Thanks guys, I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures. Alaska is an amazing place, if you ever get the chance to go up, take it.
Actually, when I tell people I go up every year, they look at me like I said I was going to the moon. Getting there from So Cal is really no different than me going to the east coast. It's a 2 1/2 hour flight to Seattle, than a 3 1/2 hour flight from Seattle to Anchorage. Airfare on Alaska Airlines is 5 or 6 hundred if you buy it in Sept when it's on sale.
Get to Anchorage, rent a car, and drive north or south. Denali is a 4 hour drive north, the Kenai Peninsula (Seward, Soldotna, or Homer) is 3 hours south.
If you're a sporting clays shooter, going up any other time but when they're holding the state championship (always the last weekend in July) doesn't make any sense. Next year the 5-stand and sub gauge events are at Birchwood (20 - 25 minutes from Anchorage) and the Prelim, Main and FITASC are at Grouse Ridge in Wasilla (20 - 25 minutes from Birchwood).
If you need any help setting up a trip, feel free to ping me. As usual, I have no official connection to the events, I just love to go up.
A word about this picture. I must have taken 10 shots of the same thing, then just stood there for 15 minutes just staring at it. This is what Alaska represents to me.
