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August 5, 2014
Day 17 - Denali National Park, AK to Anchorage, AK (Mon 8/4/14)
Above: View of the Chugach Mountains looking SouthEast from Margaret Eagan Sullivan Park.
Additional photos in the Extended Entry.
(Mon 8/4/14)
Update: I am alive and well and resting peacefully in Anchorage, Alaska, a large city on the southern coast of Alaska.
Starting Odometer: 20,267
Ending Odometer: 20,544
Miles Driven Today: 277
Miles Driven This Trip: 5,891
Here's a map of our ride today.
I'm riding with my buddy Ben again. We're trying to find chain/sprockets for the KTM, as it is having a major issue with the chain, which is currently at its service limit.
Ben showed up at my little Denali RV Park and Motel, and asked for a hose to clean his bike. I pointed him to a "non-potable" water hose, and he started washing down his bike. he commented on how the mud on the rims could throw the wheel out of balance. So, I sprayed the hose on my rims, and noticed that quite a bit of mud was caked on the back rims.
Then, we take off, and now I'm driving down the highway, and it feels like the bike is going to come apart. This is because I got the rear wheel out of balance by washing the mud of 1/2 of the rear rim. 30 miles later, we stop for gas, and they have a hose, so I was the rear wheel better so that there's no mud on it. Now, it rides smooth again.
Above: "Combat Fishing" in Ship Creek. On the north side of Anchorage, fishermen stand shoulder to shoulder, fishing for "silvers". They're fishing for Coho (Silver) Salmon, but this is an artificial hatchery run, stocked by the Alaska Department of Fish and Fur.
Above: "Combat Fishing" in Ship Creek. On the north side of Anchorage, fishermen stand shoulder to shoulder, fishing for "silvers". They're fishing for Coho (Silver) Salmon, but this is an artificial hatchery run, stocked by the Alaska Department of Fish and Fur.
Above: "Combat Fishing" in Ship Creek. On the north side of Anchorage, fishermen stand shoulder to shoulder, fishing for "silvers". They're fishing for Coho (Silver) Salmon, but this is an artificial hatchery run, stocked by the Alaska Department of Fish and Fur.
Above: Some flowers in Anchorage. Ben was giving me a hard time for shooting these.
Above: Some flowers in Anchorage. Ben was giving me a hard time for shooting these.
Above: Margaret Eagan Sullivan Park, looking across the Westchester Lagoon.
View of the Chugach Mountains looking SouthEast from Margaret Eagan Sullivan Park.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 5, 2014 at 4:57 AM
Comments
When I was up in Anchorage, they called that "Combat Fishing".
Posted by: Rob on August 6, 2014 at 10:58 AM
That's about what it looked like. Pretty intense.
Posted by: Rob Kiser 
on August 9, 2014 at 12:22 AM
The salmon fishing pics look like a Norman Rockwell painting and would make a great puzzle.:)
Posted by: sl on August 18, 2014 at 9:23 AM