It’s Pioneer Day back home. We hope all of you have fun watching parades and celebrating this weekend. Our day got off to a slow start but around 4:00 PM we took a drive intended to go to Hope, a tiny old mining town on the south side of the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet. On the way we took the Skilak Lake road off from highway #1 between Sterling and Cooper Landing which turned out to be a very scenic and interesting drive. The road was unpaved but well worth the washboards and dust from passing vehicles. Early on the Skilak Lake road we saw a huge cow moose. Skilak Lake is very large with two very picturesque campgrounds on the lake shore about 4 miles apart on spur roads. In addition there were a number of unnamed lakes and then Hidden Lake with another nice campground. There were also plenty of rugged snow-capped mountains in the background for pictures. Some Sockeye salmon pass through Skilak Lake from the Kenai River and then up Hidden Creek to Hidden Lake. We stopped to look for fish in the creek where the creek passes under the road but did not get to see any. But while looking at the creek a bear crossed the road for a little excitement. Our trip totaled 88 miles and we returned at about 7:30 PM.
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