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Jennifer Searls

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Seasons

August 31, 2016

Hiking Mt. Baldy – Chugach Mountains

Alaska, hiking, Seasons

After 3 weeks of August rain, the sun finally came out! We spent the gift on a hike up Mt. Baldy on Sunday. We’d been there once before as a family – in fact, Baldy was our first Alaska mountain hike. On July 14, 2013 I wrote a Google+ post   that went like this: Yesterday we hiked up …

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August 11, 2014

Kuplink! Kuplank! Kuplunk! Blueberries in Arctic Valley

Alaska, Seasons

One day, Little Sal went with her mother to Blueberry Hill to pick blueberries….. One day, the Searls boys went with their parents to Arctic Valley to pick blueberries….. We hiked here as a family last September and made plans to return during blueberry season.  This is that season! I’ve heard that people hold their favorite berry patches close and don’t share their secrets …

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July 31, 2014

Record Setting Weather. Again.

Seasons

With 3.23 inches of rain this past month we made #10 in the list of Anchorage’s top 10 wettest Julys on record. (Average = 1.83 inches) We ate soup for dinner Monday night. It wasn’t our first soup dinner this month. David talked about how cold it was working out in the field as it poured down rain …

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July 19, 2014

Fireweed: Our Summer Clock

Alaska, Seasons

The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colors, lights, and shades; these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.  This. Quoted from an old gravestone in Cumberland, England, and used as the final text in Frank C. Craighead, Jr’s book For Everything There Is A Season: The …

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February 11, 2013

Joyfully Living in Maximum Slope

Alaska, Seasons

In the seemingly endless grey days of a typical Portland winter I struggle with seasonal affective disorder and a few winters ago I began using  this lamp to help me cope. Needless to say, when we moved to Alaska I packed it with an anxious eye toward the infamous short days ahead. In the heart of our …

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