Here’s the second half of my Alaska trip post. I also got Al’s pictures from the trip and added them into my Picasa album. I had done two previous backcountry float trips in Alaska and never really had issues with Grizzlies. However, they were both caribou hunting trips so they were a little later in [...]
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Alaska Float – Part 2
Posted in family, trips on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Alaska Float – part 1
Posted in family, trips on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After a very long red-eye flight down from Anchorage, I returned home from my trip to Alaska. My dad, brother, and I spent nine days on the Kwethluk River in Western Alaska fishing and had a great time. We have been talking about doing this trip for many years so there was a lot of [...]
Van Vooren Men Heading to the Wilds of Alaska
Posted in family, trips on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a few days my dad, brother and I head up to Alaska for a 10 day float and fishing trip. When Clark and I were kids, our family did a fishing trip up to Ontario, Canada every summer and supplied our family with a stockpile of great memories. For quite a while now we’ve [...]
Eagle Lake
Posted in nature, trips on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling guilty about hardly taking any pictures during my family reunion at Lake Tahoe, I found myself holding the camera in my lap and not sure what to do with it as we made the drive back back to Oregon. Along a very quiet stretch of Highway 139 north of Susanville, we saw this rain [...]
Liljegren Cousin Reunion 2011 – Lake Tahoe
Posted in family, trips on July 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
4th of July 2011 marked the occasion for another Liljegren Cousin reunion – this time in the Lake Tahoe area. For those not familiar with this tradition from my family, every three years my Mom’s cousins get together for a reunion. In 2008 – the first time Sarah joined the festivities – we were in [...]
