Camping and stream fishing

Hillary and myself (and Stout) met up with Sam and Christina Friday afternoon out at Cowee Creek for some Coho fishing and camping.  Hillary ended up limiting out with two, while I broke one off before we lost two of the magic lures and could no longer get any to bite.
After a beautiful night of camping on the beach we tried our luck again in the morning with only dollies and brookies taking the hook.  In the afternoon we hiked up the Dan Moller trail picking blueberries and checking out the sites.  The new FS cabin is looking great!
On Sunday we went for a 3 hour run with Stout from Eaglecrest back to Douglas on the Treadwell Ditch trail.  Washed out bridges, treefall, and lots of rocks makes this a non-trivial run.  Exercise turns Stout into a good dog!

Fightin' the silver in Cowee (it is a little cloudy due to the small glacial influence upstream)

One of the 6 lb or so silvers

Fisherlady with her catch

Hooked up for the moment

Mendenhall glacier time lapse

This is a time lapse video from the terminus of the Mendenhall glacier from Aug 14 to 23, 2010.  You can see a large calving event of an iceberg, then keep an eye on the waterfall next to the glacier.  There is another calving event right next to the waterfall and the whole waterfall shifts position.  The falls may look small but believe me it is pretty enormous and powerful when you are standing next to it.

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A couple nice days ... in August?

Stout's new spot in the boat

Pink eye, half eaten nose, but still playing on the beach

A couple more pictures from the glacier

Sliding down Mendenhall

Hillary was fortunate enough to take a trip through Tracy Arm during one of her overnight sampling excursions

Icebergs in the fjord

The latest and biggest silver to date ...

Stout on the beach ...

Workin' on the glacier

Hillary was able to get out of work a couple hours early today to ride up with some folks from the lab to the Mendenhall glacier to sample some water.  It was a great day to be on the ice!  In the 80s at sea level and it was jacket worthy on the glacier with the wind.

Flying in over the Mendenhall wetlands

Lena Point, Shelter Island, Pt. Retreat, and the Chilkat Range

Near one of the glaciar surface rivers

The barren land

A large pool in one of the rivers with lots of sediment and algae ... life on the glacier!

A small but deep blue hole filled with delicious water

A look at the crevasses from above on the way out

Mendenhall lake and some icebergs

Stout, fish, and videos now embedded correctly

What a weekend! 80 degrees, sun, and no wind. I did a road bike race with Kevin this morning and felt how out of shape I am, while Kevin took home the glory. This afternoon we hiked up to Cropley Lake at Eaglecrest with Stout and gathered another 4 pounds of blueberries.

Stout and Hillary posing

Stout's new name tag that we got a week or so ago

The weigh in last week (36 pounds).  He is almost too big for the scale!

A 10 lb silver and some pinks from Sat.

Stout digging a hole at Sandy beach

He is starting to be a better swimmer

Playing tag around a log with teeth a flyin'

Harvesting Sockeye Salmon

Here are some pictures of some field work and a day down at Sweetheart Creek.  You are allowed to net up to 25 Sockeye Salmon per day per Juneau resident.  The Pink Salmon are in the stream really heavy too so you need to weed them out to get the nice Reds.  In about 12 hours of cast netting we ended up with 36 sockeye and we released around 800-1200 pink salmon.  We had griz within 50 yards, who were also fishing.  I went down there with Eran, Kevin, and Mike.  Since it was a week day (to miss the crowds) Hillary was stuck working :(      Thanks to Mike for the pictures!

Carrying Stout across a stream on the way down from Lemon Creek collecting water samples

Sunset at Outer Point

Sea Lions lounging in Lynn Canal

Sweetheart Creek

One of our companions for the day ...

To conserve energy we used two people to throw the cast net

A male brown bear stomping on salmon

A net full of pinks with one sockeye

The stream was just packed with Pink salmon.  The most tiring part of the day was getting all the pinks out of the net in pursuit of the sockeye

Pulling in the goods

One of the stringers of sockeye

 

 Video of Eran and I cast netting for salmon.  All of them were Pinks.

 A female brown bear with two cubs grabbing fish right next to us

Then lots of filleting, smoking, and packaging ...

"Fishing" and blueberries

Yesterday after work Hillary Stout and myself went up to Eaglecrest to gather some more blueberries (another 3.5 lbs).  One the way home we stopped at Peterson Creek on Douglas to check out the Chum and Pink salmon.  I was fortunate to land a decaying Pink salmon and an at least 12 pound Chum salmon.

Hooked up!

I managed to hook this monster from the trail bridge.  After a good long fight chasing him up and down stream he came off the hook right at my feet where I promptly kicked him into the mud on shore.  Once he bit me twice with his huge teeth and we got our picture it was back into the water for this Chum.

Today we made blueberry Jam, syrup, fruit leather, and fruit spread .... yum!

Busy summer ...

Lets see ... what has happened since June 27th ...

More halibut fishing, 4th of July, my mom visited, blueberries, silver and pink salmon fishing, more field work, Stout is big now, Hillary's parents visit, Mt. Roberts summit hike, ...

Salmonberry picking around the apartment ... now in a wine

Stout on the scale a couple weeks ago ... he likes it!

Stout, Hillary and the whale

Taking a nap

Taking a nap II

Hiking up Mount Roberts

Coming down Roberts around Gastineau Peak

In the clouds

Left over cornice

Hillary sliding down Roberts with Juneau 2500ft below

Playing with Stout

Randy and the Stout man

Mendenhall Glacier

3 pinks and a silver from Pt. Retreat

Stout's face

Stout sleeping awkwardly

Hillary's work flight back from Skagway

Another plane view - Eagle glacier

Kayaking on Mendenhall Lake

Team picture

Hillary battling what we thought was a big salmon

Instead it was a 25 lb halibut

Stout watching the action

Stout vs. Halibut

Sampling at the terminus of Lemon Glacier

It was a tough climb getting back out!

Field work breakfast with blueberries, huckleberries, and salmonberries from around the site

Stout's favorite spot on the boat

Fishing at Funter Bay the other day with Mike ... 10 lb silver

A 12 pound silver at Point Retreat the same day

5 silvers and about 6 er 7 pinks that day (kept 2 for jerky)

We made some blueberry syrup tonight ... looking forward to some french toast in the am.