USA Alaska June 2012

Photos of Mendenhall Glacier and bear on Nugget Creek from our hike 20 June.

I did try the wordpress website then decided to continue to use blogger but maybe not as often!


From our news:
June wettest on record for Juneau
It was a record wet June in Juneau.

That's the word from Meteorologist Pete Boyd in the Juneau Forecast Office.

He says the total rainfall for the month was a whopping 6.69 inches which is 3.45 inches above normal.

June breaks the previous record of 6.22 inches set in 1996.

The National Weather Service has kept records at Juneau's airport since 1943.

The most precipitation for a 24 hour period was 1.82 inches on June 27.

The forecaster says there were only two days in June that did not receive measurable precipitation.

After a cold May, temperatures finally reached into the 60's on June 4th for a few days.

There was a three day span from the 22nd to the 24th of high temperatures ranging from 77 to 82 degrees.

Even with those days, the average high temperature for June was only 57.5 which is 4.7 degrees below normal.

There was one record broken for the low daily maximum temperature. The high on the 14th was only 48 degrees. The previous record for that date  set in 1949 was 50 degrees.

Low temperatures were just 1.1 degrees below average at 45.8 degrees.

The average daily temperature was 51.7, 2.9 degrees below normal.

The winds for June were primarily out of the southeast at an average speed of 6.7 miles per hour.

The highest wind of the month came on the 24th with a peak speed of 37 miles per hour from the southeast. It hit 30 miles per hour out of the southeast on the 21st.

The winds were primarily out of the southeast at an average speed of 6.7 miles hour.
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30 June 2012 Saturday
Hike in the rain at the Eaglecrest ski area....but too much snow on trail (and heaps of fog) to make it to the top....where is all the sun that we had last summer?


27 June 2012 Wednesday
Hike in the rain to Dan Moller cabin at about 1800 feet and still snow on the trail!


25 June 2012 Monday
The rains have returned with heavy fog....actually a bit refreshing after the hot and sunny days!


24 June 2012 Sunday 
More sunshine so spent time cleaning out my van...I have been in Juneau for two months now and have been too busy hiking and enjoying time with my friends....now I must make time to get ready to be on the road again (hopefully by August)! I borrowed a rug cleaner to finally get rid of that Mexican dust!


23 June 2012 Saturday (Juneau Alaska)
Sunshine and close to 80 degrees....what a surprise! I gave the hike a miss today to take a free boat ride out to Spuhn Island (formerly a fox farm) for free lunch and tour....a local couple bought the island (about 160 acres) nine years ago and subdivided part of it into 2 acre parcels (38 of them) for resale (but no purchase by me!).

20 June 2012 Wednesday
I am hike leader today and the sun is trying to stay out so called the East Glacier Trail (near the Mendenhall Glacier) which we continued on to Vista Creek via the Nugget Creek trail (about 8 miles total).....a very good day and even saw bear and porcupine!

13 June 2012 Wednesday
The Wednesday hike is Perseverance Trail to Granite Basin....

 
10 June 2012 Sunday ... a rainy day
Morning work for the visitor's bureau at the kiosk downtown, greeting tourists off the cruise ships.


9 June 2012 Saturday ... a sunny day
The Saturday hike was to Point Bridget State Park to Cowee cabin and the water then via Cedar Lake to Campers Cove for lunch at the cabin on the water then back through the woods for about 7 mile hike. Then a potluck at Eagle Beach shelter to celebrate Carolyn Gould's 70th birthday.