Woods, Wasilla: Picked lots more watermelon berries from powerline trails. Some getting overripe.
August 3
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked highbush cranberries (still tart) before the rain wrecks them. Also picked some ripe rosehips.
August 25
Farm Loop, Palmer: Picked very ripe watermelon berries and rosehips. Highbush cranberry are very nice this year. Still tart.
August 22
Ester Dome, Ester: Red bearberry is ripe and good. Very nice raspberries.
August 18
UAF, Fairbanks: Trailing raspberry berries on trails. Some ripe blueberries. Few crowberries, but ripe. Bunchberries great and tons of them. Lowbush cranberries half ripe and crispy. Highbush cranberries red and nice, still tart.
August 14
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked some ripe highbush cranberry, and good raspberries and rosehips.
August 8
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of great (domesticated) raspberries and also elderberry. A whole bunch of white spruce in the Mat-Su are spruce-beetle-killed or infested.
August 13
Swamp land, Big Lake: Really good watermelon berries.
August 10
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked some blueberries, some ready, lots not ready yet. Picked great salmonberries. Lots ripe, some almost ripe.
August 7
Hatcher Pass, Willow: Crowberry have some green, some ripe berries.