Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Blueberries are small and green. Lots of nice starflower and huge ferns.
June 11
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Blueberries flowering and/or small green berries. Currants flowering. Heavy pollen all over.
October 16
Hatcher Pass: People still picking blueberries.
September 30
Girdwood: Blueberries are still good, people picking.
September 25
Hatcher Pass: People picking blueberries, cranberries, crowberries.
August 20
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked blueberries during Blueberry Festival.
August 18
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked highbush cranberry in spots the berries weren’t wrecked. Not very many berries per cluster. Blueberries perfect. Crowberries perfect, very big and sweet this year. Red bearberry perfect. Lowbush cranberries red and fat but crispy, not ripe. Still lots of weird mushrooms everywhere.
August 16
Mat-Su: Blueberries are being picked all over the Valley and Anchorage. Rosehips and watermelon berry, and highbush cranberry are all ripe.
August 14
Northern Fruits U-Pick, Palmer: Picked (domesticated) black currants and apples. Early for apples.
July 3
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked red currants, ready and nice. Some blueberries ready but mostly too green, look good. Some red bearberries ready. Crowberries look ripe but aren’t. Raspberry, lowbush/highbush cranberry all have green berries. Nagoonberry still flowering.