Hiking South Fork Canyon

South Fork overlook into Anchorage

Eric with the dogs

Hiland Road Eagle River, AK

It was a nice evening, so we took the dogs to South Fork Canyon, about 7 miles up Hiland Rd. in Eagle River. We saw a black bear when we were here on Thursday night. It was about 50 feet from us! We decided to bring along the bear spray, and I put bear bells on the dog leash. We did see some bear skat along the trail. I still get pretty nervous up in the mountains.

The trail overlooks the Anchorage bowl - which is pretty neat. If we hiked down the other side of the mountain, we would be at Arctic Valley Ski resort.

No bears tonight -just some moose, and that's fine with me!