Lucile Creek, Big Lake: Lots of lowbush cranberries half ripe. Picked a few nagoonberries. Lots of bunchberries.
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.
July 22
Kincaid Park, Anchorage: Lots of ripe raspberries. Ripe rose hips. Some ripe red currants. Lots of elderberries everywhere.
July 12
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Quite a few strawberries, small. Good flavour but lots are too far gone. Some plants still flowering.
September 4
Fairbanks: Beautiful amanita mushrooms everywhere. Highbush cranberries are ripe.
September 2
Carlo Creek, Cantwell/Denali Park: On trails into alpine areas. Some of the best red currants I’ve seen, growing like grapes in a vineyard. Ripe and delicious and incredibly plentiful. Many ripe blueberries, juicy but not as tasty as the Fairbanks berries. Many ripe crowberries and other alpine berries.
August 16
Murphy Dome, Goldstream: Blueberries galore, some too far gone. Picked blue along with very good crowberries. Lowbush cranberries all over, not ripe yet. Blueberries and raspberries still good on Ester Dome.
August 9
Quartz Lake, Delta Junction: Picked black currants, red currants, raspberries, coltsfoot, highbush cranberry. Other berries ripe.
Alaska Berry Bog 