Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked blueberries in subalpine areas. Very sweet, and many berries have dropped off plants now, though they’re not squishy yet.
September 23
Woods, Wasilla: Picked good highbush cranberries. Found a patch of quite a few red currants still very nice, not squished.
September 19
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked lots of dwarf blueberries above the treeline. Leaves are dropping revealing many accessable berries. Also picked bog blues and some wrinkly early blues. The berries are all pretty sweet and good at this point.
September 16
Big Lake: For last three days picked lots more lowbush and bog cranberries by forests, swamps, and lakes. Found a few patches of blueberries still hanging on.
September 13
North Shore, Big Lake: Picked bog cranberries and lowbush cranberries. Both types are big and fat this year.
Fairbanks: First freeze.
September 12
Little Susitna River, Houston: Picked lowbush cranberries, basically ready to pick but could ripen more. They are having a great year, they’re huge everywhere.
September 9
Woods, Ester: Cranberry picked, both lowbush and highbush, both types nice. Everything is quite saturated from rain. Also found good crowberries and strawberry spinach. Red bearberries are past (I found many this time in Sept. before.)
September 6
Hatcher Pass, Willow and Fishhook: Picked berries for last several days in different alpine and subalpine areas. Blueberries of all 3 kinds ready now and some getting really tasty. (In some spots earlier the early blues were ripe while the dwarf blues were completely green.) Crowberries perfect. Alpine highbush cranberry patches red and crispy.
August 28
Talkeetna Lakes, Talkeetna: Picked lots of very nice forest blueberries, at the perfect ripeness level. Also picked a couple bog blueberries here and there. The highbush cranberries were good, and actually there were quite a few nice red currants too.
August 27
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked lots of blueberries in alpine areas. Nice and ripe berries and plants happy from rainy weather.
Alaska Berry Bog 