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The Winner Creek Trail is part of Iditarod Trail
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Today the weather was looking a little friendlier, so it was time to take the hike that had been on our radar for many months. A “must do”.
The Winner Creek trail is known for a hand trolley that you need to take to cross a rapidly flowing river. How cool is that?
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Wipe you feet before you hike? We thought it a bit strange, until we read it was there to prevent spreading invasive weed seeds. A great idea.
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We were all excited as we found the trail at the base of Alyeska Resort. It started out as a wide, well developed crushed stone trail, then turned into dirt pack as we traveled along this 3 mile trail. Shortly after the Winner Creek Gorge came into view we saw the tram.
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Norm pulling tram across gorge
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I was envisioning an old, rickety cable we would have to pull hand-over-hand to get to the other side. What we did find was a newly constructed very safe metal cage with heavy duty cable that hikers helped pulled each other across, 100 feet above the raging river.
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More hills!
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We somehow exited the trail at the wrong spot (the guys were leading) so the men trudged up the road to find the car.
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7 Glacier Restaurants won very many awards
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Today was Dennis’ birthday so to celebrate we went to the very high end restaurant at the top of the mountain. We took the gondola up,and had a great table at the window. The views were wonderful as we had a lovely meal. The general consensus among us was the view was great, the service first class, the presentation of the entrees were an art form.
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This was the prettiest lemon-drop martini!
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Unfortunately the flavor of what was served (other than the rosemary bread with truffle butter) was pretty disappointing for everyone.
After dinner we roamed about the snow on the mountain top
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Just when you think you are safe from large animals at the top of this snowy mountain, we have to watch for unexploded artillery shells? Seriously?
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The view from the restaurant 7 Glaciers at Alyeski Resort
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