Tanana River, Nenana: Breakup day. Nenana Ice Classic tripod clock stopped at 00:21 AKDT.
April 4
Fairbanks: End of seasonal snow cover.
November 9
Fairbanks: Establishment of seasonal snow cover.
October 1
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush cranberry and some rosehips.
September 9
Fairbanks: First freeze.
August 25
Farm Loop, Palmer: Picked very ripe watermelon berries and rosehips. Highbush cranberry are very nice this year. Still tart.
August 22
Ester Dome, Ester: Red bearberry is ripe and good. Very nice raspberries.
August 18
UAF, Fairbanks: Trailing raspberry berries on trails. Some ripe blueberries. Few crowberries, but ripe. Bunchberries great and tons of them. Lowbush cranberries half ripe and crispy. Highbush cranberries red and nice, still tart.
August 14
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked some ripe highbush cranberry, and good raspberries and rosehips.
August 8
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of great (domesticated) raspberries and also elderberry. A whole bunch of white spruce in the Mat-Su are spruce-beetle-killed or infested.