Skyline Trail

It dawned on us that we've already burned thru 40% of our time here on the Kenai Peninsula. Less polishing the porcelain and more time hiking and exploring I'd say. To that end a group of us decided to hike the Skyline Trail off the north side of the Sterling Highway way back up the road almost to Coopers Landing.

For our first real hike here we picked a doozy. Only one mile in length, but 1,800 feet of vertical - I kid you not.  We scrambled over rocks, roots, ledges and spooked off a momma black bear and her cub to get ourselves a grand view before the rain caught up with us. Here is a link to a nice newspaper article about hiking the trail in the fall.

Joyce on an 'easy' section of the trail.

The Kenai Range behind Jean and Skilak Lakes

Chocolate Lilies

 Sue, Shadow, Joyce, Gene, Lin, and Rich.