Thats It!

My Alaska summer is over. Tomorrow I'll hit the road and head south back to Utah, beating the snow. For the past three weeks I have been watching the snow slowly creep lower and lower down the mountain. 5500 feet, 4000, and two days ago there was fresh snow on the summit of the Klondike Highway at 3292 feet.

The leaves on the trees have been turning for four weeks now. But I'll be turning back ecological time seeming how Alaska is slow to thaw in the spring and quick to freeze in the fall. Usually three or four weeks ahead of where I'm going.

It will be nice to feel the sun on a regular basis, with out worrying about when the rain is going to come next. I will miss this simple life, though; hauling people up a mountain, telling the same old stories, being able to walk every where, knowing exactly where everyone is or where they are going to be, people not worrying who they are with or what they look like.

Goodbye Alaska, hello Utah