As you will have already seen from recent posts to this blog, the pan-handle of Alaska is a truly wild landscape, and this post focuses especially on the mountain scenery that haunts this coastline. The accompanying pictures depict a landscape of high and rugged mountains (some higher than nay in the European Alps), snow and ice, occasional dense vegetation, deep fjord-like waterways, often grey skies with abundant rain and snow, islands dotting the horizon, occasional volcanoes, and so on.
Mount Edgecumbe, shown in the next picture, is a dormant volcano near Sitka and was the subject many years ago of a splendid April fool's joke. Conspirators took some old tyres to the top, set light to them, and when folks woke up on the first of April they thought that an eruption was in progress!
I love this next picture of the 'New' Eddystone rock in the Behm Canal near Ketchikan. It was so named by Vancouver when searching for the fabled Northwest Passage but doesn't look anything like the real Eddystone rock near Plymouth in the UK.
And a little further on the landscape began to resemble a stack of Norwegian fjords as the waters narrowed and the sides of mountains became more vertical, complete with many cascading waterfalls. Appropriately, the weather closed in with many hillsides swathed in mists and rain beginning to fall, creating an unforgettable image of an almost haunted and mysterious - but very beautiful - place.
I hope these images promote within you an irresistible urge to visit this beautiful and highly remote part of the world. It's highly recommended.
AS
Mount Edgecumbe, shown in the next picture, is a dormant volcano near Sitka and was the subject many years ago of a splendid April fool's joke. Conspirators took some old tyres to the top, set light to them, and when folks woke up on the first of April they thought that an eruption was in progress!
I love this next picture of the 'New' Eddystone rock in the Behm Canal near Ketchikan. It was so named by Vancouver when searching for the fabled Northwest Passage but doesn't look anything like the real Eddystone rock near Plymouth in the UK.
And a little further on the landscape began to resemble a stack of Norwegian fjords as the waters narrowed and the sides of mountains became more vertical, complete with many cascading waterfalls. Appropriately, the weather closed in with many hillsides swathed in mists and rain beginning to fall, creating an unforgettable image of an almost haunted and mysterious - but very beautiful - place.
I hope these images promote within you an irresistible urge to visit this beautiful and highly remote part of the world. It's highly recommended.
AS
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