Ester Dome: Ester: Lots of good raspberries right now. Picked tons. Blueberries have been great everywhere; Murphy Dome, Angel Rocks, etc. but it’s too hot out. Highbush cranberry is red and juicy but still tart.
July 22
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked a ton of mostly blue, also crowberries, raspberries, red bearberry, nagoonberries. Got a few cloudberries too but they’re overripe and squishy.
July 21
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked tons of blueberries. Many ripe some still not ripe. Also lots of nagoonberries! Lots of lowbush cranberry this year, not ripe yet. Quite a few ripe raspberries. Saw ripe crowberries, cloudberries, timberberries, soapberries.
July 17
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Picked blueberries, cloudberries, and nagoonberries. Black currants are half ripe. Still strawberries in the fields.
July 11
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Picked lots of stawberries, very big this year. Also lots of raspberries. Some blueberries are ready on certain plants. About a third of the cloudberries are ripe.
July 6
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Picked lots of strawberries.
September 12
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of lowbush cranberries.
September 8
Murphy Dome, Fairbanks: Picked lowbush cranberry, crowberry, and black bearberry. Too late for blues but picked one single berry…
September 2
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush.
August 30
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush.
Alaska Berry Bog 