Recreation

New images of Haines and Juneau, Alaska - Summer 2011

New images of Haines and Juneau, Alaska – Summer 2011

While traveling to and from Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska this summer, I spent just a few days in Haines and Juneau. The four and a half hour ferry trip up the Lynn Canal to Haines on the Alaska Marine Highway System M/V Matanuska was spectacular due to the unusually warm and [...]

Wild whitewater action on the Gauley River during Gauley Fest

Wild whitewater action on the Gauley River during Gauley Fest

For six consecutive weekends every fall in West Virginia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases an incredible volume of water out of the Summersville Dam on the Gauley River. These timed releases turn the Gauley River, located in the scenic Gauley River National Recreation Area, into one of the premier whitewater rivers in the [...]