After spending weeks in interior Yukon and Alaska, we’re heading down to the coast . We had to cross a lofty coastal mountain range that gets 80 feet of snow in the winter.We passed several glacial waterfalls. Passing through snow covered peaks crossing over to the coastOur campsite in Valdez, we are one block from the ocean. An interesting waterfront with a mix of restaurants and commercial fishing businesses Those are the storage tanks for the Alaskan Pipeline which ends in Valdez bringing oil from the North Slope oilfields 800 miles north,.
Valdez in a major recreational and commercial fishing port
That’s a sleeping snowshoe rabbit in the foreground, the town was filled with them, Fisherman wheeling a huge halibut along the waterfront Filleting a 80 pound halibut