Guest Blogger Keck SEAK25: We bookended our time in Alaska with hiking, tree coring, and fish consumption in Juneau.
Starting off strong with a hike to see Herbert Glacier.
We were lucky enough to stay at the University of Alaska Southeast’s housing right on Auke Lake. The daily dips and wades that happened here will be dearly missed!
To cap off the first portion of our time in Alaska before heading to Angoon, the group hiked up Mt. Roberts.
Once we returned from Angoon the group split up to enjoy a day off. Lynnsey, Lev, Landon and Izzy enjoyed 360 views at the top of Mt. Juneau. Dexter and Nick caught rockfish and halibut (not pictured, but thoroughly enjoyed) at Tee Harbor.
The team then got creative on a hike up to Salmon Creek Reservoir.
Finally, we spent a beautiful last day in Alaska taking Mountain Hemlock cores at Mt. McGinnis (the MT site) overlooking the Mendenhall glacier. The MT tree ring site is a classic published by the Wooster Tree Ring Lab and many others – the group will update the efforts of Gordon Jacoby, Nicole Davi and Greg Wiles who originally sampled the site in 1997.
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