Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked some highbush blueberries (early and alaska.) Some ready, others not ripe. Not a great year. Too late for salmonberries. Many trailing raspberries, some ripe and others overripe and mushed.
August 7
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked ripe crowberries (perfect) and a few blueberries. Lowbush cranberries are about half ripe. Lowbush cran in many spots in the Valley don’t seem to have many berries this year compared to other years. Bog cranberries seem about half ripe.
July 31
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked blueberries in alpine areas. Many still green, some ripe.
July 26
Marsh land, Moose Pass: Picked ripe lakeside blueberries.
July 21
Marsh land, Big Lake: Cloudberries are perfect for picking, good flavor. Blueberries ready too. Plants all have happy leaves but not many berries per plant. Dry conditions, with record breaking heat earlier in July for Southcentral.
May 20
Marsh land, Big Lake: Blueberry flowers are still turning into small green berries.
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.
July 23
Murphy Dome, Fairbanks: Blueberries are still green. Paltry this year. Also few lowbush cranberries. Bunchberries just changing from flower to berry. Crowberries are ripe and okay.
August 10
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked some blueberries, some ready, lots not ready yet. Picked great salmonberries. Lots ripe, some almost ripe.
August 7
Hatcher Pass, Willow: Crowberry have some green, some ripe berries.
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