Quartz Creek and Points North

For our final weekend with Tracy and Jeff, we met up with a bunch of their friends at a campground at Quartz Creek in the Chugach National Forest.  This is a beautiful site which is located just about 8 miles to the West of the Seward Highway along the route we previously took on our trip to Homer.   This was our first experience in our 8 years in the RV with 'dry' camping (no electricity, no water, no sewer) for more than one night. Fortunately, all went well.  Our main concern was with our house batteries and I would not try this for more than 2 nights.

The main event of the weekend was a 50th birthday party for one of the crew and we were fortunate to have a day of perfect weather for the event.

These photos also include our first views of Mount McKinley that we spotted as we traveled North out of Anchorage toward the Denali area where we will be spending the next 6 weeks.  McKinley, at over 20,000 feet, is easily quite visible and imposing from over 100 miles away.  There will be more on all of this in some future blogs.