituals during the autumn months.

25. The female munches while a bull moose naps

26. A very brave (or foolish?) photographer catches the action as the bull moose begin to approach each other to challenge for the female.

27. Two bull moose (on left) engage in the ritual of “rutting”, in which they tangle up their antlers in a power struggle for the right to approach the female.

31. A frosty mid-day hike – temperatures were in the 40’s Fahrenheit in the sun; colder in the shade.

35. Driving into the city

37. Driving the Seward Highway

39. Potter’s Marsh

43. Beluga Point

44. Elizabeth looks in vain for beluga whales

53. A glacier

59. A “ghost forest” – one of many along the highway killed by the devastating 1964 earthquake. Tsunami waves triggered by tremors washed away buildings and salt water killed the trees.

60. A house destroyed by the tsunamis of the 1964 earthquake.

61. Another “ghost forest”

62. More glaciers in the Turnagain Arm

65. Chocolate fountain at the Alaska Wild Berry Products store in Anchorage.

66. Flying out of Anchorage – glaciers below