Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of very nice watermelon berries and red currants. Also domesticated raspberries are doing awesome.
July 13
Fairbanks: 88°F highest temperature of the year.
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.
July 20
Resurrection Pass Trail, Hope: Lots of red currants, watermelon berries, and trailing raspberries. High and lowbush cranberries are half ripe. Tons of baneberry, blooming purple and white flowers like monkshead, jacob’s ladder, cow parsnip, etc.
July 18
Marsh land, Big Lake: Blueberries are ready to pick.
July 6
Fairbanks: 89°F highest temperature of the year.
July 3
Flattop Mountain trail, Anchorage: Bearberries and crowberries are big and green.
July 31
Fish Creek, Knik: Best watermelon berries I’ve seen. Perfect and everywhere. Lots of plants and many berries per plant. Very tasty.
July 26
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Lots of really good red currants. Very tasty and ripe. Lots of half ripe highbush cranberry. Some nice watermelon berries. Also lots of soapberry and baneberry around. Also rosehips ready.
July 23
Peters Creek: Watermelon berries good, pretty big, but still green on a few plants.
Alaska Berry Bog 