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>>40660697
Sorry, at work! I've got some time now.
For our honeymoon my wife and I spent two weeks driving around Alaska, seeing various things she'd never seen and I'd never seen, etc etc. The last day/night of the trip we stopped at a spot on the Richardson highway, the rainbow mountains. Hidden back there is one of my favorite places in the whole state, you go up a rocky gully and climb about 1500-2000 feet up, and at the top there's a pass through the mountains that forms a bowl. It's sheltered from the wind, has decent topsoil accretion, a profusion of ground squirrels, some rare and endangered flowers, and beyond all that it /feels/ calm and peaceful. If I had to guess I'd say it's an actual place of power, either channeling energy from the mountains or a ley-line passing through, hard to say.
Wife's never been to THE spot, only a failed attempt a few years back (don't play with avalanches kids), so we're giving it another go. We park the truck and bushwhack over to the 'trail' head, and it already feels a little off, somebody has been illegally baiting for bears very recently. The only bears in this area are huge monster mountain grizzlies, very cool. We get to the gully, start climbing, and it's just as lovely as ever, lots of great rocks. The gully cuts through about 300 million years of rock strata, there's a profusion of different rocks, never know what you might find - my cousin found some jade once (there's an entire mountain face/scree slope of sea bed fossils hidden further back there, for example).
We get to the top, spend a couple hours in the spot. It's just as peaceful and lovely as I remember, really puts the body and soul at ease. It starts getting late and we figure, well, time to climb back down and find some lunch. We're just getting out of the bowl and back into the gully when I find two really neat rocks of a type I've not seen before in this gully. They look like they've been placed there (picrel)
>>40660697
Sorry, at work! I've got some time now.
For our honeymoon my wife and I spent two weeks driving around Alaska, seeing various things she'd never seen and I'd never seen, etc etc. The last day/night of the trip we stopped at a spot on the Richardson highway, the rainbow mountains. Hidden back there is one of my favorite places in the whole state, you go up a rocky gully and climb about 1500-2000 feet up, and at the top there's a pass through the mountains that forms a bowl. It's sheltered from the wind, has decent topsoil accretion, a profusion of ground squirrels, some rare and endangered flowers, and beyond all that it /feels/ calm and peaceful. If I had to guess I'd say it's an actual place of power, either channeling energy from the mountains or a ley-line passing through, hard to say.
Wife's never been to THE spot, only a failed attempt a few years back (don't play with avalanches kids), so we're giving it another go. We park the truck and bushwhack over to the 'trail' head, and it already feels a little off, somebody has been illegally baiting for bears very recently. The only bears in this area are huge monster mountain grizzlies, very cool. We get to the gully, start climbing, and it's just as lovely as ever, lots of great rocks. The gully cuts through about 300 million years of rock strata, there's a profusion of different rocks, never know what you might find - my cousin found some jade once (there's an entire mountain face/scree slope of sea bed fossils hidden further back there, for example).
We get to the top, spend a couple hours in the spot. It's just as peaceful and lovely as I remember, really puts the body and soul at ease. It starts getting late and we figure, well, time to climb back down and find some lunch. We're just getting out of the bowl and back into the gully when I find two really neat rocks of a type I've not seen before in this gully. They look like they've been placed there (picrel)
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