 Looking down on Anchorage from Arctic Valley Rd.
|  This moose is having a midnight snack on wild flowers.
|  Anchorage from the army base.
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 Flat Top Mountain
|  Matt and Matthew going up Flat Top Mountain
|  Half way up
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 On top of Flat Top Mountain. It was very, very windy.
|  Going back down. This was July 4, and there were a lot of people climbing the mountain.
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 In one of the local parks
|  Lisa, Erica, and Matt
|  Matthew
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 Eklutna Lake
|  Eklutna Lake
|  Kayakers
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 Lisa, showing the kids how to skip a stone on Lake Eklutna
|  This was taken from the parking lot of a rest area on the way to our charter fishing trip
|  This was our boat. You can see the ladder we used to climb aboard.
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 These huge tractors launch the boats in the water. The boat is on its trailer and they hitch to it and back us about 75 feet, or more, into the water until the boat floats off the trailer.
|  Let me tell you ... bringing these bad boys in is no easy task. The good looking guy is our boat captain, Mike.
|  This is Mount Redoubt which erupted several times in March 2009. It was the constant, and beautiful, backdrop to our halibut fishing trip.
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 Pulling into shore, waiting on the tractor to load us on our boat trailer and tow us to shore
|  Towing us out of the water
|  This is one of the tractors pulling a small boat ashore.
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 Halibut. The other side of the fish is brown with both eyes on the same side, like a flounder.
|  I was wiped out/tired after the trip. Matt is steadying me.
|  These are the filets off just one of our halibuts. The tiny piece you can see is from below the eye and is supposed to be the best part of the fish.
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 While shopping at an REI store in Anchorage, we ran across a young man who has lived in this old Volvo for over six years. There was duct tape all over the car and also all over the guys pants.
|  Babushka, Erica, and Lisa following Matt to Humpy's restaurant in Anchorage.
|  Grandpa and Erica
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