Marsh land, Big Lake: Blueberries green, blue, and the blue ones taste green.
July 12
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Quite a few strawberries, small. Good flavour but lots are too far gone. Some plants still flowering.
July 6
Fairbanks: 87°F highest temperature of the year.
July 24
Murphy Dome, Fairbanks: Blueberries are perfect. Big and juicy. A few still not ripe. Picked a ton, with some crowberries too. Crowberry and black bearberry are ripe. Lowbush cranberries are two thirds ripe and there are lots.
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 14
Big Lake: The fireweed is blooming, and is extremely tall and lush this year.
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.
Alaska Berry Bog 