Posts by Connor Malson
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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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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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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Saguaro National Park

The Sonoran Desert is a complex, unique ecosystem. Spreading across southern Arizona for miles, vast yet not empty. The crowning jewel of the Sonoran Desert is the massive, long-lived saguaro cactus. Tall and many-armed, it is an iconic symbol of the American Southwest.

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Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone is unique yet unstable. It is a land of geysers and boiling hot springs, mud pots and red bacteria mats. It is a land full of all kinds of green life in the summer, and frozen under deep snow in the winter. It is a land with a spirit to it.

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