Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of very nice watermelon berries and red currants. Also domesticated raspberries are doing awesome.
June 27
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked cloudberries, salmonberries and blueberries. (Not sure if early blueberries or alaska blueberries.)
June 23
Swamp land, Big Lake: Nice red currants, a few ripe and most half ripe. Noticed fireweed is blooming around.
June 21
Marsh land, Big Lake: Cloudberries almost ready.
May 31
Big Lake: Wild rose has been flowering for awhile. Also nice dogwood and starflower.
May 12
Turnagain Arm Trail, Anchorage: Serviceberry, watermelon berry, highbush cranberry, baneberry flowering. Lots of blooming wildflowers of white, yellow, and purple (like jacob’s ladder.)
April 17
Mat-Su: Greenup happened this weekend.
August 13
Meadow Lakes: Very good domesticated raspberries right now.
August 2
Tustumena Lake, Kasilof: Picked lots of crowberries. Lowbush cranberry half ripe.
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.