Swamp land, Houston: Picked perfect blueberries. Perfect timberberries and bunchberries all around, super happy this year (actually tasty). Lowbush cranberry (half red/green) look super good and plentiful this year.
July 20
Kincaid Park, Anchorage: Lots of raspberries, elderberries, and watermelon berries ready for picking.
July 18
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, Wasilla: Lots of perfect nagoonberries! Also ripe black currants and a few good red currants still. Highbush cranberry early red.
July 15
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Black bearberries half green/blue. Crowberries have small green berries in some areas. Lowbush cranberry flowering. Nagoonberries flowering. Lots of blooming wildflowers in general, pink, yellow etc. Lots of white heather flowers, king’s crown.
July 12
Swamp land, Big Lake: Lots of (green) bog and lowbush cranberries, some starting to redden. Crowberries are tart but pickable. Most cloudberries are half ripe. Blueberries have some green some ripe.
July 11
Marsh land, Big Lake: Lots of bog cranberries this year! Bright green and big. Some blueberries ready, lots still green. Berries seem big/juicy this year.
July 6
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, Wasilla: Lots of perfect red currants. Black currants half green/blue with a few ripe. Some perfect nagoonberries, others not ripe yet. Green raspberries.
July 3
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Highbush cranberries have big green berries. Serviceberries are half green/blue.
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.