Sheep Mountain - contains minerals that sheep enjoy
After enjoying our time at Hatcher Pass Road area we resupplied in Palmer and headed east on the Glenn Hwy. It was our 41st wedding anniversary and we found a nice quiet campground to enjoy the night at.
Our quiet campsite that we spent our 41st Wedding Anniversary at
I had made reservations to camp at Sheep Mountain Lodge further east in the Matanuska Valley for the next night. They have a small restaurant at the lodge that we enjoyed a nice meal at to celebrate our 41st. The lodge had beautiful scenery all around it, as well as several hiking trails adjacent to them. The place had just been sold to a new family. The previous family had been involved in racing in the Iditarod sled dog race to Nome. While enjoying our anniversary meal we met another couple who had flown over to Anchorage from Bethel (where they live) to drive out to stay at the lodge a couple of days to celebrate their anniversary too. It was fun to learn about life in the Bethel area which is accessible only by plane or boat for the most part. (maybe snow-machines in the winter)
While hiking the trails we noted that there were an abundance of wild blueberries.
This 13 year old former sled dog had been in 5 or 6 Iditarods...she was blind in missing an ear
A few of the cabins behind our campsites
Joyce enjoying one of the trails
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