Reply #21: is that a moose? I have been to Alaska twice and was as far [View All]

[barb162]

north as Denali. Both times in late June/early July. Gorgeous state. Once driving back to Anchorage on some deserted road, we thought we saw a horse so we slowed down. Then we decided it was maybe a moose. We were right next to its rear end and it didn't bother moving over or running away. So we kept looking at it and thinking well what the hell is that thing, a small horse or a female moose or what? I am from Chicago so don't expect a lot in identifying animals for anything other than cats from dogs from ferrets, okay? But I think it was in fact a moose. The moose just kept his or her rear end toward us the entire time we watched it.

How many hours of light are you having right now? I remember losing all sense of time when I was in Alaska. Plus the kids would be out playing in the streets at 1:00AM and I remember touring glaciers at 1 or 2 am. Amazing beautiful country.

I bet it's hard to start the cars in this kind of cold. Do you use those car heater things...whatever they are called.