Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants flowering.
April 26
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
September 9
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of red bearberry and lowbush cranberry. Blueberries are past picking. Tons of bunchberries. Birch leaves are very golden, pretty all over town.
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.
June 18
Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Highbush cranberries have big green berries. Record heat and “extreme” fire danger level.
June 1
Big Lake: Arctic starflower are blooming like crazy everywhere. They’re especially good this year. Lots of dogwood too. Cloudberries are flowering still. Many roses blooming. It’s been hot and dry.
May 12
Talkeetna: Fiddlehead ferns are ready.
May 3
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
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.
Alaska Berry Bog 