Far North Bicentennial Park
Friday 9AM by Patrick Whitesell
Hey all - how about we use this site to share info on what areas (Hatcher Pass, Lazy Mtn, Anchorage Bowl, Gird, Portage) are or are not smoky? Seems like we're all hunting around trying to figure out where to recreate without hacking out a lung.
Chester Creek Trail
Monday Aug 5 by John McCormick
A black bear spotted on trails between RJS (last night) and Chester Creek Trail (this morning) east of Goose Lake. It left the trail shortly after I started talking to it and putting my arms overhead to appeal bigger.
Prospect Heights trailhead
Tuesday Jul 30 by Meg
Found today a pair of hiking poles in the Prospect Heights parking lot. If they are yours let me know. Email: mkurtagh@hotmail.com
Bird to Gird Trail
Tuesday Jul 9 by devo
Cycled Indian to Girdwood. 82F, moderate smoke. Few cyclists.
Far North Bicentennial Park
Sunday Jul 7 by amie
FOUND KEYSubaru car key with star medallion keychain on Homestead trail. Email: mseima@hotmail.com
Crow Pass from Girdwood Side
Saturday Jul 6 by Loraine
Trail in very good condition today; the usual swarms of black flies at the parking lot and some during the first mile. Trail has not yet been brushed in anticipation of the Crow Pass Crossing trail race, but no problems encountered. Eight goats seen resting in a small patch of snow about 2 miles (?) in -- look for them to your left as you ascend. We went only as far as the toe of Raven Glacier a short distance past the Pass high point.
Crow Pass Trailhead
Saturday Jun 29 by Loraine
Linda, the following was posted on the Crow Pass Facebook page about 1 p.m. today, Sat., 6/29/19: 6/29/19 Trail Update: just a heads up that Eagle River water levels are high right now. Water height at ford site is pretty much waist high on most people. Use caution, take your time crossing, cross in the morning if you can (water levels tend to be a little lower then). If you arenât comfortable crossing, then turn around and go back the way you came. Be safe everyone!
Raven Glacier
Saturday Jun 29 by Linda
Does anyone know what the trail conditions are to Raven Glacier?
Girdwood Berry Pass Trail
Saturday Jun 22 by TC
We encountered a black bear sow and cub in the subalpine zone about 2 miles from Berry Pass over the weekend. This is the same location that another hiker reported seeing the bears the day before. My guess is they are hot and staying close to the large fan of snow below the waterfall and enjoying the foraging in the adjacent meadow.
Kincaid Park
Thursday Jun 20 by Red8wop
Very aggressive cow moose w newborn calf Good Greff Nw section. Charged
Hillside
Thursday Jun 20 by HCB
Found a Car key on Spencerâs around 2:30pm today. We left it by the Hilltop xc ski TH, on the sign board.
Hillside
Wednesday Jun 19 by TC
There have been a number of black bear sightings in the mid-Hillside neighborhoods adjacent to the Hillside ski trails over the past four weeks. Everything from a large lone black bear tearing down bee boxes in a neighbors yard, to subadults playing in somebodies yard, and to a juvenile licking a neighbors outdoor patio table, and a recreationist getting bluff charged by a subadult black bear adjacent to the pedestrian bridge on the multi-use trail that runs adjacent to Abbott. This is a tough time of year for all wildlife. Travel in groups, make noise, don't listen to your headphones, and always carry a bear deterrent in a readily available place on your person (belt or chest harness).
Hillside Singletrack Trails
Wednesday Jun 19 by Julian Mason
Someone has been putting anti-Pebble stickers on the STA signs. It is a mistake to use the STA signs as political billboards, so I removed the stickers. I will continue to remove political stickers, regardless of the message.The very low tree on the Jive has been removed. Lower Llama has started featuring daily very fresh black bear scat. I recommend singing country songs. I do, and don't see people or bears.
Rabbit Creek Valley
Friday Jun 14 by Bear
Anyone have data on the Rabbit Lake trail? Still snow or not?
Reed lakes
Friday Jun 14 by andrew
Lost toddler patagonia fleece jacket blue and white. The3880@gmail.com.
Bird to Gird Trail
Thursday Jun 13 by devo
Perfect bluebird day - did Indian to Girdwood Trail RT. Few bikers, no bears or moose.
Rabbit Creek Valley
Monday Jun 10 by Helen
Road to the backside of Flattop and Rabbit Creek is closed during the week before 5pm due to road construction.
Archangel Road
Sunday Jun 9 by redwop
open and in beautiful shape to the bridge
Far North Bicentennial Park
Sunday Jun 9 by TC
Two black bears (what appeared to be a large sow and one second year cub) crossed O'Malley at Homestead Trail Rd into Far North Bicentennial Park. They entered the park at the short link trail by the road culvert just east of the pedestrian bridge. They then followed the Abbott trail east towards the Hillside nordic trail parking lot.
South Fork Eagle River
Friday Jun 7 by Elizabeth
Looking for information on trail conditions to Symphony Lakes
Archangel Road
Thursday Jun 6 by Sandy
Looking for info on Reed Lakes trail. Is Archangel road/trailhead snow free?
McHugh Peak
Sunday Jun 2 by devo
Did McHugh Peak - accessed from Bear Valley. Scored one of the 5 legal parking spaces in the cul-de-sac - limited public access to Chugach State Park in South Anch. In the clouds most of the time, but a nice hike.
Prospect Heights trailhead
Sunday Jun 2 by Randy
Fresh blood, bear scat, and bones, thought to be of a dog, seen on the gasline maybe 2k from the Prospect Heights trailhead. State park rangers are aware.
Willow Creek
Saturday Jun 1 by paul
Lost and found on Willow CreekI was on the old guardrail trail down to willow creek and found a Stihl chainsaw cover. Someone had cleared a notch through the fallen spruce. I placed the cover on top of the old road gate at trail head.
Paul
Turnagain Arm Trail
Friday May 31 by devo
Did TAT with small group from Rainbow to McHugh. Lots of bear scat, some prints on trail. Signs posted about incident on Thursday w/ aggressive black bear. Boulders that came down from above and across the trail in the 30Nov earthquake - very impressive size, splintered trees, etc. ~Halfway between McHugh and Rainbow.
Portage Creek.
Friday May 31 by Greg V
Floated Portage Creek today. The level was high enough to start at the bridge and float easily through the boulder garden just below by staying river right. No sweepers or other major hazards. We took out near the road and did not float to the highway.
Turnagain Pass
Monday May 27 by Paul
Lyon Creek / Granite Creek water levels up. Had to pull around 3 or 4 trees, much as it was last year.Photos / video
https://youtu.be/G21P7jpU8yc
Girdwood Multi-Use Trails
Saturday May 25 by Bear
This is not a report of the Girdwood trails but of Glacier Creek. (@csmith - might be worth adding the creek as a location.)We tried to packraft it Saturday morning. Downstream of the hand tram about 150 yards there's a sweeper covering nearly all of the water from river right, with a doable sneak on the left about the width of a packraft. However, about 30 yards downstream of that, there's a sweeper from river left covering the entire creek, leaving no option but to get out river right and portage. Nobody in our party had been in a boat yet this season so we chose caution and went home. There was no obvious way to put in below the sweeper from the Crow Creek side; you might be able to cross the tram and hike downstream and put in somewhere. In any case, DON'T run the creek blind from the tram put-in. And note that scouting the sweepers is a pain - if you're at creek level, you have to climb a very steep slope with the help of a tied-off rope someone left there, or else you have to go back to the tram elevation and walk downstream until you can see the creek someplace.
Water level was also low on Saturday morning, to the point of narrowing the creek by about 50%. Might be better now with the gauge up a foot from Saturday morning.
