Talkeetna and the Alaska Railroad

We had been in Alaska for two months. We had seen the rainforests, glaciers, and rugged coastline of the Kenai Peninsula. Now, with summer over and the days shrinking, me and my family headed north into Interior Alaska to experience the brief autumn of the Far North. First stop? The small town of Talkeetna, AK.

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Connor Malson
Whittier to Seward: Alaska's Coast

After spending a week in Girdwood, we had been looking ahead at places to go and due to there being no available campgrounds we were considering going straight to Seward or Cooper Landing. But I found a small place to pull off and camp situated right on a beautiful shimmering pond.

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Connor Malson
Anchorage: City by the Mountains

After a month of nearly constant travel all the way up the Alaska Highway, we got a little burnt out. So when we made it to Anchorage, the biggest city in Alaska(and the biggest city this far north for thousands of miles), we decided to take it easy.

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Connor Malson
Lassen Volcanic National Park

A mountain. A volcano. A story. Hidden in the backbone of the Sierra Nevada, Lassen Volcanic National Park is an amazing combination of extremes. Hot and cold. High and low. Big and small. The moment you stop into the park, you are immersed in a variety of wildlife and a sense of how small humans really are compared to this world.

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Jack Malson
Joshua Tree National Park

The desert seems to stretch on almost forever, the mountains bare, the riverbeds dried up. As you follow the road winding up, up, up, you enter almost a new world. Huge rocks rise out of the ground like giant fists. Shrubs cover the dry ground. The sky seems to be ten times bigger. Lizards scuttle through the cracks in the rocks. And Joshua Trees reach up into the sky like open arms.

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