Mt. Roberts on a sunny day

Today is our last day off together for a bit. I start my new job on Monday, and Steve's schedule is always a bit weird...so we went for a hike up (partway up) Mt. Roberts. I don't know how much elevation we gained, but we went past where the tramway ends on top, and then a bit higher to a place you can see north and south along the Gastineau Channel. It was a gorgeous sunny day, but man are we tired now! It was about 6 miles round trip, and maybe 1200 feet or so of elevation gain. The summit of Mt. Roberts is another 3 miles (one way) and 1600 feet elevation up the trail, more than I wanted to hike today!

Looking north(ish). Douglas Island is across the bridge, downtown Juneau is on 'this' side of the bridge, in the upper right of the picture is the airport in that flat area. The mountains in the far distance (top right) are the Chilkats.

Looking south along Gastineau Channel. The mountain here is really steep and avalanches are common in winter. From Douglas Island you can see the waterfalls that run down the whole face of the mountain...pretty cool.

Steve, looking quite handsome. : )

 Me, looking a bit windblown : )

Soooo...we moved.

Oh hey there! Things have been a bit busy lately.  Soooo, we moved to Juneau. Again.  I got a new job, and Steve is back at his old job. Things are good. We're working on solidifying a place to live, but in the mean time we are house- and dog sitting. The trip up was beautiful, as always. We loaded all our stuff into a shipping container this time (including the motorcycle; Steve's building the frame for it in the pic below), and put it on the barge. Then we (and the truck) hopped the ferry for the 58-hour trip north.

The weather for the trip was pretty spectacular, especially the sunset on the first night as we left Bellingham.

I love  the way the sunset was lighting up the wake of the ferry. I kinda want to frame this and hang it on a wall.

The ferry was only ~1/3 to 1/2 full. There were a lot of retired people making the trip just as a sight-seeing trip, like we did when we went to Dutch Harbor and back on the Tustumena in 2014. We stopped in Ketchikan (below, that's our ferry, the Columbia), then in Wrangell and Petersburg.  If you ever take this trip, I recommend the other vessel, the Kennicott; it's bigger and nicer and has better food. It also has a forward facing outdoor deck (good for whale watching) and more variety in room options if that's your thing.

Wrangell, AK:

 Approaching Petersburg at sunset:

We have a friend living in Petersburg, so she met us at the ferry dock with her car then gave us a quick tour around town. It's a super cute little town (~3000 people), and fairly spread out.

There's a strong Norwegian heritage in the town too, this is the Sons of Norway building and replica Viking ship.

And really, we had such gorgeous weather almost every day, except for a bit of rain the first morning and some big rolling waves that made a lot of people on the boat sea sick while we crossed Queen Charlotte Sound (even Steve and I got a bit queasy!).