On to Valdez

Well, today is Saturday and it's been 5 months and one day since this odyssey started. The wildfire is still burning west of Tok, after it started 5:00 pm Wednesday. The cause was apparently dry lightning. The area covered by it is over 2,000 acres. The water bombers have pretty well worked non stop, as well as the ground crews. It jumped the highway again yesterday. There are 67 wildfires in the state now affecting 74,000 acres. The top pic is smoke that drifted 10 miles from the fire, to the campground yesterday morning ( Friday). We are now on the way to Valdez, the site of the oil spill from the wrecked ocean tanker Exxon Valdez back in the 80's. We may go fishing on a charter there if there are fishing running. The second photo is on Mt. Sanford at 14,000+ feet. The last is of more boring mountainous landscape.