Losing Track

I'm starting to lose track of what I have and haven't blogged about, so I'm gonna get some of our smaller excursions out of the way tonight. Above are a few pictures I took when we went and walked on the "Brotherhood Trail." I'm not really sure what its real name is. This spot is a hot spot for tour buses as it follows the Mendenhall River. Its located right in the middle of the valley. (You can see the river going out to the channel on the map above.) Its also a hotspot for mosquitoes, and we forgot our bug spray that day. We won't be going back there without out. Sydney however is learning to be quite the little walker. We pushed her a mile in on this trail, and she walked almost the whole way out. Mostly at a relatively good pace. We could see the parking lot when she finally sat down and and said she "need to go night night." Haha, literally that's what she said. Andy says one of his favorite things about Juneau is that there is a ton of stuff to do, its not far away, and its all free. There are lots of flat and some even paved trails as you can see that are very accessible and still beautiful. This particular trail has three parallel trails one paved, one wide and dirt for horses, and one more wooded for real hiking.

One a rainy day we drove up into the canyon behind downtown Juneau and to a trail Gina told me about called "Flume Trail." Apparently it used to be just that. A flume where they made electricity off the adjacent "Gold Creek." (I don't really know what a flume is.. if you do my explanation probably sounded ridiculous.) Anyway, I find it funny how here lots of bodies of water are called creeks and streams and when you get there they are like raging rivers of death. Andy keeps telling me it might just be the time of year, but I think whoever is naming places around here is seriously confused about the difference between a stream, creek, and a river. As you can tell since its the top of an old flume, the path is completely flat, raised, and made of wood. Its not very long but there are great views up the mountains and lots of little waterfalls for Sydney to play in along the way. There were also tons of side trails, but we haven't got our bear spray yet, or a gun,  and I'm pretty nervous to go anywhere off main trails because of the bears.