I thought I might give some of my blog readers some perspective of where Ted Stevens and his party’s plane went down in Alaska. My son Grant lived in Dillingham Alaska for 4 years before moving into Anchorage, and then on to Colorado. Dillingham is even by Alaska standards, considered remote-you can only get there by plane or boat (when there is no ice). In 2005, my wife and I made the first of our 3 trips to Alaska to visit with Grant and our other son Eric, who was also in Dillingham at the time. On this trip, we visited them in Dillingham for the first part of the stay. I’m posting some pics of the area so you can get a perspective of just where this happened.
Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport and our plane to Dillingham. Notice the shorts on the airline employee-it's February folks and not a warm spell either.
The view from the plane on the way to Dillingham. Notice no superhighway, so you can't get there from here other than by air!
Dillingham airport terminal. They had shoveled a nice path for us.
The view of downtown Dillingham from our B&B, Thai Inn
Dillingham Harbor, remember folks, this is February.
Some of the fishing fleet?
Fisherman's Cafe that's sinking into the bay.
The straight road below, is Aleknagik Lake Road
Here we are at Aleknagik. Our tour boat arrived just in-time before the lake froze.
This is Grant and his doggy Saranac on Snake Lake Mountain w/Snake Lake in the background. The plane went down up that way and to the right where Aleknagik Lake is.
Grant doing some spring skiing with either Lake Aleknagik or Snake Lake in the background.
And that’s it for this trip.
