Anchorage

This past weekend I went on a trip to Anchorage with my friend Kristen, her boyfriend, and some other people. I always thought that Fairbanks and Anchorage looked 'close' on a map, but maps of Alaska are misleading, this place is too big!!! It was about a 7 hour drive each way, but it wasn't that bad (when the sun was up) because the views are so amazing! Also saw a moose and two bald eagles on the drive, wooo!

Anchorage is the biggest city in AK (it's not big) and it's surrounded by huge snowy mountains, and there's also bay areas on the south side. It's way more pretty than Fairbanks. Weather is a bit warmer too for some reason. We stopped for a few photo ops along the highway, and noticed that you could see the low tide taking along all the ice chunks if you look closely, it was pretty cool.

Along the highway

We arrived late on Friday night, and on Saturday went skiing at Alyeska Ski Resort which is AWESOME. Hands down best place I've ever skiied (sorry Breckenridge). You literally are at the top of a mountain that's a mile high and you can see the ocean and all the surrounding mountains...it's so beautiful. And it's just a great facility, tons of lifts and stuff, and the runs are crazeeyyy steep, I was scared at first. The weather was great which made it even more fun.

I lost a screw in my binding and randomly met a rental tech from DUBUQUE to fix it. Small world huh.

Alyeska (phone pic)

After snowboarding all day, we just hung out at the house, Kristen's friend Kaley made us dinner. I ATE CARIBOU!!!!! Two bites to be exact. It was really good, but I didn't want to get a stomach ache. It tasted like deer. I've noticed a lot people up here eat wild game, people in IA do a lot too, but hardly at all in the college population (it seems like). Anyway I like being able to enjoy a little protein from a humanely harvested animal that lived a free and wonderful life (commercial farming is the devil) okay I'm done trying to brainwash you. I have eaten salmon and caribou now, I still need to try moose!!